Sentence examples for formal meaning from inspiring English sources

For him, the formal meaning of the constitutional text is neither ambiguous nor pliable.

Usually, it degenerates into repetitive space filling, without variety or formal meaning.

The straw poll carries no formal meaning, delivers no delegates and is technically nothing more than a mock election.

In physics, engineering, and mathematics the term ''state'' has formal meaning, and much of the science of dynamics explores rules and laws governing state transitions.

Amid master classes and seminars, there are daily performances, many of them free, as well as several more formal (meaning not free) concerts.

Semantic annotation of visual models is useful to provide a precise, formal meaning to model elements, thus making them more understandable to people, enabling a deeper analysis of requirements and automated reasoning.

Like "torture," "terror" is a word with both common and formal meanings.

It was Stephen Spender, translator of Schiller, Rilke and Cavafy, who said: "When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little".

That was especially the case for the slang words that tend to have formal meanings but are also used in the slang language to define an alternative meaning.

It said that a preliminary inquiry had become a formal investigation, meaning that Mr. Gabriele had been formally charged, and that he had chosen two lawyers to defend him.

The departure of just one Latvian MEP pulled them below the bar for formal recognition – meaning Ukip would lose about €2m in 2015 alone.