Sentence examples for wasn't codified from inspiring English sources

"Election law was one of the last things that wasn't codified in sectarian terms," said Emile Hokayem, an analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, or I.I.S.S., in Bahrain.

Apparently, it was decided that husbands would compel their wives to bend or break this rule if it wasn't codified.

Sex between men wasn't codified as a distinct medical concept until 1869, when the word "homosexuality" was coined.

While that predilection was noted as early as the sixteenth century, masochism was not codified as a concept until 1890.

Section 108 e) precludes us from relying on any understanding of the judicial insolvency exception that was not codified in §108.

Somali was not codified as a written language until 1972, and Mr. Farah's early schooling was in Arabic and Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia.

The question for the Supreme Court is whether that exception, which became official United States policy in 1952 and was not codified until 1976, can be applied retroactively to conduct that took place before 1952.

This book, known as "Erskine May," has become an important tool for understanding Britain's constitution, which, unlike the U.S. Constitution, was not codified in a single document and is derived from a set of laws and conventions.

Later discovered, the VIP room attraction in the Grand Lisboa involved 'shady characters' and housed 'shady businesses', all of which Dr. Ho supposedly sanctioned because the VIP-room contractual system was not codified in law and thus STDM, with Dr. Ho as its leader, played the dominant role in establishing rules and managing the system (Wang and Eadington 2008).

And the Hastert Rule was not codified, it was self-imposed - and Boehner broke it thrice over for issues he deemed important enough, such as avoiding the fiscal cliff and passing the Violence Against Women Act.

Procedures that aren't codified can be altered relatively easily by a highly committed, unified minority.