Its role is fundamentally normative.

Operational activities in support of normative principles

No State could judge a person's beliefs provided that they manifested those beliefs in a legal manner.

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

General normative framework for the protection of human rights

Sometimes there was a gap in the normative framework.

That term should not be confused with the concepts of auto normative acts (imposing obligations on the author) and hetero normative acts (imposing obligations on other States).

The transformation in investors beliefs is striking.

These beliefs have more or less authority based on the nature of the practices or beliefs and on the group in question.

This type of normative approach actually presents forced and repeated marriages.

Who believes in justice, whose beliefs are twisted.

Such beliefs have given the bird some protection.

Meritocracy is at the core of American conservative beliefs.

Such pillars express the religious beliefs of their time.

Bislama term referring to various customary beliefs and practices.

And there's another cognitive bias I'll call confirmation bias, where we tend to accept data that confirms our beliefs and reject data that contradicts our beliefs.

Davidson picked up this theory, and his work in the 1980s dealt with the problems in relating first person beliefs to second and third person beliefs.

As a corporate practice and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative.

I don't know I prefer to test their beliefs, scientifically.

Once again, social meanings are enmeshed within beliefs about heredity.

Staff of the regional offices are contributing to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

It had eventually been decided to take a descriptive rather than a normative approach.

Efforts to establish criteria necessarily mean developing sets of normative statements about administrative operation.

The Division for Treaty Affairs carries out most of the normative functions of UNODC.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

The Yezidis have held on to their beliefs for 4,000 years.

At a deeper level traditions are eroded with their sacred beliefs.

They spoke passionately about their beliefs and shared their ideas readily.

traditional beliefs have emphasized young children's need for training and socialization.

Strengthening linkages between the normative work of the United Nations system and its operational activities

Such self evident normative truths provide the basis for Parfit s defense of objectivity in ethics.

Normative ethics is often about moral values, and what kinds should be enforced and protected.

The regional offices are also expected to contribute to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

Strengthening linkages between the normative work of the United Nations system and its operational activities

Western culture is shunned and traditional Kikuyu beliefs like female circumcision promoted.

But many people resisted the new religion, favouring traditional beliefs and practices.

State and Entity constitutions forbid discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs.

For example, beliefs about what it is to be male' and female'.

This fact led to the construction of an international system of protection, both normative and institutional.

In 1999, UN Habitat adopted a strategic vision that sought to balance normative and operational activities.

A merely normative treaty would not serve the combined purposes of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

The concept of control would then have to be widened so as to encompass normative control.

Many brave Iranians were prepared to risk their lives to defend their beliefs.

Lately several demonstrations have taken place, organized by different collectives with different beliefs .

In the rural parts of Ecuador, indigenous beliefs and Catholicism are sometimes syncretized.