It has no formal structure, apart from a website, and its meetings have been irregular.

ECONOMIST: Russia and its neighbours

Such information swapping was theoretically allowed in the past, but the IRS lacked a formal structure for doing it.

FORBES: Where's Nevada?

An e-mail has a formal structure so it can travel and arrive safely across the net, but the text within it is much more loosely arranged.

BBC: The future of fighting fraud

Nearly 2 million people around the world use a site called Github to collaborate on software without being part of a formal coordinating structure.

CNN: What if you could make anything you wanted?

China has been debating setting up a formal REIT structure.

FORBES: Revolution by Block

Mr. Fairouz took a similarly intuitive approach to adapting the book into a musical work, using both a formal musical structure and his own perspective to craft the sounds.

WSJ: One Man's Memoir of 9/11 Becomes Another's Symphony

Tokyo has differed from similar pledging conferences of recent years in one important respect: unlike in the cases of Bosnia, or Kosovo, or even East Timor, no formal international structure is being set up to co-ordinate the reconstruction effort and to shoulder much of the burden of administering a country that, after more than 20 years of strife, has only the most rudimentary governmental mechanism of its own.

ECONOMIST: Helping Afghanistan

There's something about rhyme, about formal patterns of accents, about parallelism in grammatical structure -- they give language a kind of magic and permanence.

FORBES: Why not a sonnet?

The governmental National Network of Centres for Education for Environmental and Sustainable Development (EESD) is a supportive structure of the actions applied at schools and in other sites of formal education.

UNESCO: Education For Sustainable Development - Cyprus