A mere formality.

By the end of the week, my vigil was a mere formality.

Instead, political life here has been reduced to mere formality.

The annual report of the Security Council must cease to be a mere formality.

But will this December s vote be a mere formality? Experience teaches us to be prudent.

But will this December s vote be a mere formality? Experience teaches us to be prudent.

5.4 The author argues that in any event the appointment of a process agent is a mere formality.

On behalf of France, I should like to pay a tribute here to the Secretary General and this is not a mere formality.

Yes, Frith. It's purely a formality.

An empty formality a piece of parchment.

And the only remedy to that is to restore a kind of formality, at least a formality required to maintain a copyright.

Don't get excited, old man, it's only a formality.

The investigations that were carried out were purely a formality.

This business is a formality. Don Birnam is dead already.

There is just one small formality.

Royal assent is granted after the formality of a third reading.

The same formality and red tape. Oh.

It's just a formality, but please put your seal on this receipt.

A mere stomachache

As a mere figment, as a mere ghost existing in your wife's mind...

Standardization and simplification of the formality requirements reduces risks of formality errors and thus will result in a less frequent loss of rights as well as in cost reductions.

Withdrawal must not be seen as a practical formality that was without consequences.

Informing the wider United Nations membership about the work of the Council, it was pointed out, should be viewed as an obligation, rather than as a mere formality, especially when the Council considered matters affecting all Member States.

I'm a mere tourist.

A mere 300 men.

The written form requirement is for many a formality that is no longer justified.

Perhaps, it would be better if you put it down on paper. Just a formality.

We make that observation because, in our view, Member States' consideration of the report should not be limited to a mere formality, but rather should be a reaffirmation of the Assembly's responsibility for issues of fundamental importance for the entire membership of the Organization.

This formality may frustrate the legitimate expectations of the other parties.

A minimum of formality should continue to be observed in relation to the lodging of appeals.

It's a mere scrap of paper.

The opportunity that Article 15, paragraph 2 of the Charter of the United Nations gives to Members of the General Assembly to receive the report of the highest judicial organ of the Organization is not, and must not be seen as, a mere formality.

Haiti subscribed to the Millennium Development Goals it did so deliberately and not just as a formality.

And all this formality gets me down a little, not to say puts me ill at ease.

First, coordination among agencies is almost non existent the said Council is more a formality than a coordinating mechanism.

It is more than a mere concern.

This time, it wasn't a mere conference.

But it is a most glorious formality, one with which Australia is happy and honoured to be associated.

Democracy is increasingly seen as a mere ritual.

The story would ordinarily be a mere curiosity.

These are only words from a mere mortal .

It was not enough as a mere concept.

A mere mechanical arm of Tellson and Company.

Poor little thing. He's just a mere boy.

Apparently a mere figment of your wife's imagination.