'de facto rules' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to rules that are accepted as valid, although they are not officially sanctioned or legally binding. For example, "The de facto rules of the group were established by the most respected members, and everyone adhered to them."
Additionally, endpoints of the given studies varied from postoperative vomiting, pain, or tissue oxygenation to bowel recovery time, which de facto rules out a comparison [79 82].
Additionally, endpoints of the given studies varied from postoperative vomiting, pain, or tissue oxygenation to bowel recovery time, which de facto rules out a comparison [ 79- 82].
Putin's recent preference for trade and investment requires a qualitatively different business climate in Russia, including the de facto rule of law and competent, honest governance.
Then he had tackled Chile's constitution, ushering through changes that, among other things, legitimatized his de facto rule by making him the country's President.
Fair behavior might be well-internalized and thus becomes the de facto rule, which is then reflected in subject expectations and leads to generous behavior.
Both the sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the sheikhdom of Abū Ẓaby laid claims to Al-Fujayrah's territory, but these were not accepted by Britain and had little basis in de facto rule over the area.
Some say the era of the de facto rule of the mighty top 10%, or top 1%, or whatever insidious sliver of the income distribution is thought to constitute the moneyed power elite, is upon us, or nearly so.
The aim is to make Japan's political system more responsive by ending more than a century of de facto rule by elite career bureaucrats at Tokyo's central ministries, and empowering democratically elected politicians instead.
After Pippin II of Herstal had defeated the Neustrians at Tertry in 687, the three Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy were united under his de facto rule as mayor of the palace.
In some countries, there may be a de facto "rule by consent" from abroad — if, for instance, you are an African working in a Chinese-owned mine and living in a company town, while receiving your vaccines from a Western nonprofit organization.
De facto rule by the assembly would be worse than the status quo, because the assembly would inherit all the powers held by the leader while holding on to its existing powers, under which it could at a stroke of a pen decrease its members from 88 to six and lengthen its election cycles from eight years to 15.
