A mere formality.

(c) Appeal and review procedures to be made effective and not a mere formality.

But will this December s vote be a mere formality? Experience teaches us to be prudent.

5.4 The author argues that in any event the appointment of a process agent is a mere formality.

A mere formality, for once you've signed this document the work of art is covered until it's returned to this house in good order.

It's purely a formality.

That was just a formality.

Formality isn't necessary!

Appraisal mechanisms in the services sector are nothing new. The key to having these appraisal mechanisms play an effective role is to have more effective supervision, rather than being a mere formality.

Medical care is more a formality than a reality.

Raisman hugged her gently as they awaited the final score a mere formality and tears appeared around Biles' glittery red, white and blue eyeliner when the vision she once wrote in a scrapbook became a reality.

Yes, two officers. No, it's just a formality.

It's just a formality. You artists are all bohemians.

Same formality and red tape.

Honoured one... why such formality?

May we drop the formality?

All this is just a formality, since there won't be a trial.

There is just one small formality.

Informing the wider United Nations membership about the work of the Council, it was pointed out, should be viewed as an obligation, rather than as a mere formality, especially when the Council considered matters affecting all Member States.

Suburban formality? It's a bit foreign in this neck of the woods.

Withdrawal must not be seen as a practical formality that was without consequences.

We make that observation because, in our view, Member States' consideration of the report should not be limited to a mere formality, but rather should be a reaffirmation of the Assembly's responsibility for issues of fundamental importance for the entire membership of the Organization.

As a mere figment, as a mere ghost existing in your wife's mind...

The written form requirement is for many a formality that is no longer justified.

They're conducted without any formality. Anybody can be heard.

Oh, a mere trifle.

It's a mere nothing.

I know you're not feeling well, but this is only a formality, although a somewhat unpleasant one.

He's just a mere boy.

It's nothing, a mere scratch.

This formality may frustrate the legitimate expectations of the other parties.

I, a mere reporter, a humble mortal.

Haiti subscribed to the Millennium Development Goals it did so deliberately and not just as a formality.

First, coordination among agencies is almost non existent the said Council is more a formality than a coordinating mechanism.

It's a mere scrap of paper.

You are no longer a mere child.

It is more than a mere concern.

Think of love as a mere episode

These are only words from a mere mortal .

These are only words from a mere mortal .

It was not enough as a mere concept.

Apparently a mere figment of your wife's imagination.

I'm not a real fish, I'm just a mere plushy.

That's mere theory.

Okay, I cheated, it was a mere 20 seconds.