Repetition and variation are formal strategies that are central to Lazzarini's sculpture.

These techniques are often combined into a formal strategy known as the campaign plan.

"You give us too much credit to say we have a formal strategy set down in documentary form," a senior official said.

Rape, to some extent, had always been a brutal side effect of war, in Bosnia-Herzegovina it was now a formal strategy among her enemies.

Mr. Klett employs a variety of formal strategies to capture time in his pictures.

But these formal strategies are not the only ways to guard against sudden hard times.

Our state doesn't even have a formal strategy.

Groups like the Situationist International bring to the table questions of how alternative media can be conceptualized as a formal strategy.

But his report said the Iraqis lacked even a formal strategy or a plan to reconstitute their weapons programs if it did.

It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found.