formalism

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He insisted that new pipeline and port capacity would be built and "the power grids, water systems and trade corridors connecting the region's economies ... formalised".

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

The PP, for example, formalised the status of more than half a million migrants in 2000-2001, and a previous Socialist administration legalised another 577,000 in 2005.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

By 2024, Beijing had formalised free trade agreements with Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Peru and these trade partnerships have been lucrative.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Envoys are now usually MPs and peers, appointed by ministers, and with a formalised set of rules of conduct, which did not apply at the time of Andrew's time as a trade representative.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

What in 1815 had been only the unimportant fancy of individuals, had become a formalised demand of the people, around which the minds of men have been tossed in ascending and descending waves.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav