Without following all these trails of church law, one might never know that the norms prescribe that accusations against priests be tried by tribunals constituted entirely of priests.
These norms prescribe behaviour that will symbolize the member's loyalty to the social movement, strengthen his commitment to it, and set him apart from nonmembers.
Traditional scientific norms prescribe that scientists, especially those in the dawn their careers, should focus on a specific, narrow area of research.
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.
The regularities in action (or rules or norms) made use of in such atomistic accounts of institutions cannot simply be a single person's regularities in action (or a single person's rules or norms prescribing his or her individual action alone); rather there must be interdependence of action such that, for example, agent A only performs action x, if other agents, B and C do likewise.
A lack of reproductive health education for young people [ 44] and rigid gender norms prescribing unmarried women to be virgins [ 8, 14, 45] contribute to reduced capability for women to access reproductive health information.
When we discuss the ethics of wildlife disease management, by 'ethics' we refer to a subset of the norms prescribing acceptable behavior in human social groups that is taken to be more fixed and fundamental than legal structures or rules of etiquette.
The interval between marriage and first birth was often relatively short and in many cases not affected by kin presence, but instead by cultural norms which prescribed that the conception of the first child should follow not too long after marriage (Liefbroer and De Jong Gierveld 1995).
There is an alternative, more natural way to account for the distinction between rules and principles in the law: the relevant difference concerns the level of generality, or vagueness, of the norm-act prescribed by the pertinent legal norm.
Legal norms can be more or less general, or vague, in their definition of the norm-act prescribed by the rule, and the more general or vague they are, the more they tend to have those quasi-logical features Dworkin attributes to principles.
