Examples of formalistic

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Conversely, there have been many instances of absurd judgments based on the formalistic approach taken by judicial and other supervisory bodies.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Their formalistic interpretation of the law allows them to avoid getting involved, to avoid prosecuting these cases, and to wash their hands of them.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
To say this is not to take a formalistic approach towards jurisdiction and certainly not to indulge in any sort of legal nitpicking.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This speech would be laughable if it were not so boring, formalistic, stiff, and inappropriate.
And rather like scaffolding on a building, they just fall away in that formalistic way and the material takes on its own life.
So his silence on the matter allowed the formalistic face of intuitionism to flourish throughout the mathematical world.
Neither is this required by the need to avoid a formalistic or mechanical approach to the rules of the common law.
Rather, it was supplemented by new legislation adding more formalistic elements.
A kind of naturalism is seeping though the formalistic writing, but the tug of older, more rigid conventions is still very much to be felt.
Hence, it is unclear whether the ' western ' form of democracy will succeed in the region, beyond its mere formalistic expression.
They would not be recognised within a narrow and formalistic concept of delegation.
I argue against neutralist, formalistic versions of liberalism, and for a politics of democratic purposes and concretely empowering rights.
Our discussions of post-colonial nationalisms would remain purely formalistic if they failed to take account of struggles over resources, legitimacy, and meaning.
They only apply deductive and formalistic lines of reasoning and take no notice of anything that is not written in the laws or is not part of binding precedents.
A somewhat formalistic way of motivating the definition of the following two operators is that they constitute, in this respect, more familiarly behaved alternatives to product and inverse.
The refusal to give any special status to essential mathematical features like distributivity betrays a formalistic philosophy for which everything is arbitrary, and nothing is more important than anything else.
I should just like to impress upon you once more that this exercise should not be dealt with in a technical, bureaucratic or formalistic way.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
That not only distances the complainant from the procedure but also encourages inflexible and formalistic procedures.
From the
Hansard archive