Sentence examples for norm because from inspiring English sources

In poor countries, live sales are the norm because slaughtered birds spoil quickly without refrigeration.

Renovations are the norm because zoning ordinances require that rebuilding be done on the original footprint.

"But it is exceptional that this has become the norm because of climate change".

It's a social norm because communities practise it because everybody expects the communities to practise.

"Our sensitivity is slightly lower than the norm because of the thickness of our material," he said.

Mr. Lee left in March and in fairness may have thought he was under the Silicon Valley norm because he exercised his options in April.

From a rational choice institutional perspective, people follow norms because they want to avoid sanctions and maximize rewards.

This panel "risks undermining democratic norms because laws and regulations enacted by democratically elected officials are put at risk in a process insulated from democratic input," they warned.

It is harder for members to find a happy compromise between the church's ideals and social norms, because the two are now far apart.

For the past thirty-five years, Iranians have also felt exceptional — and exempt from international norms — because of the country's claim to sacredness.

Queensland association of independent legal services director James Farrell said the state had broken "international human rights laws and norms" because of policies that had "made the community less safe" by focusing on punishment not prevention.