The phrase "core norms" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a set of commonly accepted principles that guide the behavior of individuals or groups. For example, "The core norms of this organization include respect, integrity, and fairness."
At a time when its core norms are being flagrantly violated, from Hungary to Australia, states need to publicly reaffirm its core principles.
But the degree to which he was willing to undermine core norms of liberal democracy became apparent whenever he engaged in a sly revaluation of Austria's Nazi past.
The comforting assumption that the past will remain a reliable guide to the future — that countries would not vote for extreme candidates when they never have before, or indeed that core norms of liberal democracy wouldn't come under attack where democracy has always been "the only game in town" — hasn't worked out very well so far.
The continuum runs from strict obligation (grounded in the core norms of beneficence in ordinary morality) through weaker obligations (the outer periphery of ordinary expectations of persons, such as great conscientiousness in attending to a friend's welfare) and on to the domain of the morally nonrequired and exceptionally virtuous.
b) Other Core Norms Some other core norms of CRC are relevant in determining the principles that should be integrated in the legal system.
For the past 20 years, it has embodied the core norms for the development of legal instruments, programmes and policies concerning children.
We gave these systems names like culture, core beliefs, norms, tradition, shared thinking, or "just the way we do things around here" — each term describing factors that are so slow to change as to become assumptions that limited either strategy or operations.
Thomas Scanlon's contractualism, for example, which posits at its core those norms of action that we can justify to each other, is best construed as an ontological and epistemological account of moral notions.
Our most vulnerable people – immigrants and refugees - and our core democratic norms now face extraordinary and existential threats.
But there is also a worrying erosion of a core democratic norm taking place on the left.
The duty of confidentiality is a core consensus norm within health care (Currie 2005).
