Sentence examples for not informal from inspiring English sources

Most policies cover only formal insider-trading investigations, not informal requests for information, which can be arduous and expensive.

"It was not informal at all.

"These were not informal mah-jongg games between acquaintances," he said.

The secret records were provided by Belgrade, and prosecutors said that they showed that these groups — with names like Arkan's Tigers, the Scorpions, the Gray Wolves and the White Eagles — were not informal bands of criminals or spontaneous patriots but well-trained, well-equipped and well-paid men in uniforms, directed by the secret police led by Mr. Stanisic and Mr. Simatovic.

"Typically, a synagogue space is not informal that way.

The woman introduced herself to me as Maria Gattorno, the director of the Cuban Rock Agency, even though introductions on her behalf were entirely unnecessary: Everyone knows Gattorno less so as the Agency's director, and more so by her illustrious, if not informal, title as the godmother of the Cuban rock scene.

48 interviews were carried out with health staff and 35 with other community members and key informants (not including informal interviewing).

Intimate but not exactly informal: cloth-covered chairs were B&B Italia; the china was by Bernaud.

The contracts are not necessarily informal, but range from purely informal to semi-formal ones.

However, corruption in health care has a wider meaning and includes not only informal patient payments, but also informal (illegal) payments to physicians and/or officials initiated by pharmaceutical companies (or other actors) for own, mainly financial benefits.

Exclusion criteria were (i) patients who did not receive informal care, (ii) patients for whom no informal caregiver was available and (iii) patients who died before the point of measurement.