The FDA encourages resolution of issues through informal mechanisms prior to the issuance of a 483.

One possibility was to strengthen peacekeeping operations using the Military Staff Committee and informal mechanisms such as the "Group of Friends".

This facilitates cooperation by acting as an informal mechanism of contract enforcement between states.

"There are informal mechanisms to ruin a career," said Melissa Parisi, a student.

The government has curbed the power of the military, but "the armed forces in Turkey continue to exercise influence through a series of informal mechanisms," the report says.

These roles are a powerful form of social control maintained through informal and formal mechanisms.

Collective efficacy: The effectiveness of informal mechanisms by which residents themselves achieve public order.

Employee voice is attained through both informal and formal mechanisms.

What differed about insurance going into the 16th and 17th centuries was that these informal mechanisms became formalized.

In other words, are formal or informal mechanisms of control the major influence?