Sentence examples for ancient norms from inspiring English sources

That will mean changing ancient norms that have allowed women to be treated as somehow inferior to men.

But it is noteworthy that, in the end, what may be described as the ancient norm always reasserted itself, whether in Europe, the Middle East, India, or China.

First of all, the West may be deceiving itself that education and roads, modernity writ large, will be a quick fix, correcting ancient behavioral norms and codes written deeply into the DNA of tribal groups -- in this case, Pashtun tribes but certainly not limited to them.

One can sense the expectation as the lights dim, while noting a New York Theatre Workshop audience notably younger than the ancient Manhattan norm.

Oxytocin, if it underlies these behaviors too, would perhaps have helped ancient populations set norms of behavior.

In contrast, in ancient symbiosis the norm is bacterial symbionts with small genomes and few or no ISs [ 10].

One such dynamic society was ancient Greece, whose ethical norms spread as it grew, widely, and perhaps it was no coincidence that those ethics were developed by philosophers debating alongside merchants at the central marketplace called the agora.

The Catholic Church doesn't ordain women and doesn't allow priests to marry, suggesting a supervaluation both of men and of one very narrow interpretation of the Apostle Paul's disparate charges to disparate ancient churches regarding gender norms.

It has since been narrowed down to be any story within a mythology a system of traditional stories of ancient times that affirm cultural norms and beliefs in which the characters and setting are thought to be of an entirely different world or breed than humans.

Ancient, dangerous airliners are the norm, not the exception, in Iran.

For 2,000 years these five classics, all associated in some way with the name of the ancient sage Confucius, were invoked as norms for Chinese society, law, government, education, literature, and religion.