Sentence examples for formal standing from inspiring English sources

Increasingly, these largely anti-capitalist bodies are granted formal standing in the machinery of international government, strongly reinforcing those earlier anti-liberal tendencies.The other new elements, says Mr Henderson, are in the realm of ideas rather than actions.

Although his new arguments have no formal standing, they undermine his previous findings.

The consumer and practitioner panels set up by the executive chairman of the FSA, Howard Davies, to allay concerns, are to be given a formal standing in the bill.

The English names had been used in official publications for years but had not, to date, had any formal standing, he added.

Of course the irony of any theological discussion of same-sex marriage is that it is not a matter in which religious bodies and voices have any formal standing whatsoever.

Daniel Rysak said, "Being a formal dancer, standing on the soles of your feet, you're really bottom-strong.

The revelation was that there was never any formal Politburo standing committee vote.

The choice was also a bit of a fashion risk because it was a dinner jacket paired with unmatched formal trousers, standing in for the traditional tuxedo suiting.

In a meticulously designed Art Deco drawing room, actors dressed in 1930s formal wear are standing around with cocktails to hand, discussing murder.

Few, if any, standing formal institutional coordination mechanisms existed between security organizations and international or state health agencies.

While Kalven and Futterman acknowledge they have no formal legal standing to go beyond what they are calling their "public intervention" in the police shooting, they are hopeful others will heed their call for justice for the teen, who was reportedly a ward of the state with little, if any, family involvement in his upbringing.