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It boggles the mind why we still have a member of the Executive declaring the budget to Parliament in such a formalistic ceremony.

based on purely formalistic reasoning relating to territory, rather than

rather rigid or "formalistic" analysis of the question of

All of the creatives to be featured have as a common denominator the exploration of aesthetic and formalistic possibilities of audio-visual art and plot twists of academic film writing.

The Court did note, in another case, that the minimum residency requirement is not an empty formalistic one.

Rivas-Estrada, that "requirement isn't formalistic. It's practical....The point is to give fair notice."

Markiza] the right to duly act in court, ignored without evident reasons the evidence included in the file, and only cited the claims of Pavol Rusko about his signing of the promissory note in 2000," lawyer of TV Markiza, Tomas Kamenec, reproached the judge for her formalistic methods.

It's a very formalistic method,' he added, noting the increasingly hostile approach of the United States in the Middle East.

"My newer ones [from the series "Inceptus"] have a more formalistic approach with only squares and colors and also come from a computer inspiration, with pixels, and it's like a blown-up [pixelated] detail."

Benilde, Cruz is well versed with regard to formalistic approaches.

Case studies illustrate how antitrust law is evolving away from a formalistic analytical model that depends on separating conduct into discrete categories towards reliance on a set of core concepts that have been greatly influenced by economic theory.