The unorthodox location of the summit is intended to lessen the formality of the first meeting between the two leaders, White House aides said, and help establish a working relationship, if not rapport, between Trump and Xi after moments of tension during the U.S. election season.
Some people have been wrongly foreclosed in this process, precisely the sort of mistake that the bureaucratic formalities are intended to prevent.
The imposition of this formal punctuation is intended to apply to written designations, not to impose a stilted formality to speech.
Lines of all-capital lettering, intended to enhance the cornerstone's formality, may have diminished somewhat the idea that it commemorates people and spirit.
Yet in both cases the vote was a formality; an ex-post-facto justification for an organization to do whatever it intended to do anyway.
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.
"Compulsively fastidious, with [the works'] dense, even surfaces of bright colors, they have about them something of the formality and hieratic quality of Byzantine art, combined with a whimsy that may or may not have been intended but is charming all the same".
As the strength and formality of the affinal bond weakened following decades of labour migration and policies whose unintended, and in some cases intended, consequence was to keep young married couples and their families apart; social structures and support realigned around the stronger and more enduring parental and filial bonds.
Pack extra business cards for boardroom formalities, but unless you intend to hold a news conference, leave your suit jackets at home.
