Sentence examples for sole norm from inspiring English sources

For Orthodox Jews, therefore, the Law is immutably fixed and remains the sole norm of religious observance.

The Second Helvetic Confession discussed the ancient dogmas of the Trinity and Christology and those beliefs emphasized by the Reformation: Scripture as the sole norm of belief, and condemnation of the use of images in worship, law, gospel, and faith.

This puritanical education, proceeding in a climate of austerity, had as its sole norm the interests of the state, erected into a supreme category; the Spartan was trained under a strict discipline to obey blindly the orders of his superiors.

In Orthodox Judaism, therefore, both the Written Law (Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Oral Law (codified in the Mishna and interpreted in the Talmud) are immutably fixed and remain the sole norm of religious observance.

And even had the one-child policy done nothing to reduce births, the endless reiteration of slogans like "one more baby means one more tomb" would have helped to make the sole child a social norm, pushing fertility below the level at which a population reproduces itself.

Art and architecture worlds per se are undoubtedly not a sole source of epistemic norms.

"Selection deals not with the genotype as such, but with its dynamic properties, its 'reaction norm,' which is the sole criterion of fitness in the struggle for existence".

Theodosius Dobzhansky "Selection deals not with the genotype as such, but with its dynamic properties, its 'reaction norm,' which is the sole criterion of fitness in the struggle for existence".

Before college became the sole viable pathway to a respectable career, apprenticeships were the norm in many professions.

Even if the sole or dominant purpose of the strikes really was to enforce the norm on chemical weapons, it still could not satisfy the test.

As long as writers treat religious identity as the sole factor that determines every Muslim's motivations or behavior, or imagine Islam as a source of universal norms, their Muslim characters will never be fully human.