Fake elections are rapidly become the norm.

Androcentrism Traditional therapies are based on the assumption that being male is the norm.

Fortunately, openly anti European political programs are not the norm, at least not yet.

A reservation to a treaty provision which sets forth a customary norm does not affect the binding nature of the customary norm in question in relations between the reserving State or international organization and other States or international organizations which are bound by that norm.

Examples of ancient iron work still extant are very much the exception to the norm.

Policy interest rates are close to zero in the major economies in the developed world, and outsize budget deficits are the norm.

Strictly speaking, the establishment of an international norm presupposes that there is wide support within the international community for such a norm.

A jus cogens norm is defined as a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of States as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted. Thus, by definition, norms belonging to the category of jus cogens apply in all situations and are unaffected by the outbreak of armed conflict.

Far from being the norm in scientific research, fraud and cheating are rare exceptions, and are usually quickly identified by other scientists.

With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.

Australia also welcomes the Secretary General's endorsement of the emerging norm of the responsibility to protect and his call to embrace that norm and to act on it when national Governments are unable or unwilling to protect their citizens.

There are some situations when officers keep a closer eye on situations that are considered irregular, or out of the norm in Spain.

Rwanda s success should be the norm, not the exception.

The compatibility of a reservation with the object and purpose of the treaty was a customary norm, although it was not a peremptory norm of international law.

Corruption is rife, state capture by powerful vested interests is the norm, and institutional effectiveness and capacity for reform are weak.

My hair would be, contrary to the norm, well styled.

The alternative to a US led global order is disorder, in which terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and economic protectionism are increasingly the norm.

Globally, casual labor, outsourcing, and job contracting and subcontracting are becoming the norm, weakening entitlements for workers and creating more job insecurity.

The responsibility to protect is a powerful norm of international behaviour.

India is a democracy. Transparency and the rule of law are the norm, and its government does all it can to fight terrorism.

It would be more logical for all agreements to embody a specific national norm for calculating pensions, a norm which does not exist with regard to emigrants.

The little girl, who believes this is the norm, screams in pain.

The entry norm should clearly state the approval requirements and any conditions.

Work sharing schemes, in many different forms, are becoming the norm in Holland and Denmark, and have made inroads in France and Germany.

The Swedish dialects in Finland are considered varieties of Swedish, and the norm for written Standard Swedish is completely applicable also for Finland Swedish.

Syria s Sunnis are increasingly invoking theology to justify hatred of the Shia minority, and forms of Sunni exclusivism, similar to Al Qaeda s ideology and worldview, are becoming the norm.

Moreover, at a time when performance based government is increasingly the norm, managing for results systems are becoming critical links between resources and results.

Yet, public infatuation with the external trappings of democracy is usually the norm.

That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

3.1.8 Reservations to a provision that sets forth a customary norm

The German authorities feared that the country s export oriented economy would suffer from the wide exchange rate swings that are the norm for global reserve currencies.

It is not so regarded in contemporary Britain and even less so in the non Western world, where unions of men and women are considered the norm.

France is at the high end of the EU norm, with a score of six.

The second is asymmetry in decision making and norm setting in international trade and finance.

In the process of discharging their mandates, they may clarify the scope of a particular norm.

As Eid Al Fitr (the end of Ramadan) approaches, women in Egypt are bracing themselves for even more sexual harassment than what has already become a disturbing norm.

It is clear that consensus would have facilitated the process of establishing a universal customary norm.

Hospital birth was the norm and, consequently, HIV positive pregnant women had access to antiretroviral vaccines.

To be sure, the sanctity of existing borders has become a powerful norm in world politics. Yet this norm has permitted the emergence of ungovernable and unmanageable states, whose internal wars spill across international boundaries, fueling regional tensions and insecurity.

In an era in which transparency and disclosure are the prevailing norm in most aspects of European governance, the politics of fiscal policy still look like conference diplomacy, circa 1815.

The incoming president faces extraordinary constraints constraints that will make it essential for other countries to do more if stability and prosperity are to be the norm rather than the exception.

A peremptory norm (also called jus cogens or ius cogens or Latin for compelling law ) is a fundamental principle of international law that is accepted by the international community of states as a norm from which no derogation is permitted.

Badly behaved movie stars and politicians skew ideas of the norm or of what should be acceptable.

In addition, paying teachers according to performance must become the norm, while ineffective teachers should be dismissed.

The fact that Europeans can marry only one spouse is both a legal and a cultural norm.