Sentence examples for codify from inspiring English sources

It is a classic creation of the late 19th-century English drive to codify sports with written rules and centralised organisations.

But however effective it is as a piece of cinema, even a cursory look into the film's backstory – and particularly the public reaction to its release – raises disturbing questions about which stories we choose to codify into truth, and whose, and why, and the messy social costs of transmogrifying real life into entertainment.

They believe that tying employees to their employer for up to five years will, in effect, codify the practice under another name.

He also announced substantial changes to the way agencies will gather and store intelligence, which if carried out would be the biggest attempt to codify American spying since the aftermath of Watergate.Recent revelations about the extent and approach of America's spying courtesy of Edward Snowden have put Mr Obama in a tough spot.

Luxembourg amended its laws in 2011 to codify its freeport's tax perks.

"Too complex to resolve" is the new "too big to fail .Banks must codify what were once informal relationships between different units.

Because these rules are of such enormous utility, Smith and Hayek implored governments to codify and enforce them.

His rule coincided with the first proper attempt, by Harold Wilson's Labour government, to codify the conduct of trade unions; it also coincided with Edward Heath's efforts to bring in an industrial relations act.

Better leave that in place, for judges to interpret as they will, albeit in a messy way, than codify it further.Libel law, by contrast, badly needs reform.

In practice it might merely codify what America, China and a few others were doing anyway.

So he built a staff of 60 multilingual industry specialists and traders, based in New York, who could codify terms, certify shippers and carriers, and otherwise make this handshake business safe for Internet trading.