Sentence examples for norm of behaviour from inspiring English sources

Among Christians, the Quietists, with their uncritical reliance on inspiration, may be regarded as having approached more closely to the fatalistic norm of behaviour than any of the commonly recognized partisans of determinism, such as Calvinists or Jansenists.

They are typical of the desire not to offend the world's biggest oil producer and the west's key Middle Eastern ally, a self-censorship that allows the Saudis to claim they respect human rights while breaching every known norm of behaviour.

Social interactions about travel may exert not only an informational influence, whereby beliefs are updated based on the experience of other individuals, but also a more subtle normative influence: conveying information about norms of behaviour within a particular social milieu.

Rather, says Dr Keizer, it can foster the "violation" of other norms of behaviour.

A place where the usual norms of behaviour are not quite the same and people want to believe in illusion.

Getting broader agreement on norms of behaviour in cyberspace is crucial, but it will not be easy.

So how do we decide who determines the cultural norms of behaviour and, when those norms get challenged, who decides whether the challenge is fair?

It is the legalism of the barbarian, and the instinctive political philosophy of all who are in revolt against democratic norms of behaviour.

Companies, he said, can shift public opinion with their actions: "What you need is attitude change and corporations [to] set norms of behaviour in other countries.

"The application of international norms of behaviour is a principle and part of all our activities and expected from any host of our events.

Then came the caveats, saying something like "freedom of speech must be tempered with self-restraint" or some informal norms of behaviour.