But here it is unwritten by law.

Unwritten books predicted the future, projected the past.

There's such a thing as the unwritten law.

I have the unwritten law on my side.

Israel s unwritten alliance with the United States is a more convenient alternative.

As a result of that perilous precedent, Russia no longer feels bound by the unwritten agreement.

There are also unwritten local rules of the road, which are generally understood by local drivers.

Thaksin s unforgivable sin was his violation of Thailand s unwritten rules about how the country s ruling elites are to behave.

We are, instead, the products of hundreds of millions of years of myopic evolution, and thousands of years of unwritten and then recorded history.

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.

Governments and international aid organizations have failed to take into consideration the role ofFarhang, perhaps because the power of unwritten law remains largely inconceivable in the West.

My delegation fully supports this concept, particularly since the fate of many Pacific Island people during the Second World War remains an unwritten chapter in the history books.

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.

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.

Whereas British democracy is deeply rooted despite its supposedly unwritten constitution, and the US constitution has been amended only 26 times since 1787, France has redrafted its constitution 15 times since 1789.

The Ontario Court of Appeal recognized that the principle of the protection of minorities is a fundamental structural feature that emerges from both the explicit guarantees and unwritten principles of the Canadian Constitution.

The latter do not need a procedure or constitution, but their actions must for practical reasons be in conformity with certain rules, either international written or unwritten rules, or the actor's own norms.

There is no such thing as the unwritten law... and anyone who commits a murder on the theory that it does exist... has just bought himself room and board in the state penitentiary.

The Government has been elected and its manifesto has therefore been preferred to that of any the other party, and there is an unwritten rule in Parliament that a Government is entitled to get its business.

He continued his interest in the study of the human voice and when he discovered the Six Nations Reserve across the river at Onondaga, he learned the Mohawk language and translated its unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols.

27. It was out of a spirit of respect for the Organization apos s written and unwritten traditions that the Republic of Belarus had put itself forward as a candidate in the forthcoming elections to the Security Council.

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. This has in large part accounted for Barroso s high hopes of getting a second term.

The conclusions could then address the form (written or unwritten) of unilateral acts, their effects, their considerable variety, their relationship to the principle of good faith, when they were performed and when they produced effects, and the conduct by which States evidenced an intent entailing legal consequences.

Author of several landmark judgments in civil and criminal cases, aimed at development of a Uganda Common Law Tradition by adaptation of the English Common Law to take account of the diverse and largely unwritten cultural and social mores of the Ugandan people administered as Customary Law.

As a consequence, whereas in the past working under the banner of the United Nations has provided staff with safe passage and an unwritten guarantee of protection, this is no longer the case, and staff are often at risk simply by virtue of their employment with organizations of the United Nations system.