Sentence examples for binding norms from inspiring English sources

Irish and British collective agreements do not establish legally binding norms and there are no legal rules on favourability or opening clauses.

Beginning with the bargaining level, Visser derives a five-point scale in which company or enterprise level is considered the lowest level (=1) and where central or cross-industry bargaining with centrally binding norms is the highest level (=5).

It highlights the core responsibility of WHO to set binding norms (2).

Progress has also included the development of widely accepted international binding norms recognizing the importance of coordinating global action against forms of corruption.

Noteworthy is particularly the commitment to strengthen the 'core mandate' of the WHO in setting binding norms and standards for its member countries and all other actors in global health – an issue widely discussed in the context of a Framework Convention on Global Health (11).

The instrumental principle seems to function as a binding norm of practical reason only if it is taken for granted that there are additional, independent standards for the assessment of our ends (Korsgaard 1997; Quinn 1993).

The instrumental principle says that we are rationally required to take the means that are necessary to achieve our ends; if the principle represents a binding norm of practical reason, then we are open to rational criticism to the extent we fail to exhibit this kind of instrumental consistency, regardless of whether we want to comply with the principle or not.

Instead, the claim of rational choice contractarianism is that the correct account of binding moral norms is one that implies that if these norms are followed, the outcomes will be Pareto-efficient.

When NGOs supported binding global norms for firms' human-rights responsibilities, businesses objected and the effort collapsed.

Perhaps the clearest expression of this theme is contained in Durkheim's notion of "anomie" (from Greek anomia, "lawlessness"), a social condition characterized by rampant individualism and the disintegration of binding social norms.

At the same time, a word of caution is necessary: applying 'democracy' to post-genomics R&D may raise false expectations about binding political norms.