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

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

A mere formality.

Yes, Frith. It's purely a formality.

An empty formality a piece of parchment.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Instead, political life here has been reduced to 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.

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

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.

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

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

Unfortunately, in practice this substantive obligation has been transformed into nothing more than a belated formality, with little content.

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

Yet there remained unfortunate tendencies towards formality, reading prepared statements, and repeating what had already been said.

Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots would be able to enter the Area freely and without any formality.

The literal application of the New York Convention and the MAL may, because of a formality, frustrate the legitimate expectations of the parties.

However, it may still be considered that the formality of the act has a role to play in determining the intent of its author.

It could be said that this re entry, today, of a South African delegation into this Hall is a formality, following the recent historic events in South Africa.

While IEC was extremely confident that issuance of such cards would take less than five minutes for each, a large number of voters were still finding the formality preceding the issuance of the cards not only cumbersome but also slow and difficult.

Parliamentarism has evolved since 1884 and entails that the cabinet must not have the parliament against it, and that the appointment by the King is a formality.

I'm a sworn officer of the law, 24 hours a day, and neither formality nor informality justifies you withholding evidence of crime from me except, of course, on constitutional grounds.

Yet right after that, the bureaucracy tried to turn the public hearings called to give people and civil institutions a voice in solving such problems into an empty formality.

He was really taking too much to heart an empty formality which to Chester's rigorous criticism seemed unworthy the notice of a man who could see things as they were.

This structure has been established and exists as a formality in order to comply with the requests from leaders of local clans. However, it is de facto superseded by Dheere's authoritarian leadership style.

3.3 The author complains that prior to his extradition, he was already found guilty by the prosecutor and the examining magistrate of Coutances, and that the preliminary investigations in his case were merely a formality.

Only a littlebitty, noaccount piece, only we had a run of luck. Only?

He's only a man. No! You're only a man.

She suggested that there was a need to rethink the format and presentation of the reports of mandate holders in order to ensure that they remained of high quality and were not curtailed for reasons of bureaucratic formality.

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.