The phrase "a single norm of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific standard or principle that is applied uniformly across a particular context or situation.
Example: "The organization has established a single norm of conduct that all employees are expected to follow."
Alternatives: "a uniform standard of" or "a sole principle of".
These laws all spring from a single norm, the law of the least means, which Rosmini, following Aquinas, posits as follows: 'The wise worker carries out his work in the briefest way possible' (Sapiens operator perficit opus suum breviori via qua potest. ST, III, q. 4, art. 5, ad 3um).
The institution of marriage survives as a choice — as a range of choices — rather than a single norm.
Libertarians deny the legitimate claims of democratic decision-making, while secularists forget that democracies include religious people as well as secular ones, and that genuine democracy tries to balance competing interests rather than impose a single norm.
The diversity in perceptions of norm may be due to an absence of a norm, that the norm is not well known to the public, or that there are several rather than a single norm.
For example, while middle-class couples might appear superficially to have adopted a single 'pioneering' norm of controlling fertility, wealthy professional parents and lower-middle-class shopkeepers were motivated by contrasting perceptions of how their responsibilities towards their children were changing.
To speak of a unitary "Indian culture" in a nation with multiple languages, religions, castes, classes and urban and rural populations with differing regional customs is, Nussbaum observes, as silly as imagining an "American culture" with a single set of norms.
But the report cautions against jumping to conclusions that national diets are converging on a single international norm.
The combination of error norms governed by a mixture parameter is introduced to yield a better performance than algorithms derived from a single error norm.
If we read d atemporally as all obligations past, present, and future are met, then the only relevant worlds are those so ideal that in them there has never been a single violation of a mandatory norm.
Gone are the days when a single statement piece of art above furniture was the norm.
