I wish we could just discuss these questions without having to go through all the folderol of a formal meeting. |
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English has a formal status in the special municipalities of Saba and Sint Eustatius. |
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Constantine received a formal education at Diocletian's court, where he learned Latin literature, Greek, and philosophy. |
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Furthermore, the Parliament began holding votes on proposed Commission Presidents from the 1980s, before it was given any formal right to veto. |
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To the south of his palace, he ordered the construction of a large formal audience hall, and a massive imperial bathhouse. |
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Niches in amphitheatres such as the Colosseum were originally filled with statues, and no formal garden was complete without statuary. |
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This suggests that they were capable of making formal agreements in unison despite supposedly having many different chieftains. |
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Scotland's national relics and regalia were made in a formal presentation to the English royal saint, Edward the Confessor. |
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The agreement based on overt grammatical categories as above is formal agreement, in contrast to notional agreement, which is based on meaning. |
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It was common for surgeons to have no formal medical education, and no diploma or entry examination was required. |
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We met the new captain while we were taking enemy fire and were unable to observe the niceties of formal introductions. |
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This formal designation allowed radiometric dates to be obtained from samples across the globe that corresponded to the base of the Cambrian. |
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West Lothian has a formal structure for engaging with young people and including them in the decision making process. |
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He has the formal Scottish style of HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay. |
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The devolved governments have no formal say in how the British Parliament legislates on reserved matters. |
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Still others may lack any formal leaders, either in principle or by local necessity. |
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At the end of March, The First Minister sent the formal request to the UK Government for a Section 30 order. |
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Despite these massive numbers there was still no formal requirements for being a physician. |
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A formal system for indicating cadency is unknown outside the House of Savoy. |
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In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. |
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Before making any formal argument, parties will generally submit legal briefs in which the parties present their arguments. |
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After deliberating in chambers, appellate courts will issue formal opinions that resolve the legal issues presented for review. |
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If one of the parties disagrees with the judgement of the second instance, he or she can appeal it, but only on formal judicial reasons. |
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The Loyal Toast is drunk at formal dinners in the Mess and is always drunk seated, except when Royalty is present. |
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Academic dress is usually worn only at formal occasions, such as at graduation, or academic processions which take place for ceremonial reasons. |
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Very formal occasions require jackets to be worn, whereas less formal occasions do not, and only the waistcoat is worn. |
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As in other French regions, formal education before the 19th century was the preserve of the elite. |
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Under the provisions of the 1974 Instrument of Government, the King lacks any formal political power. |
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From this concept, historians have inferred a formal institution of overlordship south of the Humber. |
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This is not so in other monarchies where the new monarch's reign begins only with coronation or some other formal or traditional event. |
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All government bills need the formal approval by the Monarch before and after introduction to Parliament. |
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On 14 June 2012, the formal rejection of the proposed CVA meant that the company would enter the liquidation process. |
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The Gourock to Dunoon service was the subject of a separate tender, but no formal bids were made. |
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The result was a formal treaty that promised French aid to Owain and the Welsh. |
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Until its 1976 Geneva Congress, the SI had few members outside Europe and no formal involvement with Latin America. |
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The whole contract including the oath of fealty was part of a formal commendation ceremony that created the feudal relationship. |
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It has also been found to be more common among men than women, and less common in more formal styles of speech. |
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Henry yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into Simon's administration. |
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In highly formal registers with exaggeratedly careful enunciation, weak forms may be avoided. |
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The park is owned and managed by the National Trust, and is home to Erddig Hall and its formal gardens. |
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On 11 October 1809, a naval commission recommended purchase of the Milford Haven facility and formal established of a Royal Navy dockyard. |
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On 19 October 2005, Liverpool City Council issued a formal apology for the flooding. |
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In December 1992, the British Prime Minister, John Major, announced their formal separation in Parliament. |
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A formal threshold usually requires parties to win a certain percentage of the vote in order to be awarded seats from the party lists. |
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In addition, the Chicago Sister Cities program hosts a number of delegation and formal exchanges. |
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Mary Mac's Tea Room and Paschal's are more formal destinations for Southern food. |
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In 2008, the ICS erected a formal international system of subdivisions, illustrated to the right. |
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There is formal collaboration with the College of Natural Sciences in Bangor University. |
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In addition, many speakers use Modern Standard Arabic in education and formal settings. |
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The formal bureaucratic style jarred my ears and reminded me that I was indeed home, no wucking furries! |
