Sentence examples for unwritten from inspiring English sources

But that's the trouble with an unwritten constitution: you can make stuff up.

Jim Crace's literary inheritance, he's said, is not so much the world of books as "the thousands of years of unwritten narrative, the oral tradition".

The events of the next 12 hours, unwritten but inevitable, will be nobody's fault but his.

When you search online there's an unwritten assumption that you'll get an instant answer, as well as additional information if you need to dig deeper.

Whatever your motives today, it is clear that by ignoring the ancient traditions of the unwritten British constitution you have provided all the laws that a hard-line leader would need to drive this country into dictatorship.

But O'Donnell, in the classic style of a civil servant preparing for every contingency, moved to protect the Queen ahead of the expected hung parliament in 2010 by codifying an established, but unwritten, principle in his cabinet manual.

In the past, there was an unwritten rule that EU institutions would police the single market and other technical areas of policy – from common standards for the composition of tomato paste to lawnmower sound emissions – while national governments would continue to have a monopoly on the delivery of services and policymaking in the most sensitive areas on which national elections depended.

"It is laden with unwritten language: the way you tie it, the length, the fabric, the way the pallu is draped over one's shoulder, the under blouse, the accessories, the posture," she says.

The unwritten deal is that Kadyrov promises nominal loyalty to Moscow of a region the Kremlin fought two bitter wars to bring under its control, while in return Moscow gives him a free hand to do as he wishes.

A lot of it is unwritten, unspoken.

"You know the answer," he told them: an unwritten law that at sundown blacks had "best be on their way" out of town, or face the consequences.