And with Imran Tahir and Boyd Rankin offering little resistance, the follow-on was a formality.
When in doubt, err on the side of formality, addressing new acquaintances as "Monsieur" and "Madame".
His preference was for the wild and natural, not for formality or ornamental flowerbeds.
The formality of Japanese culture takes a subtle yet distinctive form at the hotel.
Correspondents say that final government approval for the tour should now be a formality.
An acknowledgment sealed in a formality that the violent divided past should be laid to rest.
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He is close to his son and daughter, but says he regrets a certain formality between them.
Even the Romantics, who were beginning to turn against the harsh formality of science, embraced it warmly.
Normally this would be a formality, with the vice-chairman, Shawn Steel, a lawyer, stepping into the post.
Some in Brussels reckon his seeming dismissiveness reflects a disdain for diplomatic formality rather than an ideological euroscepticism.
Fashions in gardens have, over the past 300 years, swung quite regularly between architectural formality and free-flowing naturalism.
Parliament has to approve the naming of the 21, though this is likely to be only a formality.
Law is the formality by which government selectively debilitates particular individual hosts with heightened feeding to protect everyone else.
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This was a formality on her part but the honest truth on mine.
The system's use in any competition has to be approved by Fifa, but this is seen as a formality.
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Pakistan's Cabinet must endorse the decision at a meeting Wednesday considered a formality after which supplies will resume, the official said.
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Any action would need to be approved by Algeria, "which is more than just a formality, " the official said.
This may go some way to explaining the lacunae which took this example from a formality to a three-month epic.
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Asked how the relationship could work better, Cameron said more distance, formality and respect were called for on both sides.
Correspondents say it will be a formality as the Democratic governor has campaigned for five years to have the death penalty repealed.
The reigning champions have cruised through the tournament so far with ominous-looking form, but Fitzgibbon insists the result is not a formality.
Some of the rooms lend themselves to formality and some to relaxation.
Certain statements, by Mr Cheney in particular, tempt the thought that sometimes the administration could not even be bothered with this formality.
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If a legal formality marking the end of a marriage was all an estranged couple needed, divorce would be short and .
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Her own party found a formality on which to revoke her citizenship and throw her out of the country and the parliament.
The two sides dispensed with that formality after a mere 12 months.
The Supreme Court considered the swearing-in an important formality, but not indispensable for the start of the new presidential term, she said.
Now however, his case is clear cut and it will only be a formality at a later date to remove his registration.
Employees will turn up to work at predictable hours five days a week, and will comport themselves with greater formality than before.
Venables accepted a prison sentence was justified, Mr Gibson said, and that his release at the end of it was not a formality.
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