Sentence examples for changes to the norm from inspiring English sources

New Zealand has seen the enactment of revolutionary policy changes to the norm of drug prohibition that no other country has experienced.

Interbreeding also resulted in maladaptive (i.e. survival-reducing) changes to the reaction norms for acid tolerance in F1 hybrids.

The Vatican has asked four of its officials and four American bishops to gather in Rome over the next month to hammer out changes to the American bishops' policies, or "norms," and to bring them into conformity with the church's canon law.

The underlying male standard is invisible because it is traditional for most workplaces, and pregnancy leave would require a change to these norms; but in the view of feminist critics, this underlying standard needs to be exposed as male because in fact it is not equal.

This effect is small because 10 miles is a large change relative to the norms of travel indicated by sample statistics (mean distance is between 1 and 5 miles among the states, with 10 miles representing about 2 standard deviations from the mean).

It's going to take time to change the norms, but we need to get started now.

"We intend to change the norm that has become established here: that the state of Israel allows these deadly and murderous objects to be thrown without response and without being thwarted," said Netanyahu in a statement issued after the vote.

"We intend to change the norm that has become established … that the state of Israel allows these deadly and murderous objects to be thrown without response and with being thwarted," the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Thursday.

Although fatigue may be an issue, attempts were made to change her reference point to the "norm" by explaining that some patients are able to work during treatment, which is likely to alter her interpretation of the debilitating effect of chemotherapy.

"Xi is seeking to make substantial changes to some of the norms or conventions which were first put in place after the now infamous Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union that altered many of China's relations in the region.

It has been a more difficult task for women to envision sexual paradigms, to change the norms of sexuality.