Word: formalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...groups discuss cultural, environmental, and social issues, the Soviet students said. Before these groups were accepted by the government, the only valid extracurricular organizations were formal groups instituted by the government and directed toward students' future professions...
...These two approaches--concern with the formal aspect of architecture and design and the social twist of that study--have been seen as very distinct, if not diametrically opposed," Burns says. "I think one can't understand the formal solutions and approach unless one understands the social side too. Studying buildings and formal aspects helps you to understand the social, and one shouldn't look at one without the other...
...negotiating team was present at the voting site to answer questions, but no formal discussion took place. The contract needed only a simple majority of teachers' votes to be approved...
...send a message to state officials that no one in the 350 ragtag subdivisions will rest until pipes are laid and water is flowing. Already, the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization (EPISO), for which she works, has made an imprint. Its nagging pressure since 1983 has snared endorsements, a formal commitment of water and a pledge for help in getting a delivery system of mains. But the Government has yet to produce one drop, or funds to dig a single trench, and for many, life's basic necessity may still be years...
...Great Bear of Paris. He never married -- "I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture." He had a reputation for misogyny, mainly because he rejected the hypocrisy about formal beauty embedded in the salon nudes of Bouguereau or Cabanel -- ideal wax with little rosy nipples. "Why do you paint women so ugly, Monsieur Degas?" some hostess unwisely asked. "Because, madam, women in general are ugly." This was a blague...