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

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

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

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

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

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

Fake elections are rapidly become the 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.

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.

With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.

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.

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

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

Today, it is almost becoming a new global norm that neither the international committee nor the US is prepared for.

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.

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

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.

In fact, a widely accepted security norm is that openness of systems makes them more trustworthy.

Here, what's spreading from person to person is not a behavior, but rather a norm An idea is spreading.

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

But casting aspersions on a nominee s patriotism was the norm in the McCarthy era it is less common today.

When men contract the disease through sexual intercourse, their proclivity for multiple partners is assumed to be the norm.

The same norm must apply to cyberspace, which is critical to our everyday life, economic well being, and security.

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

This traditional norm is detrimental to role sharing, freedom of choice and the social standing attributed to men and women.

3.1.8 Reservations to a provision that sets forth a customary norm

In the digital age, the opposite is true cheap computer storage, powerful processors, and ubiquitous Internet access have made remembering the norm.

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

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

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

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

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

Many of these women didn't even know this was a problem because this is what they ve seen in their families and they think this is the norm.

Similarly, the personal saving rate, at 4.25 in the first half of 2013, is less than half the 9.3 norm over the 1970 1999 period.

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

One example is the absolute prohibition on the use of torture, a norm so widely accepted as to have the status of customary international law.

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.

Article 53 VCLT A treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law.

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

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.

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