Sentence examples for reference to norms from inspiring English sources

The ideal of law, in contrast, involves a set of institutions that regulate or restrain power with reference to norms of justice.

Carl batting with a piano leg is a reference to Norm Cash of the Detroit Tigers, who once tried to bat with a table leg in a game where Nolan Ryan was extremely overpowering and threw a no-hitter.

Justification of any act of punishment is to be done by reference to the norms (rules, standards, principles) defining the institutional practice such as the classic norms of Roman law, nulla poena sine leges and nulla poena sine crimen (no punishments outside the law, no punishments except for a crime).

States make reference to political norms, such as sovereignty, whereas humanitarian INGOs derive their actions from a set of moral norms that justify their right to provide assistance to the suffering other, assistance provided outside the political realm.

Constitutional cases, Posner asserted, "can be decided only on the basis of a political judgment, and a political judgment cannot be called right or wrong by reference to legal norms".

The success of each method is evaluated with reference to four norms introduced.

Scientific enquiries and analyses are 'tested' — validated or invalidated — partly by reference to 'internal' norms of coherence and rigour, and partly by reference to 'external' considerations relating to the particular social and ecological context of the enquiry.

Determination of whether the QT interval is prolonged can be made in reference to population norms.

Reference to established norms would have facilitated interpretation of these results.

The effects of age and gender also need to be further explored, with reference to established norms.

The analysis of fallacies belongs to the normative study of arguments and argumentation, and to give an account of what the fallacy in a given argument is will involve making reference to some norm of argumentation.