Sentence examples for formal act from inspiring English sources

The relinquishment thus made was as effectual as a formal act of cession.

A victory in the war against terrorism can never be registered in a formal act of surrender.

Meanwhile two hands in the middle of the scene are presented in a formal act of supplication.

But last week, Israel's parliament went through the last formal act of closing that historical political divide.

The problem is that if it is in primary legislation then only by formal Act of Parliament can it be changed.

References to the clasp of hands indicate that this was probably regarded as the formal act of commitment and acceptance by the community.

Group concord is effected and maintained through the rites and formal acts of group worship.

The obligations could not, in the New Testament viewpoint, be again defined in legal terms, nor could they be enforced by social power structures, which could deal only with external formal acts, not with the basic springs of behaviour, such as love or hate.

Ritual is, for Rappaport (1999, p. 26) 'the performance of more or less invariant sequences of formal acts and utterances not entirely encoded by the performers'.

It follows that, while that database takes into account the possible presence of multiple measures in a single policy act (e.g., 'umbrella laws', reform packages), no account is taken of the fact that reform counting can create a bias in favour of gradual reform strategies (spread over time, in different formal acts).

Using formal acts of narrative in novels, films, and memoir by black American creatives as a launching point, Commander uncovers prevailing tropes that inform her subsequent [End Page 301] readings of the various geographical sites that aim to facilitate a return to Africa.