Sentence examples for as a virtual formality from inspiring English sources

When the day began, accounts in many of Israel's newspapers depicted the presidential vote as a virtual formality.

The measure was passed unanimously and will become law when approved by the upper house and President Vladimir Putin, a virtual formality.

The midfielder finished as a virtual passenger.

Think of it as a virtual universe.

His 11th pole in 12 races looks almost as much a formality.

Too often, this stage is viewed as a legal formality.

The flight "competition," according to the military historian Phillip Meilinger, was regarded as a mere formality.

The workers saw the consultants' work as a mere formality and stopped worrying.

And New York's message yesterday was cast more as a bureaucratic formality than an emphatic statement.

At the time, she did not even have a job, and he thought of it as a silly formality.

Crimea has an ethnic Russian majority, and local politicians have already declared the referendum as a mere formality.