The success of bringing in a Republican depends heavily upon informal understandings.

Perhaps there was already an informal public understanding of some connection between disease resistance and working with cattle.

Nevertheless, the signs of at least an informal understanding abound.

The informal understanding was reached by five top Administration officials at a secret meeting last Wednesday.

He says in future private investigators might have to be hired on formal agreements, rather than informal understandings, of their duty to obey the law.

It is the lived realm of informal, culturally-grounded understandings and mutual accommodations.

We don't consider it a formal Cabinet decision, but an informal understanding.

A written alcohol policy has many advantages, for example leaving less room for misunderstanding than an informal 'understanding'.

There may have been some informal understanding to that effect, but there is nothing in writing.

What there had been, he said was an informal understanding between members of the two delegations that such a proposal would be reviewed.