| She defended the common-sense fact that substantive adherence to the law requires the Court to avoid an absurdly formalistic approach. |
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| Despite their formalistic qualities, the collages conjure up pleasing associations. |
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| Indeed, the formalistic public-private procedural divide has been widely criticized. |
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| I should just like to impress upon you once more that this exercise should not be dealt with in a technical, bureaucratic or formalistic way. |
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| He was among the young artists who were against academicism taking stances favouring the overcoming of formalistic dogmatism. |
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| The court found no mitigating circumstances in her son's case, which confirms the formalistic and biased nature of the court's motivation. |
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| In institutional terms, the main issues are the overly long approval procedures and a tendency to take an excessively formalistic approach. |
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| To say this is not to take a formalistic approach towards jurisdiction and certainly not to indulge in any sort of legal nitpicking. |
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| In the view of many members, it has become overly formalistic and adversarial. |
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| For better or worse, Hollywood movies have gotten somewhat formalistic. |
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| Hence, the Commission should not assess a formalistic attachment to a plan. |
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| Bonhoeffer is reacting negatively to a very formalistic ethic. |
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| Of course, he says, it is not necessary to abandon centralism and strategic planning, only the bureaucratic and formalistic forms thereof. |
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| This rather formalistic approach has nowadays been replaced by an approach looking at the content of the successive agreements rather than at the number of parties alone. |
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| And the tendency towards an excessively formalistic approach, a lack of pragmatism and inconsistency in approval decisions will help little in promoting future growth. |
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| It accepted the view of the House of Lords in Re H. that the concept should not be interpreted in a formalistic way or by reference to national law. |
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| The famous decree issued by the Central Committee of the Soviet Union accused the great Soviet composers of being formalistic and idolizing the West. |
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| But their action remains hindered by an unfocussed attribution of tasks and very formalistic provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code. |
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| Richard Wilson, the head of business policy at the Institute of Directors, worries that they will make management too formalistic, and points out that it always was in a firm's interest to keep its staff well-informed. |
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| In doing so, Chile's Supreme Court, one of the more formalistic and conservative in Latin America, has up-ended the region's long tradition of granting political asylum to former rulers. |
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| He hardly confines himself to formalistic replies. |
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| The indicators did not allow the measurement of the impact as they were activity-driven and formalistic rather than evaluative, e.g. number of meetings or conferences. |
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| For this reason I am of the opinion that its application must be more flexible and less formalistic in respect of the decisions of administrative tribunals which are subject to appeal only on a point of law. |
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| In keeping with a modern and constructive attitude towards procedural rules, it is not the intention in the proposal to adopt a purely formalistic approach to the strict formal requirements. |
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| An inherent constraint of results-based management is that a formalistic approach to codifying how to achieve outcomes can stifle the innovation and flexibility required to achieve those outcomes. |
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| Data protection considerations are also part of the daily use of the system and are included in the training materials, an approach that goes beyond formalistic or theoretical protection. |
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| The new rules embody a shift from the formalistic regulatory approach underlying the current legislation towards a more economic approach in the assessment of horizontal co-operation agreements. |
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| Democracy must not be regarded in too formalistic or dogmatic terms. |
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| These, in turn, call for a close investigation of its iconographical, iconological, narrative, formalistic and stylistic details. |
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| That is, in employing a limited palette of black and white, Maludi strives to reveal formalistic truth through the emphasis of distinct geometry. |
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| I am concentrating more on universal and formalistic questions. |
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| Even in the legal sphere, formalistic conceptions of US citizenship are being displaced by culturalist, racist, or politically loaded conceptions. |
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| It appears then that, in Soviet animated film in the early 1960s, formalistic montage was only appropriate in the representation of disharmonious American cityscapes. |
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