Sentence examples for norms apply from inspiring English sources

"It's not like when we go online it's this whole other virtual world where we become different people and completely different norms apply," Ellison explained.

For essential to morality is that its norms apply with equal legitimacy to everyone; moral relativism, it has always seemed to me, is an oxymoron.

Controversy also swirls around attempts to specify the class of beings to whom egalitarian norms apply.

Section 5 extends situation calculus to formally derive which actual norms apply in a given situation.

When people assume implicitly that their own values, beliefs, and norms apply to the people they're dealing with, conflicts arise and efforts to restore peace usually fail.

Complying with moral norms will surely be difficult on those occasions, but the moral norms apply nonetheless with full force, overriding all other considerations.

Earlier this month the owner of Norms applied for and received a demolition permit – not because he planned to destroy it, he said, but to keep his options open.

Popular choices include atomic and nuclear norms (applied to Hankel matrices) as well as norms induced by the so called stable spline kernels.

Failing that, "we will propose putting in place tariff locks at Europe's borders" until exporting countries adopt norms applied in Europe to issues like trade union rights, child labor and carbon emissions.

Susan Lee Johnson, in "Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush" (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), recounts how men left the familiar bricks and mortar, or at least the wooden logs and shingles, of home, family and farm, for a world turned upside down, where few of the old norms applied.

As it undergoes normalization, many say, Israel is slowly letting down its guard, losing its fear and relinquishing a sense of itself as a special nation living under such special circumstances that it cannot be judged by the norms applied to others.