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.

Hospital birth was the norm and, consequently, HIV positive pregnant women had access to antiretroviral vaccines.

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.

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

With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.

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

And so we had, as was the norm, live in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages.

With 171 signatories and 112 ratifications, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was a powerful international norm against nuclear testing.

Norms of jus cogens were non derogable and the effect of this operation was to produce the invalidity of the inferior 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.

This commanding heights of the economy model was rejected largely because it seriously under performed, especially when state owned sectors were protected from competition (as was the norm).

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

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.

By contrast, where industrial stagnation was the norm, as in Latin America and Africa, most countries found it difficult to reverse the trend in the 1990s.

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

3.1.8 Reservations to a provision that sets forth a customary norm

During the 27 years that it lasted, huge growth in international trade, supported by non volatile pricing, was the norm, and large financial crises were absent.

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.

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.

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.

His delegation supported the European Union's pragmatic and sensible proposal for a standard series of three two year terms that was becoming the norm for the United Nations system.

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

Since validity was a quality that determined compliance with the reference norm, namely the Vienna regime, it was obvious that the determination of validity occurred after the reservation was formulated, by other States or, where appropriate, by a judicial body.

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.

According to Harvard Business School s Rawi Abdelal, this was the key event that set in motion the developments that would ultimately enshrine freedom of capital movement as a global norm.

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

But once the political franchise was enlarged, the working class got organized, and mass politics became the norm, domestic economic objectives began to compete with (and overwhelm) external rules and constraints.

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

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

Nevertheless, the earmarking system and the scarcity of financial resources make relatively small projects the norm under the Fund.

Korean men work some of the longest hours in the developed world, Confucian values praised them for not expressing their emotions, and for some, it was the norm to physically discipline their kids.