Sentence examples for formal classification from inspiring English sources

Virtually no one disputes S.&P.'s formal classification of Apple, Google and Microsoft as "information technology" companies.

They do not belong to a formal classification group, because they are associated by the absence of a characteristic.

Any one person's labels are messy, inconsistent and partial, and are therefore much less valuable than formal classification systems.

A formal classification of ASICs tends to become a bit fluffy around the edges.

This unrelated, or paraphyletic, nature of the protozoans has caused scientists to abandon the term protozoan in formal classification schemes.

The categories presented in the following sections are based not on a formal classification system but rather on general terms in common use that cover most wetlands.

Information-dense, high-risk fields such as air traffic control have proven that formal classification of errors facilitates recognition and remediation.

And so the French established a formal classification system that would be applied to all wineries — a hierarchy that remains, virtually unchanged, to this day.

As a result of such complicated taxonomic appraisal, the formal classification of Carnivora is in some ways an artificial system set up for the sake of convenience.

It also outlined proposals for a formal classification of exchange-traded products so that only some instruments can be called ETFs.

This was done in order to reflect the clinical situation, in which formal 'classification' criteria frequently are inappropriate and, especially in very early arthritis, may be misleading.