Sentence examples for be normative from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
As a result, the philosophical literature tends to assume a somewhat outdated mechanistic image of living things, resulting in a quasi-dualistic picture in which only human beings, or the higher animals, can be normative agents properly speaking.
Even those theorists who reject law's normativity, generally acknowledge that they must explain why law appears to be normative.
In a society as religiously diverse as America today, no one faith should be normative for the entire society".
Some are; but a medical system built on the assumption that such mastery can be normative would be an exercise in folly.
There is a lot of individual and couple variation, and even once a month, once a year, or never might be normative, desirable or even required for certain people.
Increasingly abstracted forms of pictographs provided a means of writing that was image-based; characters formed by the brush could be normative but also offered infinite possibilities for personal expression through ink modulation and idiosyncratic gesture.
The Sobolev spaces and their norms used hereinafter are normative (see [11]).
Thus, there is the constant tension between what is normative versus seeking to elude the norms.
The first is normative, the second sociological.
