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How to use the word norms in a Sentence?

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There are norms, assessments, behaviors and institutional practices that might be taking their cues from the White population and then being sort of indiscriminately applied to the Black and Latina childbearing population, that’s incredibly worrisome because it’s effectively institutional level racism manifesting down in these obstetric clinical practices.

Ryan Masters

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Genius is not about conforming to societal norms, but about breaking free from them and forging new paths.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by anonymous
1 year ago

The muxes are a great example of how cultural diversity and nonconforming gender identities can coexist and thrive in different societies, they are a reminder that there is no single way to express gender identity, and that gender norms are socially constructed and can be challenged and transformed over time.

Jacobo Ramírez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What happens to all the embryos created but not used? Does it violate ethical norms of respect to create so many potential human lives knowing that the vast majority will be destroyed or indefinitely stored? in the most extreme case, imagine an individual using sloughed skin cells left on a bathtub by Brad Pitt, for example, to derive sperm or egg in order to reproduce.

Glenn Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s still part of the politeness norms that kids learn when they are growing up.

Jennifer Cramer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea of individual freedom and the ability to make choices without external constraints has been the cornerstone of many democratic societies. However, the concept of liberty is not without its challenges, and it is essential to strike a balance between individual liberty and societal norms.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
1 year ago

The president’s personal attorneys have attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate with the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity, these considerations require avoiding the public release of detail relevant to the investigation while it is ongoing.

Bob Bauer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The President’s personal attorneys have attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate with the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity, these considerations require avoiding the public release of detail relevant to the investigation while it is ongoing.

Bob Bauer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All nations, large and small, should be secure in their sovereignty, free from coercion, and able to pursue economic growth consistent with accepted international rules and norms.

Greg Baker/AP US

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are so many of us who lead inactive or sitting-based lifestyles or have sitting-based jobs, there are these social norms where if you are up out of your desk, people think you’re not working.

Keith Diaz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

Benjamin Weingarten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In these interactions, PLAAF( People's Liberation Army Air Force) aircraft did not adhere to international air safety norms. These interactions are unprofessional and/or put the safety of our RCAF( Royal Canadian Air Force) personnel at risk.

Le Bouthillier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin’s logic is not American or Western, russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin actions reflect Russian cultural norms and standards of behavior, Rebekah Koffler explained.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Putin was watching, he calculated that this would be the time he could actually affect an invasion and the consequences wouldn’t be that high, putin has calculated that the resolve to stand up for law and order, international norms, to take a stand for democracy and what it means to follow what we’ve seen during the post-WWII area, those things are really being challenged right now.

August Pfluger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our region is in a period of rising strategic uncertainty, the rules and norms that have provided a foundation for our stability, and hence our prosperity are under pressure, in particular from authoritarian regimes.

Marise Payne

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In other words, the CCP must integrate to survive, which means that it can not completely eschew existing global norms or systems even as it tries to alter them to suit Beijing's needs.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The United States’ continued participation on the ISS will enhance innovation and competitiveness, as well as advance the research and technology necessary to send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis program and pave the way for sending the first humans to Mars, as more and more nations are active in space, it’s more important than ever that the United States continues to lead the world in growing international alliances and modeling rules and norms for the peaceful and responsible use of space.

Bill Nelson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The LRC's preliminary House map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, it is a danger to our system of government that upends established norms and the emphasis on local control and local voices that Pennsylvanians hold dear.

Kerry Benninghoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I raise strong objections to such blatantly misogynist material, it reflects extremely poorly on the standards of education and testing, and it goes against all norms and principles of a progressive and empowered society.

Priyanka Gandhi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Chris Cuomo, one of the most popular anchors at CNN, one of the best-known names in television news, violated journalistic ethics and norms not once or twice, but many times and that’s ultimately what is the result of today’s news, Jim, what we didn’t know until tonight, Jim, is that an outside law firm came in and went through the thousands of pages of text messages and sworn testimony that was released back on Monday. So there was clearly something in those documents that was found to be a serious breach of standards and practices.

Brian Stelter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These actions reaffirm the U.S. government's commitment to impose costs on the Lukashenka regime for enabling corruption, human rights abuses, inhumane exploitation of vulnerable people and orchestration of irregular migration, and attacks against democratic freedoms and international norms.

The Treasury Department on Thursday

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Globally and nationally, I think we're at a similar place now, norms are being upended and questioned. People don't want to return to old ways.

Mark Takano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is against our culture, it is against our norms, it is against our tradition, we don't want things that are against our sensibility to be given priority in our society and therefore this will be a deterrent to anyone who supports them.

Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to break norms, we need to inform people in real time [ and ] we can do more complex analyses later.

Rochelle Walensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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