Sentence examples for norms force from inspiring English sources

There has long been debate among political scientists over whether changing social norms force the courts to rethink legal issues, or whether it is the other way around.

Stringent safety and pollution control norms forces the car industry to use higher strength steels in different components of an automobile.

The moral theory of contractarianism claims that moral norms derive their normative force from the idea of contract or mutual agreement.

The normative force of instrumental norms characteristically is contingent upon the agent's having a certain goal, their intending, or desiring, to reach a certain end, while that of non-instrumental norms is not so dependent.

Thus for Hart too the legal system is norms all the way down, but at its root is a social norm that has the kind of normative force that customs have.

The worry, their professors say, is that austerity may become the norm, forcing students to scale down or abandon their ESPN-fueled dreams.

Fredric Stollmack, the president of Weatherproof, said that unseasonable weather, once a widely mocked excuse for poor performance in the industry, is the new norm, forcing companies to make sweeping changes in how they manufacture and sell clothing.

"While the number of cases of domestic violence has been increasing every year in the slum, we felt there was a gap in reporting of such incidents thanks to lack of a support structure and societal norms that force women to keep quiet," says Nayreen Daruwalla, director of SNEHA's prevention of violence against women and children programme.

It has been suggested that a mental state has content only if there are certain norms in force for it.

Appealing to constitutive rules thus would mean accepting what we call MD normativism: It would mean accepting that expressions have meaning because there are rules or norms in force for their use.

Although illegal, Indian cultural norms often force payment of a dowry to the husband's family.