But Moscow had not formally embraced the informal proposal until now, and the Soviet Foreign Ministry even denied that the suggestion had been made.

By formally embracing a SOA approach, such systems can position themselves to stress the importance of well-defined, highly inter-operable interfaces.

Barak went up the stairs, briefly and rather formally embraced his wife, and the two of them went through the wide doorway.

Under the tutelage of Alexander Duff he formally embraced Christianity on July 2, 1843.

Until the world's dictionaries formally embrace "E-mail," it may not be appropriate to use on a Scrabble board.

Yet the Zirids would eventually break all ties to the Fatimids, even to the point of formally embracing Sunni doctrines (rivals to the Shi'a).

Early in the week, the Labor Government formally embraced a European Union package of worker protections that the previous British Government had opposed.

Chinese officials formally embrace use of the Internet as a necessary part of efforts to modernize their economy and society.

They embraced formally, as historians did, espe- cially when as now it was absolutely certain that they would never see one another again.

At the Party Congress earlier in the month, the Chinese formally embraced the economy's lurch to what the Chinese are now calling "diversified ownership."