Sentence examples for silent rule from inspiring English sources

Rather than risk offending the squeamish, they follow a silent rule: if you can't see it on the plate, you don't have to mention it on the menu.

For the people who have lived here all of their lives, spontaneously opening their homes to friends and family is as understood as the silent rule that the summer wearing of shorts and flip-flops will eventually give way to jeans and Uggs boots in the fall.

"It's been a silent rule in Eastern Europe that you don't steal from your own people," says Stewart.

To combat the silent rule of beauty standards, Lowe advocates "feeding and nurturing" women with energy to remember that their hair "defies gravity".

I accused them of being too drunk and dangerous on the roads, unaccustomed to the silent rules of riding a bike in the city.

The same "silent n" rule applies here as in "main", but the sound is slightly more pronounced and sounds almost like an "M" sound.

"The current rules embrace a veto by silent principle that is not only unfair, it is undemocratic," said Edward Wytkind, head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s transportation trades department.

If the guidelines are silent, the rules say, an insurer may use "reasonable medical management techniques to determine the frequency" of services.

Silent communication rules out the use of acoustic modems which are the common mean of wireless underwater data transfer [9].

The third woman in the title is the pregnant, silent Willie (Janice Rule), a painter married to Edgar, a preening, hard-drinking TV extra who claims to have been Hugh O'Brian's stunt double in the TV series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

Since the public comment period ended in February, China's bureaucracy — always opaque at best — has been silent on the rules' future.