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There are unwritten rules we tend to follow.
We see these unwritten rules most clearly when they're broken, or when you're in a new place and you're trying to figure out what the right thing to do is.
There are all these written and unwritten rules of the road, and those rules are routinely violated right in front of you, usually without consequence.
But here it is unwritten by law.
Unwritten laws and ethics of the Mafia code make it hard to trust in anyone especially when millions of dollars are at stake.
There seems to be an unwritten, but rigidly enforced rule in Hollywood these days, that every movie must be black even if it's not.
Its an unwritten rule that ninja's financial issues aren't addressed in ninja films, but maybe director Godfrey Ho was trying to kick some realism into the formula.
But it is an unwritten rule that on a Bond film the person who introduces Bond to the Prime villian always ends up fighting him, however on Agent under fire you do not.
Just because you are gay and watching a film about gay men and/or women does not mean you have to abide by some unwritten rule forcing you to say that it's good.
Israel’s unwritten alliance with the United States is a more convenient alternative.
Trump won the presidency by flouting virtually every unwritten rule of American politics.
If he abides by the unwritten rule against prosecuting even former Standing Committee members, he risks undermining the credibility of his anti-corruption campaign.
Since Deng’s final years in power, in the late 1980s, a form of collective leadership within the Communist Party has ruled China, with the same unwritten conventions protecting the most powerful from retribution.
Under Xi, however, collective leadership has given way to one-man rule, and the unwritten rules of behavior have been junked.
By violating Party norms and unwritten agreements among the ruling elite, Putin and Xi, it is becoming increasingly clear, understand that they can never relinquish power voluntarily without fearing for their future safety.
In fact, an unwritten but sacrosanct convention ensures that the Speaker almost never uses the position’s authority to suspend or expel errant members, except when there is a consensus between the government and the opposition to do so – which of course rarely occurs.
According to an unwritten rule that has emerged over the years, central banks can do as they see fit, as long as they keep inflation stable over the medium term.
Second, although Great Powers are de facto unbound by international rules on the use of force, they abide by a sort of unwritten “agreement between scoundrels” to behave similarly.
As a result of that perilous precedent, Russia no longer feels bound by the unwritten agreement.
It has broken an unwritten agreement that has upheld the Internet’s role as a space for global information-sharing and free discussion.
But overall, increasing responsiveness--if clearly not in a democratic mode--has managed to maintain the instability that does exist at a level and within a scope that marks a game of unwritten rules -- one of complainants confining their choler within understood bounds and of the government watchful over an ever-simmering stew.
Finally, an exit would force European policymakers to formalize their so-far unwritten and even unspecified rules for divorce.
Because it is vital to prevent that situation from recurring, an unwritten agreement has been forged to regulate capitalism: social stabilization through generalization of the welfare state, financial stabilization through Keynesian policies, and economic stabilization through high wage policies throughout the West.
Thaksin’s unforgivable sin was his violation of Thailand’s unwritten rules about how the country’s ruling elites are to behave.
Governments and international aid organizations have failed to take into consideration the role of Farhang, perhaps because the power of unwritten law remains largely inconceivable in the West.
Established parties seem almost to have an unwritten pact to play down the significance of immigration.
So it must: the wishes of the electorate, expressed by however narrow a margin, must be respected, even though referendums have no place in Britain’s unwritten constitution, which is based, sensibly, on representative parliamentary democracy.
For reasons that are now obscure, there is an unwritten rule that Commission presidents must be drawn from the ranks of past or current prime ministers.
Old social structures were destroyed, socialist customs and habits vanished overnight, former norms and unwritten rules were abandoned.
In Britain’s unwritten constitution, there is only one limitation on the power of a prime minister with a parliamentary majority – the right of voters to change their minds.