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Note also that the above examples of Welsh are the formal written language. |
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The second formal method of charging someone with a crime is by information. Informations are filed by prosecutors without grand jury review. |
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In contrast, standard written Chinese continues to be used in formal literature, professional and government documents, and news media. |
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Prose lacks the more formal metrical structure of verse that can be found in traditional poetry. |
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For folklore is not taught in a formal school curriculum or studied in the fine arts. |
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In March 1259, he entered into a formal alliance with one of the main reformers, Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. |
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A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. |
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School groups, formal and informal groups can also be accommodated but should book in advance. |
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Pseudovarieties are of particular importance in the study of finite semigroups and hence in formal language theory. |
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Despite this 'withdrawal' from the University of Wales, the new Cardiff Metropolitan University retains close formal links with it. |
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Having slipped to 127th in the provisional ranking and now aged 58, Reardon called a halt to his formal playing career. |
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She was accepted into the conservatoire without actually having had any formal training as a singer. |
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Leaving school with no formal qualifications, Hopkins began working in a grocery shop. |
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The Lancastrian regime was founded and legitimised by formal lying that was both public and official. |
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The Royal Navy has several formal customs and traditions including the use of ensigns and ships badges. |
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There are several less formal traditions including service nicknames and Naval slang. |
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It recognises religious organisations according to formal legal criteria that do not address religious doctrine. |
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Most languages of the world have formal means to express differences of number. |
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Although such alliances formed throughout the Holy Roman Empire, the league never became a closely managed formal organisation. |
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Cromwell made the various income streams put in place by Henry VII more formal and assigned largely autonomous bodies for their administration. |
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The decision to exclude Low German in formal education was not without controversy, however. |
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This event is known as the Gregorian mission and is the date the Church of England generally marks as the beginning of its formal history. |
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The period saw a democratization of the language with a less formal written form that came closer to the spoken one. |
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The plural verb forms appeared decreasingly in formal writing into the 1950s, when their use was removed from all official recommendations. |
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By the time her formal education ended in 1550, Elizabeth was one of the best educated women of her generation. |
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It is still not a hymn in the narrow sense of the formal and structural criteria of hymnody. |
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In return for formal recognition of the lands he possessed, Rollo agreed to be baptised and assist the king in the defence of the realm. |
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At formal occasions in the Spanish Armed Forces, the first toast is to the King of Spain. |
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At the Nobel Banquet or other such formal events in Sweden, the first toast is usually to the Swedish sovereign. |
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In wardrooms and officer's messes during formal dinners, the Royal Hymn can be sung after the Loyal Toast, even when the king is not present. |
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With the advent of written representations, formal rules about language usage tend to appear also. |
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Fisher's style was to say little in formal meetings, but to lobby determinedly at all informal gatherings. |
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Cromwell and Fairfax took the formal surrender of the Royalists at Oxford in June. |
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Words are used in various forms of writing from formal essays to social media feeds. |
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He successfully applied for a job as junior clerk at the Indian consulate, despite his lack of formal education. |
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Due to its dense, dark green, mature foliage, and its tolerance of even very severe pruning, it is used especially for formal hedges and topiary. |
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Water governance is the set of formal and informal processes through which decisions related to water management are made. |
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The term tense, then, particularly in less formal contexts, is sometimes used to denote any combination of tense proper, aspect, and mood. |
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Now, Members seeking that the House sit in private must make a formal motion to that effect. |
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The Standing Orders of the House of Commons do not establish any formal time limits for debates. |
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The work of male slaves was a much more formal affair, especially in urban settings as compared to the experience of slave women. |
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In addition to formal disputes, the government of Somalia exercises little control de facto over Somali territorial waters. |
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Before 1810 the family had only one formal residence in Devonshire, namely the townhouse of Bedford House in the City of Exeter. |
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After losing in this period of formal hostilities with European and American powers, the Barbary states went into decline. |
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It was announced that Galaxy jersey sales had already reached a record figure of over 250,000 prior to this formal introduction. |
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There was no formal limit on the number of Standing Committees, but usually only ten existed. |
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The parties did not undertake a formal engagement, but assumed that the match would take place in due time. |
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Southampton is divided into council wards, suburbs, constituencies, ecclesiastical parishes, and other less formal areas. |
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Some argue that there was no formal leadership during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. |
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Historically, the duties of the president have been both formal and social. |
