Examples of 'dead letter' in a sentence
Meaning of "dead letter"
Dead letter: This phrase is used to describe a law, rule, or regulation that is no longer enforced, followed, or considered valid or relevant. It implies that the original intention or purpose of the law or rule has become obsolete or ineffective. This phrase is often used in legal or administrative contexts to refer to outdated or irrelevant provisions that are still formally in place but are no longer practically enforced or applied
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- An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed.
- A law or other measure that is no longer enforced.
- Anything that has lost its authority or influence despite still being in existence or formally in force.
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A dead letter lost at the post office.
The case of the dead letter office.
Unfortunately these recommendations are still a dead letter.
It will be just a dead letter of the word.
Freedom of religion must not be a dead letter.
Prejudice and dead letter again.
In practice the socialist objective was a dead letter.
But that law is a dead letter nowadays.
These commitments have basically remained a dead letter.
The dead letter office.
The fridge is like a dead letter drop.
They remain a dead letter and have not been implemented.
Those promises had remained a dead letter.
This has been in the dead letter office for a while.
Its decisions have remained a dead letter.
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It was dead letter long ago.
Retrieved it from the dead letter file.
The dead letter box will once more be opened.
The blasphemy law is now a dead letter.
It is the dead letter of pharisaism.
But this commitment remains a dead letter.
Now that dead letter should be brought back to life.
I put it back in the dead letter box.
The dead letter of the word will not give life.
They should not remain a dead letter.
Dead letter boxes.
I think it is more or less a dead letter now.
It is a dead letter to them.
The law is far from being a dead letter.
It certainly became a dead letter after the abdication of its author.
The law there was often a dead letter.
A dead letter is one that can neither be delivered nor returned to sender.
Unfortunately his report became a dead letter.
It was in the dead letter office.
I will do my best passion for such a dead letter.
Ray is a dead letter.
In the end the resolution remained a dead letter.
It was a dead letter.
We will not allow them to become dead letter.
But legislation can sometimes be a dead letter without a true involvment from stakeholders.
Doctrine on its own is just a dead letter.
The law can not be a dead letter without life that pulses within it.
But in practice this was a dead letter.
Other former names include dead letter branch and dead parcel branch.
Constitution has remained a dead letter.
But it is a dead letter because neither side has honored its terms for years.
Postal service creates a dead letter office.
The roadmap remained a dead letter despite the good intentions of the international community.
So these texts remain a dead letter.
Everything is turning into a dead letter as States refuse to fulfil their obligations.
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