Sentence examples for formality as a from inspiring English sources

For there human classifications have achieved an elaborate formality, as a bemused magistrate heard yesterday.

Even Mr. Laffer refused to ask for forgiveness, describing the formality as a "selfish act" that he would not partake in.

The process was largely a formality, as a friendly Republican majority in the Senate pretty much guaranteed Pai's confirmation.

Another illustration of the use of formality as a life jacket was when role interactions were strategically used.

The second half was a mere formality as a relaxed West Ham played out a comfortable 45 minutes, which they decorated right at the very end as substitute Maynard found space in the box to smash a shot past Marshall.

Conversely, those workers who originally enter the labor market in an informal position tend progressively to move to formality as a function of both age and experience; these trajectories are more probable for low-educated workers.

Christian inaugurates a new regime for Anastasia, a regime of control of her environment and of her own behavior — a heightened formality — as well as a newfound aesthetic sense that reflects it.

It would be easy to dismiss this formality as an attempt to establish retroactively something that never existed between Winterson and her adoptive mother: a respectful distance governed by commonly accepted standards of decency and reason.

This work contributes further evidence to the importance of studying language within communicative contexts and the importance of formality as an influential factor in linguistic production.

This has to gall a man of such formality as Baker, a man who was deeply involved in American/Middle Eastern geopolitics, a man who remains the very definition of "standing on ceremony".

"I think that the RFU report will just be a formality as we have a ground capable of taking 8,500 next season, so I would anticipate it being full on a number of occasions for Premiership matches," Duckworth said.