Sentence examples similar to norm bending from inspiring English sources
All the illegal paraphernalia of torture and detention and assassination were legitimized as indispensable; yet there comes a time when economic norms bend in the direction of political discourse, when the irrationality seeps into the economy as well.
The Olympics-induced state of exception has long afforded government authorities enormous leeway to break norms and bend laws.
Bending norms and the military chain of command to prevent a disastrous presidential decision is not a reliable safeguard, and extralegal measures should not be how the United States prevents a nuclear war.
For the Glazers, the question is how much the pricing of the public offering is harmed by them bending the norms.
As for the force-deflection tests, the ISO norms indicate the three-point bending test as the most appropriate.
He quipped that the "best way to find Albany on a map is to look for the intersection of greed and ambition".Breaking or bending rules is the norm in New York state politics.
In America, after more than two centuries of rehearsal, there are settled norms that will bend rather than break.
As bending free-kicks becomes the norm in modern day soccer, implications for goalkeepers have largely been ignored.
Instead, they were bending the knee to a cultural norm of email correspondence whereby friendliness is obligatory.
In doing so, they are bending what have become standard cultural norms in the way of religion and progressive values.
