Formal language theory sprang out of linguistics, as a way of understanding the syntactic regularities of natural languages.

* Formal self-insurance is the deliberate decision to pay for otherwise insurable losses out of one's own money.

Formal proceedings start at 7. 30am with the gathering of up to 250 horses waiting for the courier to arrive and announce that the Pursuivant is on his way, and at 8. 00am leave the Midsteeple and ride out to meet the Pursuivant.

Formal support groups may appear to be a modern phenomenon, but they supplement traditional fraternal organizations such as Freemasonry in some respects, and may build on certain supportive functions ( formerly ) carried out in ( extended ) families.

Formal recognition and commemoration of the Roma persecution by the Nazis is practically difficult due to the lack of significant collective memory and documentation of the Porajmos among the Roma, a consequence both of their oral traditions and their illiteracy, heightened by widespread poverty and discrimination that forces some Roma out of state schools.

Formal teaching may be carried out by paid professionals.

Formal hostilities broke out on 7 July 1937 between China and Japan with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident outside of Beijing.

Undergratuates are members of the Junior Common Room ( JCR ), although they may opt out of the common room if they wish, although if they do so they are not allowed to attend JCR events, such as the informal and formal ball, or Formal Hall.

Formal differences may hide common features of their planning, while apparently similar buildings may turn out to have their structural elements organised completely differently.

Formal garden laid out at the Abbaye de Valloires, Picardy, by Gilles Clément, 1987

# REDIRECT Formal and material principles of theology

# REDIRECT Formal and material principles of theology

# REDIRECT Formal and material principles of theology

Organizations intending to use Formal Consensus must establish the fundamental principles, values, and goals that all the members of the organization have in common.

Formal criticism of the new policies regarding minorities had also been voiced by Hungarian activists, including Károly Király, leader of the PCR in Covasna County.

Formal investigation regarding the mode of transmission this microbe uses were not conducted, but infants are believed to serve as reservoirs for the microorganism, and transmission takes place with contact between health workers and the infants.

Formal complaints were made to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs regarding publications on a new genus of aetosaur ( a type of armored prehistoric reptile from the Triassic ), and a reinterpretation of another aetosaur's armor.

Formal Consensus is designed to structurally identify and isolate issues regarding the process by which interactions occur, to prevent these issues from interfering with the content of any particular interaction.

Formal dinners are hosted by organisations such as Burns clubs, the Freemasons or St Andrews Societies and occasionally end with dancing when ladies are present.

Formal relations between the two churches were halted, although they remained in communion with each other.

Formal relations with the People's Republic of China started on 1980-01-02.

The KSL has projects with Stanford Medical Informatics ( SMI ), the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab ( SAIL ), the Stanford Formal Reasoning Group ( SFRG ), the Stanford Logic Group, and the Stanford Center for Design Research ( CDR ).

Formal theories cannot dispense with primitive notions, under pain of infinite regress.

* Formal science – branch of knowledge concerned with formal systems.

Formal Samoan has only one word with velar ; colloquial Samoan conflates and to.

Formal Relations with Thailand was established 14 June 1949.

Formal international competition in deaf sport began with the 1924 Paris Silent Games, organized by the Comité International des Sports des Sourds, CISS ( The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf ).

Formal fallacies occur when there is a problem with the form, or structure, of the argument.

Formal recognition confers certain legal benefits and rights upon a group, as well as providing them with the satisfaction of recovering their separate identity as a tribe.

Formal conversion to and affiliation with Tenrikyo are signified by an initial ritual called a " Besseki pledge ""

Formal forestry practices were developed by the Visigoths in the 7th century when, faced with the ever increasing shortage of wood, they instituted a code concerned with the preservation of oak and pine forests.

Formal Quebec French uses essentially the same orthography and grammar as Standard French, with few exceptions, and exhibits moderate lexical differences.

Formal power series can also be interpreted as functions, but one has to be careful with the domain and codomain.

Formal innovation characterised Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 ) in which the theories of the neurobiologist Henri Laborit about animal behaviour are juxtaposed with three interwoven fictional stories ; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify.

Formal European settlement began in 1664 with the purchase by the English from the Lenape of the Elizabethtown Tract, which encompassed lands from the mouth of the Raritan River and included all of present-day Union County as well as parts of Somerset, Middlesex, Morris and Essex counties.

* The College holds a Formal Hall every day of term except on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays ; dress is formal with gowns compulsory for students who choose to attend.

Schools Formal education came to Nanty Glo about 1898 with a school opening on what was then the Jackson side of the settlement.

The exterior of Selwyn College's Chapel. Selwyn College's Dining Hall, with the tables laid for Formal Hall.

Selwyn holds Formal Hall on every Tuesday and Thursday evening during Term at 7: 30 pm with a capacity of 120, tickets for which can be bought by all graduate and undergraduate students for themselves and up to two guests, at a cost of £ 9. 60 each for a three-course meal.

Formal methods is the term applied to the analysis of software ( and computer hardware ) whose results are obtained purely through the use of rigorous mathematical methods.

* Formal semantics – rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programs.

* Formal mathematical specification of logistic regression

** Formal verification, mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms

* Formal verification, also model checking: Attempts to prove, by mathematical methods, that the system has certain desired properties, and that certain undesired effects ( such as deadlock ) cannot occur.

< p > The aim and meaning of Formal Concept Analysis as mathematical theory of concepts and concept hierarchies is to support the rational communication of humans by mathematically developing appropriate conceptual structures which can be logically activated .</ p >

* Gottlob Frege publishes Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens (" Concept-Script: A Formal Language for Pure Thought Modeled on that of Arithmetic ") in Halle, a significant text in the development of mathematical logic.

Grammars: A Journal of Mathematical Research on Formal and Natural Languages is an academic journal devoted to the mathematical linguistics of formal and natural languages, published by Springer-Verlag.

Formal methods are mathematical approaches to software and hardware computer-based system development from requirements, specification and design through to programming and implementation.