"When our beds are full, we want to have a formal protocol to get someone into another hospital as quickly as possible," Ms. Budds said.

In public, the officers observed formal protocol.

So, yes, I used gut instinct as well as formal psychological protocol in my assessment.

The ISFC lacked formal protocols for delaying, postponing, or cancelling a production.

"There cannot be a formal protocol linked to the partnership, but outside it nothing is excluded," he said.

Then she broke the formal protocols of the open-mike comm system: "Hang on a sec."

This has become uncommon in circles not used to formal protocol, even often dispensed with amongst clergy.

But the hospital itself has no formal protocol, like marking each X-ray with a large "L" and "R," to prevent this from happening.

The French are also more attentive to formal protocol than Americans tend to be.

"We mustobserve the amenities of formal protocol, you know."