Sentence examples for less enforceable from inspiring English sources

The constitution of parents and children may, like the British one, be unwritten, but, as the Brits point out, that doesn't make it less enforceable or authoritative.

At the same time as Grayling was delivering his speech in the gleaming offices of a commercial City law firm, his colleagues in Westminster were publishing the jobseekers (back to work schemes) bill, a piece of emergency legislation whose sole purpose is to make one particular court decision just that little bit less enforceable.

This case law is sure to have a ripple effect that will cause patent plaintiffs to think twice about asserting a software patent before suing, and will get many companies with existing software patent portfolios to take a closer look at their existing patents to see if they have become less enforceable (and hence, less valuable) than before.

This nuanced shift is likely to make equality campaigners uneasy, on the grounds that "fairness" is a much vaguer and less legally enforceable concept than equality.

That means the bishops cannot settle for anything less than a uniform, enforceable code of behavior and punishment applicable to all of the country's 194 Roman Catholic dioceses.

And yet, I still have a contract with TechCrunch – one that's no less binding or legally enforceable than the one I have with my publisher.

Some commercial fishermen and fishing coalitions complain that there simply isn't enough data to judge the size of some fish stocks, much less define overfishing limits, made enforceable with fines or seasonal restrictions.

In 1969 a Labour government proposed legal restraints on unofficial strikers, enforceable by fines a development even less welcome to British unions than to those in Australia.

Economies might reap the benefits of foreign capital more fully if property rights were stronger, contracts were more enforceable, and if there were less corruption and financial cronyism.

Tong said that junkets and their backers recouped debts through traditional channels, even if they were not legally enforceable, but in some circumstances could use less conventional measures.

A "A verbal agreement is enforceable in court if the agreement was for less than one year or if no time period was specified," said Christina Fortunato, a landlord-tenant lawyer in Flushing, Queens.