Sentences with phrase «old norms»

I find myself questioning old norms and I know I'm not alone.

Turning from high politics to popular views, it's clear that Americans are concerned about these kinds of drone attacks - apparently unilateral, apparently violating the 350 - year - old norm of state sovereignty and conducted without a formal justice process.

Unfortunately, we need to file good old Norm into the «do they or do they not play Fortnite» category.

While 2016 traditional blockchain venture capital investment reached $ 496m (near - stagnant growth when compared with 2015's figures), a new method of raising money is challenging old norms.

I nursed my son till he was 2 years old this norm is widely accepted in my home country (Philippines) and now that I am pregnant with baby # 2 I'm looking forward to breastfeed her till she's ready to move on.

Like those excruciatingly awkward teenage years, the British body - politic is growing in ways which see old norms rub against the new as we experiment in unfamiliar ways.

Inflated Test Score Gains: Is the Problem Old Norms or Teaching the Test.

Given California's potent recent drought and what likely lies ahead as global warming proceeds, this adds to the logic of reexamining old norms.

We respect the age - old norms of international diplomacy that, when a country has accorded concessions and privileges to another, these are not removed or altered by a successor government, unless, firstly, the conditions under which they were granted have been reversed; or, secondly, there is proven evidence of abuse.

But apparently the church found it convenient to silence such objections, and the old norm prevailed.

The old norms of good and evil are outmoded.

Old norms must be questioned, inherited habits must be reexamined, and dead dogmas must be overturned.

Cause this seems a lot like the old Norm....

«But we are changing the planet so much that we can't expect to hold to the old norms.

The old norms which held women bound must be discontinued, if not totally eradicated.

With Boy Meets Boy, he basically set out to write the book that he dreamed of getting as an editor - a book about gay teens that doesn't conform to the old norms about gay teens in literature (i.e. it has to be about a gay uncle, or a teen who gets beaten up for being gay, or about outcasts who come out and find they're still outcasts, albeit outcasts with their outcastedness in common.)

But some of the old norms are still being assumed, even if they don't quite fit anymore.

All - male shows and accelerationist monogender discussions return as the new / old norm.

Politicians, after all, are mainly reactive, and locked into old norms for categorizing and dealing with problems.

A new model of practicing law is emerging, and it involves applying lean principles in challenging the old norms of running a law practice.