Sentence examples for the only normative from inspiring English sources

Law is not the only normative domain in our culture; morality, religion, social conventions, etiquette, and so on, also guide human conduct in many ways which are similar to law.

This is the only normative data readily available, and does have weakness in that it includes older age women.

In many cases it has become the only normative principle that can be advanced by those wishing to remain within the field of Foucaldian scholarship.

The progressive, democratized, newly energized UN member states who believe they have history on their side as they reject the twentieth century drug war consensus can provide only normative and discursive leadership to the rest of the world, just as the drug warriors provided that leadership in the previous cycle.

Its only normative job is to ask whether the social processes currently characterizing scientific practices, recruitment, education, etc. are likely to produce the best theories and if not, suggest changes to ensure that they do.

For the ALPHA, no sensitivity or specificity data were provided, only normative data.

As Habermas (2003) has said, laws are not only normative, but also about facts.

Ra is, we can temporarily assume, only normative for Albert and others who adhere to this religious doctrine.

R2 is often said to be equivalent to "not everything is permissible", and thus to rule out only "normative systems" that have no normative force at all. 15.

The priority of the third standard is a striking feature of the Mohist theory, for it entails that in at least some circumstances, they advocate applying a utilitarian criterion to resolve not only normative questions but descriptive ones as well.

The only feature that the descriptive and normative senses of "morality" have in common is that they refer to guides to behavior that involve, at least in part, avoiding and preventing harm to some others.