as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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.

(3) The label conforming to the colouring scheme in the table for oxidizing liquids may be used until 1 January 2011. .

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

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.

And that's really important, because there's no reason in this day and age that we should be conforming to a physical device.

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.

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.

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

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

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

3.1.8 Reservations to a provision that sets forth a customary norm

As one of Gorbachev s aides later testified, The Beatles were our quiet way of rejecting the system while conforming to most of its demands.

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

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

All Norwegian citizens who plan activities on Peter I Island must therefore report to the Norwegian Polar Institute, who may deny any non conforming activity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

In 1820, the first school in Finland conforming to the Bell Lancaster method was founded in Turku with the aim of making primary education more inclusive to the lower classes.

Ms. Pimentel commended the Government for establishing a programme to produce school materials free of gender stereotypes she hoped that it could also take into account non conforming sexual orientation.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The Jews say , ' Ezra is the Son of God ' the Christians say , ' The Messiah is the Son of God . ' That is the utterance of their mouths , conforming with the unbelievers before them .

The Jews say , ' Ezra is the Son of God ' the Christians say , ' The Messiah is the Son of God . ' That is the utterance of their mouths , conforming with the unbelievers before them .

The MOU clearly provides a means for, inter alia, determining and communicating guidance, the GEF conforming with guidance provided, reconsidering funding decisions under the Convention, and reporting of information from the GEF.

However encouraging, Czechoslovakia s peaceful velvet divorce into two states has not been the norm in Europe or elsewhere.

Moreover, income growth has contributed to improved education. Adult literacy rates in South Asia match the global norm.

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

The Big Bang of 1986, which de regulated financial services, made risky behavior in the City the norm.

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