In response, the shipping companies formed a formal association to negotiate with the engineers.

Still, many branches of the Party continue to exist as formal and informal associations.

It was formed in 1934, and became a formal association in 1948.

A personal assault against him was considered unlikely, and he refused any formal association with Justice on the basis of conceivable conflict.

He has had a long, formal association with the University of Brighton in various capacities since 1982.

He was in effect (whatever his formal associations if any) a point man of British near eastern intelligence.

These small congregations belonged, however, to more formal associations of churches.

Despite its name, the Academy had no formal association with the Navy.

The result is a blend of soaked-in art-historical thinking and formal free association.

The church is non-denominational and has little formal association with other churches.