What is "formalities"

Usage examples of "formalities".

In spite of all appearances, be so kind, therefore, as to finish your duty by fulfilling the formalities described by law.

Once we've dispensed with the formalities, we can proceed with your training as fast as you want to go.

Old certificates are canceled and new ones imposed, which new certificates have new formalities added to them, a larger number of endorsers being required and certain kinds of guarantees being rejected.

Sass had found, more or less by accident, a worn copy of an etiquette manual, which had prepared her for elaborate formalities and the fine points of military courtesy - but not for the Academy's approach to freshman cadets.

They knew what she should pack, and what formalities would face her in the morning and after.

Not even your 'Dinis, until the formalities are observed and your official orders are cut.

That gave him his first contact since the tragedy and, to his surprise, he slipped easily into the required formalities of body and language.

The release formalities were completed with Shankill Authority, and the lock coupling to the cutter was released.

Killashandra made gracious noises to all the bridge staff and then swept out to get the rest of the tedious formalities over.

Nothing could have kept her from Polgara's wedding, but all the niceties and formalities had to be observed.

There are a whole series of rather delicate negotiations and formalities that you're leaping over here.

The same formalities govern a revision of the established constitution.

It is the Convention which must remove all formalities that interfere with the course pursued by the tribunal.

In some cases, even the pettiest legal formalities are dispensed with.

Let a famous general appear, and provided he respects formalities, they will follow him and once more repeat the operation.