Sentence examples for formality of a trial from inspiring English sources

Without the formality of a trial, he served 11 months in solitary confinement in a Pretoria prison.

The revolution that he had not intended gave the king his wish: in January 1533 he married Anne Boleyn; in May a new archbishop, Thomas Cranmer, presided over the formality of a trial that declared the first marriage annulled; in September the princess Elizabeth was born.

Of course, there's another reason we go through the formality of a trial before throwing someone in prison, even in "slam-dunk" cases like this one.

There were also just under 40 executions last year, compared to the well over 400 people killed by police, most of them black, so even if we were to do away with capital punishment, we'd still have the death penalty just administered by cops without the formality of a trial.

Almost all the formalities of a fair trial were observed, but it was all for show.

An indictment may be a formality, but a trial is not.

Cooper, though, maintained the stiff formality of a news interviewer.

"It's not about the formality of a meeting," Stern said.

"I think the formality of an invitation confuses people.

"Proof of Claim" notices are a required formality of an Assignment process.

It may have looked like a formality, a glorified time trial, but the concentration and effort were there still.