Sentence examples for unofficial rules from inspiring English sources

One of the unofficial rules of American media is that pay-television bills always rise.

But Mrs. Singh quickly learned the unofficial rules of the road.

Along the way, some unofficial rules have emerged between the candidate and his aide.

But as part of efforts to systematize the retirement of senior leaders, unofficial rules decree: "qi shang, ba xia," meaning, "seven rises, eight retires".

Nick Clegg's speech to the 2011 Liberal Democrat conference broke a lot of the unofficial rules for these annual showcase events.

For the uninitiated, a local blog, Caught in Southie, helpfully lists the "unofficial rules" for saving parking spots, including: "If you move someone's space saver and park your car in its place, you have no right to complain about what happens to your car.

It was a rule, an unofficial rule: no liggers and no hangers-on.

There's an unofficial rule in the tech world: every C.E.O. must have a formative anecdote of failure.

Is Xi testing the unofficial rule that Chinese men at the top of the government must dye their hair to look vital?

Under an unofficial rule in the PDP, its presidential candidate rotates between the country's mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south every two terms in an attempt to prevent conflict between the regions.

This film, which takes its title from an unofficial rule of local football (while also alluding to the mercy killing of wounded animals), is a bleak, lyrical meditation on the frontier spirit and American machismo and its torments.