Sentence examples for an acceptable norm from inspiring English sources

We need to break a culture where long cases have become an acceptable norm.

Perhaps bad habits have crept up over time, and a week or two weeks have come to be regarded as an acceptable norm.

The business dealings of the Trump family and the raft of conflicts of interest that accompany them continue to send a clear signal to every would-be despot in the developing world that profiting from government service is an acceptable norm.

If every child in class only has five children at a birthday party, that's an acceptable norm that parents could easily embrace without ever realizing that one child, with or without special needs, has never been one of the five — unless, of course, that one child is yours.

Here's what changed – and why this "debate theatre" became an acceptable norm.

"Everyone is doing it, it becomes an acceptable norm and everyone forgets common sense".

If electronic cigarettes became a socially acceptable norm, lung cancer and emphysema rates would plummet.

It's not news to women that we are punished when our bodies deviate from a socially acceptable norm.

For example, smoking is a socially acceptable norm for men in some South Asian cultures.

The bombing of Syria by the western powers essentially and unconscionably establishes near total warfare on civilians as an acceptable "international norm".

Most homes, of course, don't feature violence as the dominant means of navigating life as an acceptable cultural norm -- or do they?