The league made no formal, public response to the union's proposal.

"We have not yet received a formal response from the government."

The court gave the government until Saturday to submit a formal response.

A formal response from the party is expected in early 2011.

When the message finally arrived, it was at the end of the business day, too late to send a formal response.

Its formal response today is expected to say much the same thing.

There has been no formal response from the Bush campaign.

Vatican officials said that no formal response had yet been made.

"As I said before, we're going to wait for the formal response."

The formal response must be the one I have just given.