Sentence examples for normative expressions from inspiring English sources

In fact, Hart had nothing to say about the meaning of normative expressions such as 'ought' and 'must' or 'obligation' or 'right' (except that their meaning differs in law and in morality).

Events in Palestine during the first decades of the Christian era were of crucial importance to the development of Christianity as a world religion and to the re-creation of Judaism as a Diaspora community and the eventual establishment of Rabbinic Judaism as the normative expression of Jewish religious and cultural life.

It isn't just that semantic nonfactualism eliminates a candidate for the constant element uniting embedded and unembedded uses of the same normative expression.

When South Korea recently introduced a law demanding all online users identify themselves before posting to message boards, a Carnegie Mellon study of the effects showed that online participation did not drop in the long term but "uninhibited behaviours" certainly did: "swear words and anti-normative expressions" were significantly reduced.

According to Ziegeler (2008: 55), 'potentiality' is the 'common semantic denominator' of normative generic expressions and deontic modality.

The physics is an important internationally recognized natural science, which is a discipline that has strongly normative mathematical expressions.

Educating school administrators about how and why marginalized students are vulnerable to targeting for their non-normative identities, expressions, appearances, and behaviors is key to shifting anti-bullying efforts to a proactive approach.

Scholem was divulging a tradition hidden underneath, and parallel to, normative Jewish religious expression.

IDUs are more inclined to share injecting equipment when they are a member of a social network that is large, longstanding and dense (meaning many ties between network members), and when sharing injecting equipment is normative and an expression of social bonding [ 26, 27].

If it is true that the normative level of emotional expression is lower in Northern Ireland than in Serbia (perhaps because high levels of emotional expression are discouraged), then one might intuitively expect observers from Northern Ireland to judge any given case of emotional expression against this lower norm and thus give it a higher rating.

Previous research into emotion and time perception has been designed to study the time percept of emotional events themselves (e.g., facial expression) using normative stimuli from databases (Coan & Allen, 2007).