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This would allow Britain and France to continue their colonial skirmishes without formal war being declared in Europe. |
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Britain received formal control of New France, while handing back Martinique and Guadeloupe. |
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Since 1951, Australia has been a formal military ally of the US, under the ANZUS treaty. |
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Not all of these attractions are within the formal boundaries of the village. |
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The Tertiary is no longer recognized as a formal unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, but the word is still widely used. |
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They attended his London lectures and in 1660, initiated formal weekly meetings. |
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In mathematics, syntax refers to the rules governing the behavior of mathematical systems, such as formal languages used in logic. |
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Earlier legal anthropological research often focused more narrowly on conflict management, crime, sanctions, or formal regulation. |
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One is Kelvin's, that its formal character is independent of the properties of particular materials. |
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Unlike conventional human languages, a formal language in this sense is a system of signs for encoding and decoding information. |
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Another definition sees language as a formal system of signs governed by grammatical rules of combination to communicate meaning. |
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Three months later, on 2 March 1992, the country gained formal recognition as an independent state at the United Nations. |
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Guoyu was understood as formal vernacular Chinese, which is close to classical Chinese. |
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Under Charles I the Inquisition became a formal department in the Spanish government, hurtling out of control as the 16th century progressed. |
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The Principate allowed the existence of a de facto dictatorial regime, while maintaining the formal framework of the Roman Republic. |
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Folk notions of botany and zoology are presented as ethnobotany and ethnozoology alongside references from the formal sciences. |
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This event might have prompted the annexation of the Nabataean kingdom, but the manner and the formal reasons for the annexation are unclear. |
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The way to become king in Sweden could however also be to defeat opponents in battle and not only to be elected by the formal procedure. |
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This may be a formal hierarchy, or they may be vague, overlapping terms, or a combination of both. |
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The Portuguese fluent Philip II visited the country twice, but Philip III only once, in a short formal visit, and Philip IV never bothered to. |
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Among the reindeer herders in Sami villages, the women usually have a higher level of formal education in the area. |
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The Sovereign's Entrance is also the formal entrance used by visiting dignitaries, as well as the starting point of public tours of the Palace. |
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Especially in the first half of the century, portraits were very formal and stiff in composition. |
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Each day, the Speaker and Lord Speaker take part in formal processions from their apartments to their respective Chambers. |
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Then, the House votes on a formal motion to appoint the member in question to the Speakership. |
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Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions. |
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The RES was submitted to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for formal approval. |
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The Sovereign plays no formal role in the disestablished Church in Wales or Church of Ireland. |
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The Cities of London and Westminster within it have received formal city status. |
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The bulk of British emigration, trade, and capital went to areas outside the formal British Empire. |
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Thames Valley Police is a formal body that takes its name from the river, covering three counties. |
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The latest formal attempt considered by Switzerland was of Vorarlberg in 1919 but subsequently rejected. |
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By avoiding formal battles, irregulars have sometimes harassed high quality armies to destruction. |
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As early as 132 BCE references suggest that the Ketuvim was starting to take shape, although it lacked a formal title. |
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As it was desirable to take formal possession of this territory the Portuguese erected a stone cross in Algoa Bay. |
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In Germany, that process, the creation of the Zollverein, preceded formal national unity. |
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Everyone, even noble passengers of greater formal rank, were under his jurisdiction. |
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The grant by formal document led to doubts about the use of the title city by other burghs. |
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In the case of these three cities, there are no city councils and no formal boundaries. |
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Newry, like Inverness and Stirling in Scotland, has no formal boundaries or city council. |
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At more formal dinners, a common practice includes taking small red potatoes, slicing them, and roasting them in an iron skillet. |
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The formal leave-taking ceremony of a diplomat can take all day just to say we'll have my replacement here tomorrow. |
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In January 2001 Airbus Industrie was transformed from an inherently inefficient consortium structure to a formal joint stock company. |
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A further Ukase on December 27, 1732 concerned the organization and the formal commissioning of the expedition. |
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In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand. |
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Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. |
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Reference to Lagrange in calculus terms marks out the application of what are now called formal power series. |
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He had a primary school education, and received lessons from his father, but had little further formal and academic teaching. |
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The use of English or French as the formal language is split along political lines. |
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While not a formal member of the Lunar Society, Sir Joseph Banks was active in it. |
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The 1833 territorial division of Spain put a formal end to the Kingdom of Galicia, unifying Spain into a single centralized monarchy. |
