It is the formal act of consent to the power exchange.

Only a formal act of the pope was seen as necessary to crown him.

Confederation as a formal act could have achieved little by itself.

A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another.

Niall made a movement that the spider would recognize as a formal act of thanks.

The policy became a formal act in 1935, and its legislative sponsors were state of North Carolina.

It was also a formal act of forgiveness on the part of today's conservative Vatican.

A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position.

He understood that this formal act was revolutionary and, at that moment, nobody else in the world knew how to do it.

The ritual also constituted the father's formal act of recognition of the boy as a son.

A victory in the war against terrorism can never be registered in a formal act of surrender.

But last week, Israel's parliament went through the last formal act of closing that historical political divide.

"Imagine Gonzalez, after waiting 30 years to assume a leadership post, in his first formal act as chairman the Treasury does this."

Forbin was back in his formal act.

Shouldn't we be able to divorce the natural human act of apologising from the formal act of taking legal responsibility?

Consequently, along with my vote in favour and my agreement, I would emphasise the idea that we have other responsibilities beyond mere formal acts.

For Rousset, his task in assembling formal acts was to give insight to the rulers and their advisers.

Modern-day Liberia was founded as a hermitage without any legal or formal act of foundation on September 4, 1769.

On 11 June, which was Trinity Sunday, a formal act of possession was conducted.

Adhesion need not be a formal act and may be demonstrated through behaviour, although there appears to be a presumption against this.

Used when a formal act (usually a recording or a transcription) is required in order to give consistence, content or efficacy to a right.

Through this formal act they entered the Islamic community and showed their willingness to follow and obey Muhammad.

There was no formal act on the part of the Holy See recognizing Dol as a new metropolitan church.

A long-limbed youngster in his teens came and gave Kerwin his hand, as if it were a formal act of defiance.

The bishop, however, still insisted on a formal act of abjuration, because he had purchased heretical books and conveyed them into his diocese.