The Glorification service does not "make" the individual a saint; rather, the Church is simply making a formal acknowledgement of what God has already manifested.

It is often the first formal acknowledgement by adults outside their family and school that something they know or can do has value in the adult world.

The approval of this document provides formal acknowledgement that a materiel solution is required to address the capability gaps.

The letter provided the firm's first formal acknowledgement to employees that the firm could ultimately close.

The circular gave formal acknowledgement to a practice already employed by some authorities and which continued thereafter to be ignored by others.

But today's action was the first formal acknowledgement by a freely elected government.

The admission was the first formal acknowledgement that the Government's regulation of the securities industry had contributed to the stock scandal.

Although there is a formal acknowledgement that the principle of subsidiarity needs to be observed, it is a hollow phrase.

Although the couple eventually resided together, they never married, and no formal acknowledgement was ever made of her existence or that of his children.

Now the formal acknowledgements of death were over and Sylvestra was left alone to face the empty days afterwards.