The result is a cynical, unacknowledged dependence on foreign labor that is not formally welcome.
The experiences of the 187 who have been formally welcomed reflect an asylum system at its best, at its most humane.
This was, in effect, the new European defence charter, and it was formally welcomed by the other member states the following week at the Vienna summit.
New York pulled out of its berth here Thursday morning, beginning a four-day journey to New York City, where it will be formally welcomed into the Navy fleet.
For Mr Bush's final official act, he will formally welcome Mr Obama to the White House today and then accompany him to the swearing-in, before flying off to retirement in Texas.
Writer attended Mehta's first public concert with the Philharmonic in Central Park and also a rehearsal in Alice Tully Hall where Mehta was formally welcomed to the orchestra by Albert Webster.
(We will be reporting more on Lithuania's economy in the coming weeks).Early this morning there was a rather pompous ceremony, in which Lithuania was "formally welcomed" (a lovely bit of Euro-speak) into the euro zone.
Hu formally welcomed with an arrival ceremony, lunch at the State Department and a full state banquet at the White House, reciprocating the formality of Obama's state visit to Beijing in 2009.
NATO formally welcomed seven new members into the alliance on Friday, stretching its security umbrella to the borders of Russia and prompting Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to reassure Moscow that it should not feel threatened.
Mr. de Joop Scheffer's visit to Moscow comes nearly two weeks after NATO formally welcomed seven new members in Eastern Europe, including three former Soviet republics in the Baltics.
