They seldom call the necessary regular meetings, or when they do call meetings of Party organizations, they reduce such meetings to mere formalities.

这些负责人，或者很少召集必要的正式的会议，或者往往也召集党组织的会议，但是，这些会议只是形式主义的。

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Such laws and obligations are mere idle formalities.

这些法律和义务只不过是例行公事。

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In future, it advised, mergers must not be mere formalities, but must allow the rationalisation of staff and branches.

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Interestingly, the court also noted that five factors favored a finding of debt specifically, numbers 2, 4, 7 and 9 but these factors were dismissed as mere formalities with little non-tax significance.

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The corporate formalities were not followed and the LLC is a mere sham which serves no legitimate business purpose.

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