Sentence examples for normative circumstances from inspiring English sources

On these theories, promising is a special sort of power we have over our normative circumstances, the power to invoke obligations by promissory utterance.

Their dramatic early years began with conception under non-normative circumstances.

Freedman and Kruk [ 109] posit that individual actions in violation of patients' rights occur at the convergence of complex personal, normative and systemic circumstances.

Distinguishing between whether a group has the right to secede (to repudiate the state's jurisdiction and attempt to establish its own state) and whether it has the right to recognition as a legitimate state enables the international legal system to impose normative conditions on recognition in circumstances in which new states have strong incentives to satisfy them.

If we have to care about what our ideal advisor would want us to do in order to be coherent, or perhaps in order to be self-governing agents in the first place, then the reactions of a suitable subject in suitable circumstances will be normative for us, regardless of our contingent desires and interests.

The program was informed by the understanding that behavior change is a function of beliefs, attitudes, and intentions - that are influenced by external factors, such as perceptions about the social normative practices of peers, socioeconomic circumstances, and the broader health care system.

According to the TCA, fertility behavior is the result of an interaction between a unique set of social circumstances (e.g., normative expectations and structural factors) and schemas, which are mental structures that the human brain uses to represent the surrounding world and to process information.