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In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald called it "Clinton's Trial by Chaos" and said in a commentary by its Washington correspondent that "beyond the elaborate facade of formality, the opening of the trial of William Jefferson Clinton was more reminiscent of a football scrum in a particularly vicious game."
Such structured formality helps ensure the widest possible participation of interested parties during the review, including specialists and consultants who bring expertise in such areas as value engineering, constructability, biddability,12 operability, maintainability, and environmental compliance.
What is behind this pseudo familiarity/equality, Prudie thinks, is California casualness and a touchy-feely cultural shift that have replaced formality and civility.
The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii’s patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.
Hambali claims he was asked to serve on the company's board of directors as a formality and insists that he did not recognize the "Arabs"who were to run the company or play any role in its operations.