One concrete outcome of the Conference will be to formalize, to institutionalize it so that users can rely on that information.

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How to formalize this idea?

那么该如何体制化这一观念呢？

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Piping water to these neighborhoods would formalize them,says Firdaus.

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In 2006, a group of "cutters" formed BladeSports International Inc. and started to formalize the obscure sport.

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Local neighborhoods plan to use their history to formalize streets with proper names.

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"Taken together, these two agreements formalize a strong and equal partnership between the United States and Iraq, " their statement said.

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