Unwritten books predicted the future, projected the past.

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.

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.

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.

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.