Formal in sentence

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We know from our formal model that the brain structure at the receiving end of the Critic's commentary is the Actor.

Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.

Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.

Or listening to the same MP3 as 3,000 other people and dancing silently in a park, or bursting into song in a grocery store as part of a spontaneous musical, or diving into the ocean in Coney Island wearing formal attire.

And so you can think of teaming ... Sports teams embody the definition of a team, the formal definition.

You can think of teaming as a kind of pickup game in the park, in contrast to the formal, well-practiced team.

Now, I could give you a host of formal definitions, but in the simplest terms, any problem in complexity is something that Einstein and his peers can't do.

So this goes on in the formal economy as well as the informal economy, so it's wrong of us to blame — and I'm not singling out Siemens, I'm saying everyone does it.

Pietro was suspicious of formal art training, art history training, because he feared that it filled people up with jargon, and then they just classified things rather than looking at them, and he wanted to remind us that all art was once contemporary, and he wanted us to use our eyes, and he was especially evangelical about this message, because he was losing his sight.

Now, out of all the places that do better than the U.S. in reading, how many of them have a formal system for helping teachers improve?

That is, we've gone from four to eight years of education to 12 years of formal education, and 52 percent of Americans have actually experienced some type of tertiary education.

While these apartments that they built for themselves appear to lack any planning or formal grid, each family specializing in a certain form of recycling means that the ground floor of each apartment is reserved for garbage-related activities and the upper floor is dedicated to living space.

Yet another change for the worse in the status of the elderly is formal retirement from the workforce, carrying with it a loss of work friendships and a loss of the self-esteem associated with work.

In 2000, the year 2000, that is over a year before Enron fails, by the way, the honest appraisers got together a formal petition begging the federal government to act, and the industry to act, to stop this epidemic of appraisal fraud.

When I first began working on the bridge, we had no formal training.

Whence then am I? God speaks in a more formal English.

We have smoked salmon at the art openings, we have a formal printed invitation, and I even have figured out a way to get their parents to come.

It was like the formal medical system was canceling hope in favor of acceptance alone.

It's usually presided over by religious leaders and village elders, and jirgas are often used in rural countries like Afghanistan, where there's deep-seated resentment against the formal system.

It wasn't a formal, organized learning process, and I'm happy to admit that.

Neither of them underwent the formal review process that is required by law when they were opened.

But instead of accepting his fate, he made a resolution that he would continue his formal education.

But that's pretty much it for formal requirements.

This is important, not only for formal contexts, but it also makes communication easier between non-native speakers from different backgrounds.

But the metric system remained standard for formal use, and it spread across the continent, along with France's borders.

Ironically, it was actually the informal pronoun for people you're close with, while "you" was the formal and polite version.

And most importantly, it uses both formal and informal systems of influence and control to keep members obedient, with little tolerance for internal disagreement or external scrutiny.

Like an indictment in criminal court, it's only the formal accusation that launches a trial, which could end in conviction or acquittal.

But in the meantime, if you are returning to work after a career break, don't hesitate to suggest an internship or an internship-like arrangement to an employer that does not have a formal reentry internship program.

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