Sentence examples for norms forbids from inspiring English sources

The National Panhellenic Conference, which adheres to rather antiquated gender norms, forbids sororities from holding parties where alcohol is served, which means that, at many schools, the most accessible parties for freshmen take place on fraternity terms, and on fraternity turf.

International treaties and customary norms forbid capital punishment.

Based on a true story, a young girl dreams of playing the drums despite social norms forbidding her from doing so.

The apparently relatively low level of sexual activities among the surveyed students may be due to the fact that both Islamic and cultural sexual norms forbid premarital sexual activity which is a justification for the encouragement of early marriage in these areas.

To call an action irrational is to express one's acceptance of a system of norms which forbids it.

The Rinpoche hopes to enroll girls too, but given religious norms that forbid monks from mixing with women, that means building another dorm and a suite of classrooms.

The public justification for the war is that somebody needs to uphold international norms that forbid the use of chemical weapons, and only the United States can do it.

Such norms include forbidding the consumption of pork and alcohol; requiring women to be covered down to their wrists and ankles; banning men from wearing short trousers; and prohibiting the observance of non-Islamic faiths and the wearing of non-Islamic religious symbols.

5 Fully 97% of Pakistan's population is Muslim, and religious and social norms strongly forbid extramarital sex.

So Gibbard suggests we would do better to think of judgments to the effect that an action would be irrational as expressing rejection of any set of norms which does not forbid it.

More precisely, a normative judgment predicating a normative term of a particular action rules out combinations of descriptive judgments concerning the action with norms that either permit, forbid, or require (as appropriate) actions falling under those descriptions.