Sentence examples for mere formalities from inspiring English sources

Prescriptions are mere formalities.

In future, it advised, mergers must not be mere formalities, but must allow the rationalisation of staff and branches.

Fang Xi, an economic official at the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, suggested the remaining steps were mere formalities.

The actions, which were first reported in The Wall Street Journal, were mere formalities for a court challenge.

Such things are mere "formalities," a loan officer says, while removing stacks of cash from a metal box.

Those are bestowed at meetings of top party and government officials, most likely in the coming months, that in the past have been mere formalities.

Unsurprisingly, James Bopp Jr., the lawyer who represented Citizens United and who now represents the three non-profit corporations challenging the Montana law, asked the justices in Washington for a stay while he could prepare a formal appeal, which he suggested would be a mere formality.

In another formulation (6 380 81) he says that right concerns universality as a formal condition of freedom while virtue concerns a necessary end beyond the mere formality of universality, thus appearing to tie the distinction to the first two formulas of the categorical imperative in the Groundwork.

"The election is a mere formality".

The second round was a mere formality.

That a victory would prove a mere formality.