Freeman was appointed to a committee charged with considering the creation of a formal body.

We need formal bodies to sustain such fruitful intimacy.

There has got to be a formal body to which people can complain.

The point is not to create a new formal body, but to seek a regional consensus and partnership.

It is a formal body which exists to give legal effect to decisions made by the Cabinet, and to carry out various other functions.

The committee was the first major formal body that called for a National Library as part of its recommendations.

Until this document, there had never been a formal legislative body in Ethiopia.

However, the professional body of scientists was still needed, therefore, physicists from all over the country decided to established a formal body.

A "mini-group," one official explained, is a somewhat less formal body than a "working group."

Within certain Jewish communities, formal organized bodies do exist.