Sentence examples for powerful norm from inspiring English sources

Because reciprocity is such a powerful norm, contributing insights about your own interests can encourage the other side to reveal something about hers while also shoring up your reputation as a cooperative negotiator.

Border fixity the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory—has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics.

Marrying remains a powerful norm in Iran, and many laws still treat women as the property of men.

"Parents often have essentially a 'favorite' child despite a very powerful norm against it," said Dr. Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at Cornell University and one of the authors of the study.

They saw the possibilities of an instrument for which there was no obvious use or that would run against powerful norms.

One of the most powerful norms we have seen for building a group's ability to respond to emotionally challenging situations is an emphasis on proactive problem solving.

He contends in "Coming Apart" that there was far greater social cohesion across class lines 50 years ago because "the powerful norms of social and economic behavior in 1960 swept virtually everyone into their embrace," adding in a Jan.

For that, two useful work spaces C L J J, J ) and C L, θ ( J, J ) with three powerful norms ∥ ⋅ ∥ B, ∥ ⋅ ∥ β and ∥ ⋅ ∥ C are used, respectively.

Meanwhile, we introduce three powerful norms ∥ ⋅ ∥ B, ∥ ⋅ ∥ β and ∥ ⋅ ∥ C in the space of C ( J, R ) which are defined by ∥ x ∥ B : = max t ∈ J | x ( t ) | e − τ t ( τ > 0 ), ∥ x ∥ β : = max t ∈ J | x ( t ) | β ( 0 < β < 1 ), ∥ x ∥ C : = max t ∈ J | x ( t ) |. Let d B, d β and d C be their corresponding metrics, respectively.

It may turn out that the best thing that could happen to create powerful norms for healthy public politics in the US is to have a series of terrible undemocratic secret negotiations that remind us that some parts of our democracy won't happen automatically, but that we have to demand and invent them.

But the firing did violate a powerful unwritten norm: that the director serves a 10-year, nonrenewable term and is fired only for good cause.