The word "formalities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the specific procedures or customs that are followed or observed in an official situation, often to make something legally binding. For example, "Before the wedding could take place, the couple had to fulfill all of the necessary formalities, such as signing the marriage license."
Both the LOC and SAFA adhered to the necessary formalities for the budgetary amendment.
And countries have become much more welcoming to foreign investment, which the Doha round does not even address.Look beyond the formalities of tariffs and investment agreements, to the nuts and bolts of modern commerce, and you may even conclude that it had become irreversibly integrated.
That sounds odd, however, since the government has even threatened to dissolve Mr Kye's own restructuring unit over suspicions that it was used by members of the founding family to sway the succession struggle.As creeping as the pace of change may be, it is hard to fault Hyundai, or any of the chaebol, on formalities.
Besides, as life improves, people are paying less attention to corruption and the legal formalities of public life, laments Mr Cardoso.In the medium term, the chance of further reform may depend on the PSDB, which under Mr Cardoso laid the foundations of economic stability and a stronger democracy in the 1990s.
Although Mr Putin has often seemed a stickler when it comes to respecting constitutional formalities, he and his advisers have become ever more blatant in their flouting of democracy's true substance.
Rural incomes have risen by one-third for small farmers and two-thirds for big ones, reversing eight years of stagnation and decline, thanks to munificent EU subsidies and an influx of foreign buyers offering high prices for Polish meat and fruit.Poland's total exports rose by more than 30% in the first nine months of 2004, helped by the abolition of customs formalities.
Even if they did not witness torture, their presence "can be reasonably understood as implicitly condoning such practices", he wrote.As for extraordinary rendition transferring people without legal formalities to countries that practise torture, or to secret CIA prisons Britain was the only western European country to be named as one that "facilitated" renditions.
It would take them ten minutes to clear formalities on the Finnish side and ten hours to clear the Russian ones, if they were lucky.
Customs formalities, for instance, add inordinate bureaucracy and costs to the 40% of goods that are shipped within the EU by sea.
Jörg Asmussen, chief secretary at the finance ministry, will move to the ECB, assuming the formalities go without a hitch.
And he has seemed uninterested in legal formalities that could prove a distraction from his economic agenda.
