Sentence examples for human norms from inspiring English sources
When we were at war with the Soviet Union, we saw the world differently, but there were still certain basic human norms that the two sides accepted.
But even their actions hardly qualify as extraordinary because, as history shows, at moments of extreme danger, determination and bravery are the human norms.
The Russian foreign ministry insisted that the gas deal for which Ms Tymoshenko is on trial was completely legal, and called on the Ukrainian government to ensure that "basic human norms and rights" are observed in her trial.
This week's conference culminated in a detailed and strongly worded resolution that reaffirmed Islam's compatibility with universal human norms and called on religious institutions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and neighboring countries to end violence.
Our data confirmed this hypothesis suggesting that uncanny valley could be explained by violation of one's predictions about human norms when encountered with realistic but artificial human forms.
However, this picture of broad consonance was rudely challenged in the mid to late fifth century BCE by a new kind of thinker and political agent, the professional teachers ("sophists"), who began to ask whether the laws and customs (nomos, singular; nomoi, plural) embodying political justice were truly a reflection of justice in nature (phusis), or merely an imposition of arbitrary human norms.
Such performances were not worth so great a departure from the human norm.
The trouble with this argument is the assumption not only that there is a "natural" human norm but that it is self-evident.
Curiously, the computer software had identified Dehaene's brain as an "outlier," so dissimilar are its activation patterns from the human norm.
TV wrestling, for example, features big, steam-snorting guys who emphasize their sci-fi departure from the human norm with pancake makeup, klieg lights and tattoos.
The bombings of hospitals in Aleppo and Idlib are a violation of every human norm — and that's not including the barrel bombs and the chemical weapons.
