Sentences with phrase «acceptable norms»

Marriages approved and arranged by parents are the socially acceptable norm and premarital romantic relationship with or without marital ideation is strongly resisted and opposed by parents and elders in the family (Desai, McCormick, & Gaeddert, 1990).

They may call it gelee or something, but there's a layer of butterscotch goo on top of this thing that goes well beyond the acceptable norms of sweetness.

Our Nation needs to RAISE ITS STANDARDS, not allow lowered standards to become the acceptable norm.

For seasons, mens trousers have simply got narrower and narrower, becoming the acceptable norm of mens wear.

Speed dating has become an acceptable norm of meeting people you may be interested with (and conversely, who may be interested with you).

Even society as a whole is responsible for this lack of acceptable norms.

â $ œMost of the complaints that have been reported to ADI are from dog owners who have far exceeded the acceptable norm of treat feeding, generally considered only 5 % of the dogsâ $ ™ daily intake.

Senior counsel sitting in a discovery may be able to check their BlackBerry and still retain the thread of what is happening because of many similar experiences, but is that really an acceptable norm?

The value or otherwise of impulse regulation may be contextual, different for genders and replete with questionable culturally constructed value judgements as to what are the acceptable norms for behaviour and modes of experience; it tends to assume the priority of societal norms over individual phenomenology.