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Simple sentences
We should write a formal letter to the director.
I utterly despise formal writing!
The President of the U.S. paid a formal visit to China.
The prime minister paid a formal visit to the White House.
They exchanged formal greetings.
Do you sell formal wear?
He had almost no formal education.
He's quite formal when he meets a stranger.
I'll need to make a formal report.
Maria is formal when she talks with her parents.
Shortly after he recovered from his injury, Tom asked John for his formal permission to court Mary, because he felt that to do otherwise would be dishonorable.
The school uniform is convenient because it can be worn for both informal and formal occasions.
You don't have to be so formal.
You don't need to prepare a formal speech.
I want to lodge a formal complaint.
This phrase should only be used colloquially, never in a formal setting.
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Come to dinner tomorrow and we'll make a formal announcement to our friends.
Perhaps soon you'll be giving a formal dinner yourself, sir.
This seems so formal under these peculiar circumstances.
Perhaps it's a formal resignation.
It is formal.
I'm about to join a very formal party as 13th guest, or maybe I'm not.
Hello, father! The proceeding has been quite formal.
When I get to be a matador, my first formal bull will be a Miura.
Don't you know any better than to bring your brats here today of all days. when Senor Gallardo is about to make his first formal appearance. in his hometown?
I, Curro- I was present the afternoon of our Juan's formal presentation. as a matador in Madrid.
I'm sorry, Mr. Norton, but I didn't know this was formal.
I thought him, um-um- well, just a shade formal, would you say?
Not formal.
Oh, Pamela, I don't want to remember you in these formal silks and satins.
Why so formal?
He could ruin your career. But that woman voiced a formal complaint.
Really? That's a trifle formal, isn't it?
We'll send you a formal invitation.
Please, that is too formal.
I must say, there isn't anything very formal about that, is there, Tito?
Rather formal.
Strictly formal.
My, how very formal.
I don't know the formal words for an abdication, Dr. Edwardes.
Well, you must admit that our first meeting was rather formal.
We needn't be so formal.
At least I have formal summer wear.
She's a little on the formal side and quite untutored.
The coast guard made a formal report that you were drowned.
I hate formal functions.
All very formal and proper, you see.
News and current affairs
Some people call for the cyber equivalent of formal arms-control treaties.
Instead, the EU kept Turkey waiting yet again, putting off formal negotiations that, in any case, may take years to complete.
Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two-thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.
Some observers conflate the concept with imperialism; but the US is clear evidence that a hegemon does not have to have a formal empire.
Beyond states, the world's many NGOs are growing fast and multiplying in their influence, but without formal rules to define their role in the international system.
One thing that will happen at Nice will be the formal adoption of a Charter of Fundamental Rights.
That way, formal haircuts on the face value of debt can be avoided via new bonds that include only a maturity extension and an interest-rate cap that is set below today's unsustainable market rates.
The Bush Administration argues that, because the Cold War is over, the formal disappearance of the ABM Treaty would not mean a loss of nuclear stability.
In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know - even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.
But Neves wants de facto, rather than formal, operational autonomy for the BCB.
Fifteen years after the Madrid Conference began a formal peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, the parties are wiser as to what is inevitable if this tortuous process is to lead to a permanent settlement.
I had expected Thinley to open the conference with a formal welcome, and then return to his office.
Before China joins, however, the final terms on which it enters the WTO must be negotiated with a group of WTO members acting on behalf of the organization and expressed in a formal agreement, the Protocol of Accession.
This web of contracts - often taken for granted in mainstream economics, to the extent that it becomes almost invisible - embodies the formal and informal rules embedded in the market system that shape and constrain individual and social behavior.
In fact, my formal residence is in New York City, but I am about to spend most of the next five months in Russia, training to be a cosmonaut in Star City, just outside Moscow.
So even good, critical questions or well-sourced data unearthed by citizen investigators tend to be regarded as radioactive to highly educated formal journalists.
Its own report, Our Land, Our Lives,indicates that, since 2008, communities affected by World Bank projects have brought 21 formal complaints alleging violations of their land rights.
In downgrading EU enlargement as a formal policy priority, the Commission is preparing itself to take other important steps.
For these reasons, barring any last-minute diplomatic indelicacies, the APEC Summit is likely to represent the start of a formal thaw in Sino-Japanese relations.
Indeed, the intention of the three democratic powers is to create an entente cordiale without transforming it into a formal military alliance, which they recognize would be counterproductive.
But, given that no formal tripartite alliance is sought, limited interoperability may mesh well with this entente cordiale's political objectives.
And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.
At the end of a speech in the Lok Sabah, the lower house of India's parliament, Singh issued his formal invitation.
Building on the ASEAN defense ministers' meeting, a formal dialogue between the defense ministers of eight key countries - China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, and the US - will run in parallel with the ARF.
South Korea and China have already finished a feasibility study for a bilateral FTA, and probably will enter into formal negotiations soon.
Moreover, Kazakhstan is already in formal talks with the EU about human rights issues.
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