There are no formal conventions that forbid the first name from corresponding with the patronymic.

It was obviously at the beginning of the 16th century a well-established phenomenon having developed a series of completely formal conventions.

Other, more formal conventions are therefore applied as well.

What was important in all these cases was his stress on art as a variable system of formal conventions, essentially abstract.

There was neither a signed formal convention nor even a signed protocol.

Both adopted the formal conventions of their day and exploded them into something unprecedented.

Too, as some mentioned, a formal convention would cost valuable time and would draw unwanted attention.

Whatever the formal constitutional conventions and party rules, the Prime Minister is normally in effective control.

The convention formal was held annually on Christmas Eve (Brown).

The organization's first formal convention took place on February 23, 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio.