Instead, political life here has been reduced to mere formality.

This facilitates the steps involved in creating and developing an SME, and provides assistance and advice to entrepreneurs.

We need to re consider how we define our democracies, which appear to be mere formalities with little real substance.

According to his opponents, Morales is reproducing the tradition of caudillismo, concentrating power in his hands and turning government institutions into mere formalities.

Since 1998, Mongolia had been negotiating an agreement with its two neighbours, the Russian Federation and China, to reduce cross border transport costs and associated formalities, and the prospects were good for concluding an agreement in that regard.