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 programs conducted by universities are often used to build a knowledge base to drive curricula in sociology and community studies.

Formal constraints not captured by the grammar are then considered to be part of the " semantics " of the language.

Formal grammars are codifications of usage that are developed by repeated documentation over time, and by observation as well.

Formal muay Thai techniques are divided into two groups: mae mai or major techniques and luk mai or minor techniques.

Formal and Greco-Latinate names are generally used for the first ten types and can be used for up to twenty subunits, whereas higher order complexes are usually described by the number of subunits, followed by-meric.

Formal high-end men's shoes are manufactured by several companies around the world, most notably in England, France, Italy, and America.

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.

There are regular graduate Formal Halls and other events, including wine and cheese tastings, a brewery trip, punting, and outings to Oxford, Ely and Norwich.

Formal charges are used in valence bond theory for some canonical forms used to construct a resonance hybrid.

* Formal: Formal norms are generally laws that if broken will result in some form of punishment.

Typically, at " Formal Hall ", gowns are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for " informal Hall " they are not.

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

Formal power series are often used merely to represent the whole collection of their coefficients.

* Formal groups are used to define an abstract group law using formal power series

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 tourneys are often held to commemorate a particular event or person.

Those from EU member countries are entitled to free rooms and Commons ( the College's Formal Hall ), an annual stipend and exemption from fees for the duration of their scholarship, which lasts for fifteen terms.

Other than " Oi to the World !," songs from the album are generally not part of the Vandals ' live setlist, except for their annual " Winter Formal " concert at which they generally perform the album in its entirety.

Formal Dirichlet series are often classified as generating functions, although they are not strictly formal power series.

Formal employee-testing is usually planned and announced well in advance, and may have titles, such as Levels Testing, Skills Evaluation, etc.

Formal assessment usually implies a written document, such as a test, quiz, or paper.

Formal code reviews are the traditional method of review, in which software developers attend a series of meetings and review code line by line, usually using printed copies of the material.

Formal announcements, sent after the wedding ceremony, omit the time and sometimes the place, but usually retain the same general form.

The College Formal is an annual event, organised and run by a committee ( usually selected from senior students ).

Formal education usually occurs in postsecondary institutions such as vocational schools, technical institutes, community colleges, proprietary colleges, online educational programs or junior colleges.

For example, if a database contains the following table reporting editors who have worked on a given article, a query on the people not having edited the article on Formal Logic is usually expected to return “ Sarah Johnson ”.

" Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S. Hartman's Science of Value.

Formal verification of statements in logic has been necessary for software development of safety-critical systems, and advances in automated theorem proving have been driven by this need.

* Formal functions and formal imbeddings / by Heisuke Hironaka and Hideyuki Matsumura ( 1967 )

Formal sovereignty was evidenced by the existence of flags, constitutions, and other state symbols, and by the republics ' constitutionally guaranteed " right " to secede from the union.

Formal efforts backed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service began to save the red wolf from extinction in 1973 when a captive breeding program was established at the Point Defiance Zoological Gardens, Tacoma, Washington.

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 Pragmatics, the study of those aspects of meaning and use, for which context of use is an important factor, by using the methods and goals of formal semantics.

" Semantical Analysis of Intuitionistic Logic I ", In Formal Systems and Recursive Functions, edited by M. Dummett and J. N. Crossley.

Formal generalization of the pi – theorem for the case of arbitrary number of quantities was for the first time given by A. Vaschy in 1892, and later and, apparently, independently, by A. Federman, D. Riabouchinsky in 1911 and by Buckingham in 1914.

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 transfer of the ship to the prospective commanding officer is done by the Chief of Naval Operations or his representative.

Formal notation makes it possible to automate the task of validating whether a specific instance of data representation abides by the specifications.

* Formal Attic of Attic orators, Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, imitated by the Atticists or Neo-Attic writers.

Formal negotiations began in December 1991 at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ).

Formal procedures were finalized and HMX-1 began a long career of flying the President of the United States to and from the South Lawn and Andrews AFB, the home of Air Force One.

He is Chairman of Museophile Limited, an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University where he has headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster.