unwritten tradition

He had not only broken an unwritten tradition, but also asked a question.

Parliaments carry on their business according to both unwritten traditions and written rules.

While farmers make up one-third of the work force, by unwritten tradition they have been exempt from taxes.

More important, however, is the largely unwritten tradition which came to China from India.

I like the unwritten traditions of college football.

The unwritten traditions, from the mouth of Christ or the Apostles, are also important.

According to the unwritten tradition, the modern name comes from a brigand who was active in the region around Metsovo.

According to unwritten tradition, this directive was to be hung in each military office in Norway.

Following an unwritten tradition at the seminary, he said he would probably not teach after stepping down from the presidency.

"There is an unwritten tradition that is adhered to fairly scrupulously."

The Post Office broke so with an unwritten tradition for issuing stamps of past personalities only.

There is, he said, "an unwritten tradition" that former presidents and vice presidents testify only rarely before Congress.

The Pope denies Scripture alone is an adequate rule of faith, unwritten traditions must be attached.

Parliamentary Procedure: The unwritten traditions and written rules for conducting the Assembly's business.

Unlike with some other chanting traditions, Prostopinije remained a primarily aural, unwritten tradition for the major part of its history.

An unwritten tradition was that on horse racing days, gamblers would eat homemade Sachima at 20 to 30% discount there.

In an unwritten tradition of the sea, the crews of overtaking or passing ships coming together at sea never showed any animation.

The frequency and severity of canings in educational settings have varied greatly, often being determined by the written rules or unwritten traditions of the school.

According to an unwritten tradition, the Director of the ENM is always promoted to Admiral.

We do know through the unwritten tradition that the King and Queen tried to keep secret what had happened to them, but their disappearance by day aroused suspicions.

Presently the syncreticism of the later Greek philosophy found room for archons, which appear in Neoplatonism and claimed Plato's unwritten tradition.

This appointment marked a break with the unwritten tradition that Jat CEOs should come from within the company and should have transport engineering backgrounds.

His selection also "broke the unwritten tradition that All-Americans had to come from Yale, Harvard, Princeton or a few other Eastern schools."

St. Basil the Great even says that without maintaining the unwritten traditions of the Church, we "mutilate the Gospel" (On the Spirit 66).

A second hypothesis, that an unwritten tradition of this kind of parallel discant existed in England before 1500, "is supported neither by factual evidence nor by probability".