Sentence examples for to unwritten from inspiring English sources
Security experts say the most difficult category is what they call "amateur kidnappings," in which freelance opportunists try their hand, oblivious to unwritten rules that can help assure a safe release.
The Twelve Tables allegedly were written by 10 commissioners (decemvirs) at the insistence of the plebeians, who felt their legal rights were hampered by the fact that court judgments were rendered according to unwritten custom preserved only within a small group of learned patricians.
Under these regulations, buying the rights to unwritten books or making significant editorial changes to written works without a license is considered "providing a service," and therefore akin to trading with the enemy, something punishable with jail time and fines of up to $1 million.
Where conscious behaviour according to unwritten cultural rules and written instructions are not enough for safety, additional manipulation of unconsciously made choices might be used.
According to this statement, legal contracts specifying formal written rules and obligations could be a harder form of legitimate power than the cooperative norm, which only refers to unwritten unofficial norms, unofficial values, norms, shared values, rules of conduct, and beliefs that guide actions and behaviors.
They were a bit like illustrations to unwritten stories by E. Nesbit.
An attempt to juggle more than 250 ethnic groups has led to an unwritten agreement to rotate power between the Muslim-majority north and predominantly Christian south every two terms.
The presidency rotates every two terms between the country's largely Muslim north and its mostly Christian south, according to an unwritten code agreed to by the PDP.
Before the start of the cup finals, the challengers and the defenders reportedly agreed to an unwritten rule not to start racing in breezes below 7.5 knots.
The New York Times used the acquittal of Thornton Hains to condemn appeals to "the unwritten law" in the justice system.
Everyone is welcome, providing they adhere to the unwritten rules, which are to respect the space".