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Dental records confirmed that the body was hers, and the police began a formal investigation into her murder. |
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In formal constitutional terms, the Cabinet is a committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. |
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The Cabinet's formal relationship with Parliament, or at least the Prime Minister's hopes for it, are set out in the Ministerial Code. |
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Subsequent writers like Ruzar Briffa and Karmenu Vassallo tried to estrange themselves from the rigidity of formal themes and versification. |
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As with most languages, written language tends to use a more formal register than spoken language. |
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For much of the history of the Royal Colony, the formal appointed governor was absentee, often remaining in England. |
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In Central America, especially in Honduras, usted is often used as a formal pronoun to convey respect between the members of a romantic couple. |
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The Welsh language is also compulsory up to the age of 16, although a formal GCSE qualification is optional. |
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Now the formal negotiations were broken off, however, and Maurice was authorised to conduct further negotiations in secret. |
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If a word is of Persian or Arabic origin, the level of speech is considered to be more formal and grand. |
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Sorry no formal preso for you, but the first point is a real killer in my book. |
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Ehrman question whether there was a formal link between Peter and the modern papacy. |
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He is credited with having a less formal approach to the papacy than his predecessors. |
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However, there is no formal defence treaty with Italy, as the Vatican City is a neutral state. |
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The Kingdom of Navarre had been invaded by Ferdinand of Aragon jointly with Castile in 1512, but he pledged a formal oath to respect the kingdom. |
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Senate, where it was given two formal readings and referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
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The Methodist Conference is the formal authority on all matters of belief and practice. |
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The resolution marked the denomination's first formal acknowledgment that racism played a role in its founding. |
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While the British continued to administer Kamaran from Aden, they never declared formal possession. |
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According to a study by Pew Research Centre, Hindus are among the religious groups having least years of formal education. |
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In such cases, there are fewer ground rules, and fewer formal applications of international law. |
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For most of history, there were no official or formal procedures for such proceedings. |
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When they set about forging formal political institutions, they were dependent on the empire. |
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Charles VIII of France now advanced formal claims on the Kingdom of Naples. |
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Only a few areas keep a formal grammar school system along the lines of the Tripartite System. |
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The opponent and the candidate conduct a formal debate, usually wearing white tie, under the supervision of the thesis supervisor. |
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A peculiarity of the name is that the word The is a formal part of the abbreviated name and is, therefore, capitalised. |
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The structure of US doctoral programs is more formal and complex than some others. |
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A formal meeting of the Regent House, known as a Congregation, is held for this purpose. |
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One of the most distinguishing aspects of student life at Cambridge is the possibility to take part in formal dinners at college. |
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For example, some colleges have formal hall six times a week, but in others this only happens occasionally. |
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At most colleges these formal meals require gowns to be worn, and a Latin grace is said. |
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The next year, 1816, finally saw the formal union of the Kingdom of Naples with the Kingdom of Sicily into the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
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Each House has a formal name, mainly used for post and people outside the Eton community. |
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Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury. |
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Before 1950, the formal visual arts were a minor aspect of Newfoundland cultural life, compared to the performing arts such as music or theatre. |
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Like Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, he had no formal architectural training. |
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The inequality figures thus take into account people who do not actually rely on the formal economy for their survival. |
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A papal bull is today the most formal type of public decree or letters patent issued by the Vatican Chancery in the name of the pope. |
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Determined that his sons would not work in the mines, he saw formal education as the route to their advancement. |
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By the bull Quorundam exigit he modified several provisions of the constitution Exivi, and required the formal submission of the Spirituals. |
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Over the next decade much of the formal economy was destroyed in the country's civil war. |
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People had been informally sharing risk for hundreds of years, but the formal ways they were now sharing risk was new. |
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The formal language she uses around Paris, as well as the way she talks about him to her Nurse, show that her feelings clearly lie with Romeo. |
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Juliet uses monosyllabic words with Romeo but uses formal language with Paris. |
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Milton was disdainful of the university curriculum, which consisted of stilted formal debates conducted in Latin on abstruse topics. |
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Before 1970, only three formal schools existed in the entire country, with fewer than 1,000 students. |
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It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire. |
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Though Mary Godwin received little formal education, her father tutored her in a broad range of subjects. |
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In some stories, the question remains unresolved of whether formal justice will ever be delivered, such as Five Little Pigs and Endless Night. |
