Sentence examples for but formalized from inspiring English sources

The Anglo-Saxon system was retained under the Normans but formalized; for example, beginning in the 13th century, case law was recorded to provide uniform precedents.

Besides her gorgeous but formalized bossa novas, whose harmonies and rhythmic devices sound flown in from the late 1950's, there are songs like "Demasiado Blue" and "Inverno," which are almost airborne, freed from the duty of homage.

Progressive muscle relaxation is a basic, but formalized way of relaxing your body without doing much of anything but focusing your attention on different places in your body, and pushing your presence into those places.

The move "has been in the works for 18 months and has been all but formalized since February".

NBC has scheduled a news conference for Monday to make an announcement about its late-night lineup that has been in the works for 18 months and has been all but formalized since February: Jimmy Fallon, the former cast member of "Saturday Night Live," is to be named the third host — after David Letterman and Conan O'Brien — of NBC's "Late Night" talk show.

The pair had been investing in things on the side but formalized it with an actual VC fund.

The all-but-formalized decision to go to the polls was canceled at 2 a.m.

A parallel but less formalized rustic genre produced poetry celebrating life in the countryside.

Tennis officials said there was random testing for drugs in the 1980's, but no formalized standards to include steroids were established until 1990, when the ATP was founded.

The assessment of cultural ecosystem services, in our case landscape aesthetics, is the most commonly investigated but least formalized issue in the scope of the ecosystem services concept.

Noting research by sociologist Jason Owen-Smith, who is now at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, they argue that American-model labs organize work not around a singular authority figure but around formalized "skeptical encounters".