10 sentences with 'formal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word formal and other words derived from it.
• « When the time came for the formal manufacture of a motor car, they moved their center of activities to a shed at the back of the Fords' house. »
• « Thus the political authority of the empire was bound together both by the formal bureaucratic structure of the satrapies (provinces) and by the bonds of loyalty between the King of Kings and his ruling subjects. »
• « The government of the late Roman Republic still took the form of the Plebeian Assembly, the Centenary Assembly, the Senate, ten tribunes, two consuls and a judicial system under formal rules of law. »
• « Even freed slaves, called freedmen, had limited legal rights and had formal obligations to serve their former masters as clients. »
• « Emperors who respected Roman laws and traditions gained prestige and veneration for having done so, but there was never a formal legal challenge to imperial authority. »
• « Importantly, the Parthians managed to gain control of the main Silk Road trade routes, even receiving the first formal diplomatic contact with China in the West in the process, and thus had a solid economic basis for their military and political control of the region. »
• « China and Rome never established formal diplomatic ties, although the leaders of both empires knew each other. »
• « In almost all cases, the new Germanic kings swore formal allegiance to the Roman emperor in Constantinople in exchange for recognition of the legitimacy of their rule. »
• « A complex and formal ranking system of nobles and courtiers, dressed in garments dyed in specific colours to denote their respective ranks, separated the person of the emperor from supplicants and ambassadors. »