"They're still trying to formalize plans for the weekend," he said.
There is less agreement about proposals to formalize rules for the management of monetary policy.
But others argued that the bishops had sought to prevent a split by agreeing not to ordain more gay bishops or to formalize rites for same-sex unions.
Mr. Brown said in a telephone interview that he began to formalize plans for his new restaurant, Eighty One, two and a half years ago.
M. Stewart Ryan — often bolstered by Judge Steven O'Neill's questioning of McMonagle — argued that lawyers made no request to formalize immunity for Cosby before the deposition.
The biology community needs to recognize BER as a legitimate career path, and to formalize opportunities for undergraduate and graduate researchers to pursue this path.
In the future, clinicians should strive to formalize strategies for managing such patients, probably combining clinical findings, imaging, and conventional bacterial cultures, but also the use of biomarkers and perhaps multiplex PCR-based assays to enhance our diagnostic ability.
Also last week, a delegation led by Clay Lowery, a top Treasury official, met with ADIA executives as part of a move to formalize investment guidelines for sovereign funds.
Mr. Obama has tried to formalize the process for reviewing existing regulations, and the two candidates vying to take his place, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, have nodded at the need to ease the burdens of regulation.
The Obama and Medvedev administrations have taken steps to formalize the basis for the relationship, notably via the Bilateral Presidential Commission, which links U.S. departments and Russian ministries in work groups ranging from clean energy cooperation to counterterrorism.
