| 1. | Claiborne agreed to a respectful ceremony to mark the formal act of transfer.
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| 2. | On the fourth session of the Council the formal act of union was performed.
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| 3. | But what can these formal acts of contrition achieve?
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| 4. | It was also a formal act of forgiveness on the part of today's conservative Vatican.
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| 5. | The ritual also constituted the father's formal act of recognition of the boy as a son.
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| 6. | A victory in the war against terrorism can never be registered in a formal act of surrender.
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| 7. | Fears over the election lingered until the last moment, and maybe still exist despite this formal act,
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| 8. | But it was nevertheless no more than a formal act designed to allow the transaction to proceed.
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| 9. | But last week, Israel's parliament went through the last formal act of closing that historical political divide.
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| 10. | A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another.
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