Fake elections are rapidly become the norm.

We have become used to seeing those images and they have become the norm in our Muslim society!!!

In our days, which have all become similar to each other, death has become the norm and life the exception.

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

But this notion has been contentious in the West for centuries. Nowadays, gender equality has become the norm.

And over time, these neural pathways become hardwired, they become the norm even if it's bad for us because it causes us stress and anxiety.

EU citizens will be endowed with legally binding fundamental rights, and majority decisions will become the general norm.

What began just a few months ago as an attitude of protest has quickly become a social norm.

Accountability frameworks will become the norm, with lead agencies assuming responsibility for ensuring the delivery of technical support at the country level.

The Security Council should become more active in defending the nuclear non proliferation norm and respond firmly when States breached their safeguards obligations.

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.

At home, the new government needs to pay its civil servants, restore law and order, and end the chaos that has become the norm in the Palestinian territories.

That kind of procedure has become the norm, which is gradually changing the United Nations into an instrument by which the Organization's most powerful countries can exercise control.

These characteristics point to a major change in African consumption habits as this cohort ages, its incomes increase, and its behaviors and decision criteria become the societal 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.

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

With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.

These regional adaptations would become the norm, with reliance less on hunting and gathering, and a more mixed economy of small game, fish, seasonally wild vegetables and harvested plant foods.

At its seventh session, the Working Group noted that electronic reverse auctions were increasingly used as a method of procurement in those countries where e commerce had become a norm.

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.

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.

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

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

Back at home, mass disapproval of Putin s corrupt administration is rapidly turning into open contempt. What began just a few months ago as an attitude of protest has quickly become a social norm.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

According to Mamudu and Studlar, since the adoption of the FCTC in 2003, shared sovereignty through multilevel governance has become the norm in the tobacco control policy area for EU members, including having one international organization negotiate within the context of another.

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.

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.

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.

We should promote a public culture in the United Nations in which responsible political advocacy, without distortions or abuse, becomes the operative norm, a culture in which legitimate political advocacy or lobbying do not cross an undoubtedly thin borderline and become blackmail and corruptive practices.

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.