Sentence examples for unwritten conventions from inspiring English sources

"Oreo" resists the unwritten conventions that still exist for novels written by black women.

"You don't feel part of all these networks with their unwritten conventions, unfamiliar to you".

The Commons Political Reform Committee said the UK was currently governed by a "sprawling mass" of laws, treaty obligations and unwritten conventions.

The government is currently planning to regulate the relationship between the Commons and a reformed Lords by relying on existing unwritten conventions and laws known as the Parliament Acts that limit the power of the Lords.

The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of the country, and consists of written text and unwritten conventions.

There will always be a larger proportion of any social group expecting that the unwritten conventions of etiquette be observed regularly, with few exceptions and no matter how quirky, rebellious or authentic you feel like being, there will always be boundaries of respect for others that you need to heed, as will be made clear in the remainder of this article.

By an unwritten convention the president must be a Maronite Christian, the premier a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of the National Assembly a Shīʿite.

He said his model for Jewish public expression was the way Israel marked Yom Kippur, when, through unwritten convention, no one drives.

While much power is consolidated in the position of prime minister, unwritten convention has historically dictated that it is not wielded in a totalitarian way.

At times he would throw coins or dice to decide the flow of movements, and ended the unwritten convention that dancers face the audience.

representatives from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa issued a firmly worded statement condemning the "obsolete, unwritten convention" of reserving the top job for a European, saying that making a selection on the basis of nationality "undermines the legitimacy of the fund".