It has always been at least unofficial policy that the lights and sirens are not to be used for nonemergencies.

In the late nineteenth century, there was an unofficial policy of restricting blacks from immigration.

After checking with her colleagues, my doctor told me the unofficial policy is to prescribe marijuana only for "end of life scenarios."

The four said the office had an unofficial policy to exclude blacks from juries.

There was, as yet, no fighting, and both sides appeared to have an unofficial policy of not being the first to open fire.

The Council has an unofficial policy of getting local approval before a street name bill is introduced.

An unofficial policy employed by the whites, yet equally effective as the others, was "preference, not proscription."

He summarized the company's unofficial policy this way: "When in doubt, pay it out."

This slowly began to change in the 1980s and 1990s, with an unofficial liberal policy being put into place.

The regulations listed in a two-page release have been the unofficial policy of the commissioner's office for the last two and a half years.