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Some men carry the assa, a stick, which can have practical uses or is simply used as an accessory during formal events. |
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On formal occasions a black or beige cloak called a bisht may cover the dishdasha. |
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After performing at parties and family gatherings, at the age of 7 he took up formal piano lessons. |
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A more formative event for his career than his formal education was an uncle's gift, when Lean was aged ten, of a Brownie box camera. |
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Because his mother did not allow Sellers to go, his formal education ended at fourteen. |
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In this way, even the most formal of rituals are potential avenues for creative expression. |
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As these innovations become more accepted and standardized, they are slowly adopted in more formal rituals. |
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On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum. |
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There are usually formal intervals on each day for lunch and tea with brief informal breaks for drinks. |
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These rituals may fall along the spectrum of formality, with some less, others more formal and restrictive. |
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From the Opening Meet they will switch to formal hunting attire where entitled members will wear scarlet and the rest black or navy. |
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Traditionalism varies from formalism in that the ritual may not be formal yet still makes an appeal to historical. |
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Yorkshire, as such, played intermittently over the next thirty years but was not organised in any formal way. |
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They were not only expected to be able to perform formal surgery, but also to be deft at cutting hair and trimming beards. |
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The next year the Royal Automobile Club took a lease on the airfield and set out a more formal racing circuit. |
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He received a formal warning from World Snooker, and was advised that further breaches of contract would lead to fines. |
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The most important figure of the formal learning of surgery was Guy de Chauliac. |
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Initially there were few formal places of worship because of the nomadic lifestyle. |
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After the initial communications, more formal letters and embassies were exchanged. |
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The only other sailor to maintain a journal during the voyage was Francisco Albo, Victoria's last pilot, who kept a formal logbook. |
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The original opposition was between formal or implied good Latin and informal or Vulgar Latin. |
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When these nations set about forging formal political institutions, they often modelled themselves on Constantinople. |
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However, the United Kingdom has redefined its formal relationship with the Crown Dependencies since the late 20th century. |
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The formal powers and functions of the President are prescribed in the Constitution. |
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The President is the formal Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces, but in practice answers to the Government via the Minister for Defence. |
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The other direct report of the voyage was that of Francisco Albo, the last Victoria's pilot, who kept a formal logbook. |
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Dual nationality is when a single person has a formal relationship with two separate, sovereign states. |
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Statelessness is the condition in which an individual has no formal or protective relationship with any state. |
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The Secretary of State signed all passports in place of the monarch from 1794 onwards, at which time formal records started to be kept. |
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The university has formal agreements with other colleges in Northern Ireland and operates several outreach schemes to rural areas. |
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Since the mid-twentieth century, the exchange of Orders has become less personal and more formal and diplomatic. |
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In 1965, the Conservatives adopted a formal mechanism for electing a leader, thus relieving her of involvement. |
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The only other sailor to report the voyage would be Francisco Albo, who kept a formal logbook. |
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Lacking a formal navigation school, early pilots were trained by apprenticeship. |
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The Islanders have never had formal representation in the House of Commons of the British Parliament, nor in the European Parliament. |
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Similarly, a formal alliance does not necessarily mean that one country lies within another's sphere of influence. |
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The children have inadequate medical care and little formal education. |
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Incredible as it may seem, she's had no formal training as an artist. |
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However, the leader was often given a more complex formal posthumous name as well. |
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In the large neglected garden, formal paths outlined with white stones were overgrown with bunny-grass. |
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His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived. |
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In the 1560s, after more than 250 years, formal treaties between Scotland and France were officially ended by the Treaty of Edinburgh. |
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Works of authority is the formal name for works that are sometimes cited as interpretations of aspects of the UK constitution. |
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On 9 December 1999, Liverpool City Council passed a formal motion apologizing for the City's part in the slave trade. |
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The formal foundation of the Liberal Party is traditionally traced to 1859 and the formation of Palmerston's second government. |
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Immediately after the election the two groups reunited, though Lloyd George declined to play much of a formal role in his old party. |
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Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe. |
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Even outside its formal empire, Britain controlled trade with many countries such as China, Siam, and Argentina. |
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Informal empire, far from being distinctive and separate from formal empire, is often bound up with formal imperial interests. |
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After achieving formal unification in 1871, Bismarck devoted much of his attention to the cause of national unity. |
