The phrase "a formal command" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an authoritative directive that is issued in a structured or official manner.
Example: "The manager issued a formal command to all employees to adhere to the new safety protocols."
Alternatives: "an official directive" or "a structured order".
Not only do most experts agree that such a formal command system is critical, but the federal government has said it will withhold tens of millions of dollars next year in domestic security money if no system is in place by October.
In making the pledge yesterday to adopt formal procedures, officials with both departments and an aide within City Hall acknowledged that they were motivated in large measure by the fact that the federal Department of Homeland Security had said it would not grant money to states and cities in the coming years without a formal command structure for major emergencies.
Control of ADF operations is exercised through a formal command chain headed by the Chief of Joint Operations (CJOPS), who reports directly to the CDF.
Local Demobilization and Reintegration Committees, made up of community leaders and locally-based NGOs, began work this week in Herat province to identify and assess up to 500 eligible children; that is, those children of 18 years or younger who have been attached to a military unit with a formal command structure who wish to benefit from the programme's reintegration opportunities.
An example of a formal command would be: "Look!" In Spanish, the formula is: miro, drop the "-o" = "mir-".
Stay is a more formal command.
A few weeks later, on Nov. 19, 2003, General Sanchez made a surprising decision: he transferred formal command of Abu Ghraib to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade under Colonel Thomas M. Pappas, a 32-year military veteran whose unit, based in Wiesbaden, Germany, had been assigned to the prison as the chief interrogators since it opened.
Days after calling for fresh blood in the top tiers of the Communist regime in Cuba, Raul Castro yesterday took formal command of the party and named an 80-year-old veteran as his deputy, muddying his message of reform and change.
The U.S. retains formal command of all forces, American and South Korean, during a war.
The firm, which is a creator of everything from the first computer mouse to smartphone apps, has no formal command structure.
Marshall's formal command lets him get away with any extreme of sweetness or direness, exercising a painterly voice that spans octaves, from soprano trills to guttural roars.
