Sentence examples for was normative from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
His purpose was not only to preserve a storehouse of tradition and learning but also to decide which statement of Halakhot (laws) was normative.
It is not possible, therefore, to speak of a universal acceptance of classic Christology; rather, classic Christology was normative only in the Western church.
The predictive function informs what we will do; the adjudicative function informs whether what we did was normative.
There was normative judgment: this is a bad thing that shouldn't have happened.
In the context of occupation effects and being away from home, having sex outside the marriage was normative and routine, with 77.9% of drivers stating that HIV/AIDS was part of the transport profession.
Our finding that smoking was normative for men but not women is common for Islamic 2 and Southeast Asian 30 countries.
The Sobolev spaces and their norms used hereinafter are normative (see [11]).
Thus, there is the constant tension between what is normative versus seeking to elude the norms.
Norms are social conventions; they're normative because they're useful, and they're not codified because they don't have to be.
