Fake elections are rapidly become the 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.

In the US, the rate of relative poverty exceeds 20 .

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

Automatic fines would punish any country whose debt to GDP ratio exceeds the Maastricht Treaty s 60 cap or whose budget deficit exceeds the 3 of GDP limit.

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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.

For example, in financially distressed Spain, unemployment now exceeds 20 .

In China, this proportion of fixed, illiquid assets exceeds 90 .

This amount exceeds a full year's worth of Mission costs.

The number of seats rarely exceeds 400, even in very large countries.

This provision clearly exceeds the scope usually considered normal for international rules.

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

The flow of workers out of employment exceeds the flow back into employment.

But when prices are falling, the real interest rate exceeds the nominal rate.

For one out of four US mortgages, the debt exceeds the home s value.

The prevailing depth is 3000 meters, and the maximum depth exceeds 4500 meters.

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.

China is running external surpluses because its saving exceeds its investment.

This exceeds the amount outstanding at 30 September 2004 by over 14 million.

In fact, the Yemeni population exceeds the population of all six GCC members combined.

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

Our external debt exceeds 4 billion, more than 3,000 of annual exports.

Greece s youth unemployment rate now exceeds 60 , and Spain s is above 50 .

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.

That Americans are willing to pay this suggests that the option value exceeds the costs.

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.

Concerning human poverty, Mozambique appears between the countries where this exceeds 50 of the total population.

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.

Monetarists insist that economies experience inflation when money supply growth persistently exceeds output growth.

The discussion on disarmament machinery, however, exceeds the scope of improving the effectiveness of the First Committee.

Even after a year of excruciating spending cuts, the budget deficit still exceeds 10 of GDP.

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

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

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.