Take the informal rules for passing.
Docents learn both formal and informal rules.
Cultural attitudes and informal rules for drinking are also important.
The I.O.C. has long had informal rules against conflicts of interest.
These are limits, informal rules – which are, of course, to be bent and broken.
"As in Russia, there were laws in Georgia, but then there were informal rules which trumped them," says Mr Sulkhanishvili.
We don't call it "slugging," just "casual car-pooling," but the informal rules and behaviors are the same.
Sending a ringer is perfectly acceptable, according to many of those interviewed, but there are informal rules to The Wait.
His four informal rules of ecology were catchy enough to print on a T-shirt and take to the street: Everything is connected to everything else.
Instead, deviance is defined by the formal or informal rules imposed by other people in the social context in which the behaviour occurs.
They argued that when the police enforced laws and informal rules against nuisance behavior in neighborhoods, reductions in more serious crimes followed.
