Opinions issued by the Clinton administration Office of Legal Counsel often presupposed the application of the clause, and conceded that "[t]he tradition of interpreting the Clause has been 'formalistic' rather than 'functional".
The formalistic view has been developed by Field (1980 , 1989 1998).
Accordingly, in the history of the Christian church a specific, characteristic dialectic has been evidenced between periods of excessive growth and formalistic hardening of tradition that hindered and smothered the charismatic life of the church and periods of a reduction of tradition that follow new reformational movements.
In a country where criminal proceedings are normally measured in hours, and are formalistic, procedural affairs whose outcome is decided elsewhere and well in advance, Mr Bo's trial has been anything but scripted.
Deontological theories have been termed formalistic, because their central principle lies in the conformity of an action to some rule or law.
And the P.A./P.L.O.'s achievements have been largely formalistic if not fake — a more advanced status as "observer state" at the U.N., but with no tangible improvement to the situation on the ground.
George: Oh, at St Martin's we were taken very seriously - almost as a threat, really, because the style of art that was current was formalistic art.
The Franks and Saxons inherited an art that was formalistic rather than realistic, and this permitted their coin designs to be made up from a small number of standard elements that were reproducible using punches.
In part this was because most musicology of the 1970's was formalistic and analytic; scholars would outline the structure of a work, find its stylistic precursors and successors, and occasionally invoke a wider cultural context.
The first hurdle is formalistic.
These two responses give us versions of fictionalism that, for lack of a better pair of terms, can be called formalistic fictionalism and non-formalistic fictionalism.