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In 2004 a formal apology by a government minister of the Federal Republic of Germany followed. |
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However, the Germans had calculated that Britain would enter the war regardless of whether they had formal justification to do so. |
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Legally, the formal peace treaties were not complete until the last, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed. |
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The response to crime committed by neighbouring tribes or communities included a formal apology, compensation or blood feuds. |
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It is compulsory that children participate in one year of formal education before entering the 1st class at no later than 7 years of age. |
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Most schools came under state control in the Victorian era, a formal state school system was instituted after the Second World War. |
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The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise. |
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Prior to the American conquest of California 1846-1848, some of the secularized Mission Indian families obtained formal Mexican land grants. |
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Gingerism in the workplace could form the basis of formal grievances or constructive dismissal cases, an employment lawyer has warned. |
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Because of this, these perspectives often conflict with each other and can conflict with the formal doctrines. |
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The Cathedral Walk is maintained in a formal style with a great variety of plants providing a popular display. |
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British English spellings and conventions are used in print media and formal written communications. |
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The British troops departed after completing their mission, leaving the area without formal government. |
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Since 2013, some 700 make inquiries each year, but so far, not a single formal settlement application has been received. |
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Lady Elizabeth as usual passed by without a contribution, but made a formal courtsey to the elder at the plate, and sailed up the aisle. |
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A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city or country. |
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Similar problems arise in the medical field as well, where the disparency between computer tools and formal education methods is acknowledged. |
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Generally there is a shift to Scottish English in formal situations or with individuals of a higher social status. |
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A more formal style of writing was based on Roman square capitals, but cursive was used for quicker, informal writing. |
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In Australia, the formal ceremony of granting assent in parliament has not been regularly used since the early 20th century. |
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He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now. |
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Privy Counsellors are accorded a formal rank of precedence, if not already having a higher one. |
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Minister of the Crown is a formal constitutional term used in the Commonwealth realms to describe a minister to the reigning sovereign. |
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Statutes must receive Royal Assent from the Queen before becoming law, however this is now only a formal procedure and is automatic. |
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In general, both forms are used in only writing and more formal situations. |
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This system confirmed the formal authority of Parliament, while allowing judicial oversight. |
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Commerce, science and technology, diplomacy, art, and formal education all contributed to English becoming the first truly global language. |
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In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge. |
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This gave him, in practice, a greater authority on the ship than his formal title suggests. |
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In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality. |
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Moreover, Muhammad Ali had to admit a formal dependence to the Ottoman sultan. |
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Resolutions are only vetoed if the sponsor feels so strongly about a measure that it wishes to force the permanent member to cast a formal veto. |
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Britain signed a formal alliance and the United States made an informal agreement. |
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Kosovo's formal autonomy, established under the 1945 Yugoslav constitution, initially meant relatively little in practice. |
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After World War II, the international financial system was governed by a formal agreement, the Bretton Woods System. |
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In many poor and developing countries much land and housing is held outside the formal or legal property ownership registration system. |
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On April 7, 2016, federal prosecutor Federico Delgado began a formal investigation into Macri's involvement with Fleg Trading Ltd. |
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Maxwell was fascinated by geometry at an early age, rediscovering the regular polyhedra before he received any formal instruction. |
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In subsequent years, the environment became a formal policy area, with its own policy actors, principles and procedures. |
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With no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the family's pianist. |
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Regulations, directives, and decisions are of equal legal value and apply without any formal hierarchy. |
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England conducted its first formal census when the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086 under William I for tax purposes. |
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It has not necessarily received formal approval by way of a standardization process, and may not have an official standards document. |
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Similarly, Saddam Hussein's formal rule of Iraq is often recorded as beginning in 1979, the year he assumed the Presidency of Iraq. |
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After the Acts of Union in 1707 the emerging Scottish form of Standard English replaced Scots for most formal writing in Scotland. |
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Since 1975 it is in a formal covenant of partnership with the Waldensian Church, with a total of 45,000 members. |
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It was not, however, until 1987 when European Political Cooperation was introduced on a formal basis by the Single European Act. |
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Therefore, there is no formal ordination process for those who preach, teach, or lead, within their meetings. |
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Thus Britain had both a formal Empire based on British rule as well as an informal one based on the British pound. |
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