Sentence examples for norms serve from inspiring English sources

Violence against women is pervasive in South Africa where, as in many other countries, cultural values and norms serve to condone and reinforce abusive practices against women.

"Having mentors is really crucial with consensual non-monogamy because monogamous norms serve as roadmaps," she says.

For example, some animal names (such as cow, bitch and dog) are used as forms of abuse against women; these and other linguistic norms serve to reinforce the oppression of women and of animals.

In this case, the pro-smoking norms serve as trigger for the genetic influence.

Trump's "renegade campaign" and defiance of political norms "served them fine in the early phases," Brabender said.

The idea of the basic norm serves three theoretical functions in Kelsen's theory of law: The first is to ground a non-reductive explanation of legal validity.

The reconstruction of these structured signals is usually performed with an iterative least-squares optimization in which a sparsity-promoting norm serves as an additional constraint, or regularizer.

They say it lacks accurate norms to serve as benchmarks for comparing healthy and sick patients.

One way to do this is to use regulation to rekindle certain social norms that serve to slow us down.

Functionalism, in social sciences, theory based on the premise that all aspects of a society institutions, roles, norms, etc.—serve a purpose and that all are indispensable for the long-term survival of the society.

A secondary purpose was to examine whether descriptive norms could serve as a vicarious stimulus informing task self-efficacy.