Sentence examples for codify rules from inspiring English sources

When you codify rules about how people should behave and live together -- in any justice system -- punishment becomes part of the equation.

The interviews follow a series of informally codified rules.

Bureaucratic decisions and above all procedures are grounded in codified rules and precedents.

A series of national instruments have codified rules for prospectus disclosure, mutual-fund regulations and early-warning requirements.

The treaty, ratified by 162 states and the European Union, codifies rules for the use of the oceans and maritime resources.

His father, a United States senator, had written the 1935 Wagner Act, codifying rules for union organizing and adjudicating unfair practices.

In the absence of codified rules of conduct, it is not merely possible that the rich and powerful will get the better of ordinary citizens.

required nationwide codified rules only with the advent of the railroads, when teams from one town could play teams from another.

Next came the 1949 Geneva conventions, which codified rules for the humane treatment of civilians and combatants, including prisoners of war.

Sumption is one of the guardians of a distinctly British system that is held together less with codified rules than by an ethos.

Organized spectator sports, of the kind we have today, with leagues and championships and codified rules, virtually all date from the nineteenth century.