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

Fake elections are rapidly become the norm.

With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.

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

So within three years, from 2003 to 2006, we were able to get norm in place that actually changed the paradigm of how fishers went about deep sea bottom trawling.

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.

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.

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

3.1.8 Reservations to a provision that sets forth a customary norm

Rather, it is imperative to restore the powers of the Assembly derived from the Charter, particularly through leaving areas which are within its purview namely, law making and norm setting to this most democratic forum of the Organization.

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.

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.

According to Mamudu and Studlar, since the adoption of the FCTC in 2003, shared sovereignty through multilevel governance has become the norm in the tobacco control policy area for EU members, including having one international organization negotiate within the context of another.

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.

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.

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 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.

The Secretary General and the High level Panel define the concept of responsibility to protect as an emerging norm .

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

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.

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

We have become used to seeing those images and they have become the norm in our Muslim society!!!

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.

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