Sentence examples for norms passed from inspiring English sources

The rules are a surprise adjustment to the norms passed in November by the American bishops and formally approved as church law in December by the Vatican.

There was nothing  in the "vicious circle" of pathology he sketched that was culturally determined, but in the hands of others, the idea came to signify an ingrained system of norms passed from generation to generation.

Time, Inc, in an effort to catch up with a world that in business and cultural norms has passed it by, announced last week that editors would now report to the business side.

For Emily Coates, artistic director of the World Performance Project at Yale University and a former City Ballet dancer, the real problem is ballet's lack of self-reflection, which means that norms are passed from generation to generation unchallenged.

The universalists believe that cultural values and moral norms should pass a test of universal applicability and logical consistency.

The discussions that he films involve such matters as fair labor practices, gentrification, the legal ramifications of urban gardening, the push for change in traffic-safety regulations, school redistricting, police harassment of gay and transgender bar patrons, fear of deportation, citizenship-test study, and the laws and norms to pass a taxi-driver test.

As they work with this technology, they can begin to understand norms and pass that information onto customers.

Norms that are passed from parents to children, for example, should be extremely resistant to change and one would expect a high degree of correlation between such norms and behavior, especially in all those cases in which norms prescribe specific kinds of actions.

With economic self-sufficiency as well as freedom of thought, women have -- and are still -- questioning the accepted norms of generations passed and crafting a new way forward.

We assumed that phenotypic plasticity for migration was heritable by modeling genetically based reaction norms that were passed from parents to offspring (e.g. Brommer et al. 2005; Nussey et al. 2005; Dunlop et al. 2007).

Sadly Norm Saunders has passed on but I was able to interview Zina Saunders, his daughter who also is an illustrator.