The phrase "formal reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to someone's written recommendation or endorsement of a person or business. For example: "John provided me with a formal reference stating that I am a reliable and responsible employee."
From this material, Veldman weaves a piece for six dancers that makes formal reference to passion and suicide, but whose primary concern is the act of seeing.
The commission has used a new parliamentary inquiry into freedom of expression – an inquiry triggered by rolling political controversy about 18C of the RDA – to ask the government for a formal reference to conduct its own free speech inquiry, examining media and internet regulation, intellectual property and defamation laws.
The latter is supposed to be a sufficiently formal reference point for esteeming persons.
The first formal reference to design thinking was made by Peter Rowe in his 1987 book with the same title.
The reference model, called FORMS (FOrmal Reference Model for Self-adaptation), offers a vocabulary that consists of a small number of primitives and a set of relationships among them that delineates the rules of composition.
Nowadays, things are different: we build for false reasons and following short-lived fashions, with an avalanche of technological data and a plethora of ever-changing laws, in the total absence of formal reference points.
But beyond these visual and formal references, the three works share similar ideas and concerns, albeit approached from individual perspectives.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Workflow specifications comprise formal references to a range of packages to be installed without specifying the execution environment.
Although there are no formal references to my cultural roots in my designs, it is this mathematics of the Arab world that I am fascinated by -- the mix of logic and abstraction.
In November 2011, municipal development plans of all 19 Southern-Limburg municipalities were checked to see if they contained formal references to the themes of 'youth' and 'overweight prevention'.
Versatility of representation in BioXSD enables also formal references to resources that are volatile, do not offer stable URIs, or offer data only through a SOAP-service interface.
