Sentence examples for overriding norm from inspiring English sources

It does not transform thinking and is not an overriding norm, and has risen as a foreign policy issue only because it threatens the high politics of national security and material interest.

Whether Tunisia will oscillate towards Libya's draft constitutional model where Sharia law will tend to override secularist norms (as in Iran), or tilt towards Turkey where any religion's law cannot be the law of the land, remains to be seen.

Prima facie norms are norms that can be overridden by other norms.

In the fractious societies of East and Southern Africa, a government dominated by one ethnic group would be ill advised to override the cultural norms of another, even in the interests of reducing the spread of a disease that already causes four out of five young adult deaths.Governments are unlikely to launch campaigns promoting universal circumcision.

Complying with moral norms will surely be difficult on those occasions, but the moral norms apply nonetheless with full force, overriding all other considerations.

She treats norms about beauty and fashion as important and perhaps overriding reasons for action because she has internalized the idea that appearance is a criterion of self-worth.

Before it passed, he said, he emailed the Council to warn it that if it changed "basic restroom and locker room norms," he would be forced to support a state law overriding them.

Hers was overriding.

"overriding a doctor's recommendations".

The moral issue is overriding".

Third, moral judgment is overriding.