Codify in a sentence as a verb

Laws should codify and enforce social norms, not contradict them.

"All this bill does is codify existing practice" was the same argument used in that case.

The solution is not to codify best practices; the solution is to use a better language!

You can't legislate societal values - good laws merely codify them.

All this bill does is codify the fact that you own the data on them, and that your data can't be taken without consent or court order.

Talk is cheap -- codify the intentions expressed in the blog post in a TOS revision before the current changes take effect.

It seems that there should be a bill/effort drafted to codify the freedom of the internet, and making DNS blocking illegal.

Jeez, how much longer until we can codify into law that solitary confinement is cruel and unusual?

But it's exceedingly rare to see a new language which approaches those problems or tries to codify those tools into first class language features.

The idea was that Rust would codify and provide language support for patterns that have worked well in making large software like Firefox fast and safe.

"In sum, a "men's rights" movement is not going to increase equality, because it is only going to codify more gendered division in the social fabric.

The api in codify is not so big that you wouldn't be able to clone anything that you made in it to another platform relatively easily.

It just means our squishy little chemical-bag brains haven't processed the new situation enough to codify it and share the information through our culture.

I submit that there are dozens of such architectural variances between MVC frameworks and that defining high-level terms to codify those differences isn't helpful.

Codify definitions

verb

organize into a code or system, such as a body of law; "Hammurabi codified the laws"