The phrase "a formal certification" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an official document or acknowledgment that verifies a certain qualification or standard has been met.
Example: "To apply for the position, you must provide a formal certification of your qualifications."
Alternatives: "an official certification" or "a recognized certification."
James E. McGreevey, below, the governor-elect and a Democrat, once again called for a formal certification of state revenue yesterday, and once again Donald T. DiFrancesco, the acting governor and a Republican, declined to provide it.
Under UK law since the case against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, however, ministers' agreement to extradition requests has been deemed to be largely a matter of a formal certification.
Instead, on the morning of 20 March, Dr John Meehan, a consultant psychiatrist at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, dictates and signs a formal certification stating that Stuart Goddard is suffering from clinical depression and that participation in the tour would place him under extreme mental stress.
Readers of this column by now know the details of the effort to use fraudulent "lawfare" to extort billions from Chevron Corp., for pollution damages most likely caused by an Ecuadorean corporation long after Texaco Petroleum (which Chevron subsequently purchased) had left Ecuador and had obtained a formal certification that all pollution had been remediated.
He does offer the feeble defense that Facebook asked for, and received, a formal certification from the company verifying it deleted the data, but it was clearly insufficient. .
He does offer the feeble defense that Facebook asked for, and received, a formal certification from the company verifying it deleted the data, but it was clearly insufficient.
While the administration provided a classified briefing to leaders of the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees about aspects of the reconciliation talks proposal late last year, it has apparently not yet made any formal certification.
Someday, I expect there will be a more formal certification required, like lawyers and accountants have to pass, to hang out their shingle.
We believe that it is necessary to have a more formal certification procedure of EHR-systems and ePrescribing.
Many of us at Stanford needed no proof that author Robert Pogue Harrison is a chevalier gallant, nonetheless formal certification was given on the mild California evening of October 9 when he was formally made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française, complete with a little green medal pinned to his lapel and a gift of 14th-century spurs.
A priori interest factors were those plausibly associated: the type of institution (university vs. non-university), presence of an intensivist on a daily basis, availability of a dedicated US machine, intensivists' formal certification in critical care, proportion of POCUS-trained intensivists (low vs. high level), and payoff.
