Unemployment is thenorm in this part of the country.
2008, Dennis Patterson, Ari Afilalo,The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade:
[…] the world needs a constitutional moment that will generate new institutions and actuate a newnorm.
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, inGuardian[1]:
"This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not thenorm."
2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, inRail, page 3:
Projects such as theKing's Cross refurbishment,Waterloo blockade, Scottish electrification and the Borders show that the industry can do wonderful work - but that must become thenorm, not the exception.
Arule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
Not eating your children is just one of those societalnorms.
2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney,Willpower,→ISBN, page230:
Peer pressure helps explain why people in Europe weigh less than Americans: They follow different socialnorms, like eating only at mealtimes instead of snacking throughout the day.
(algebra) Anelement of theimage of some (generalized) norm,the element then said to befrom the norm in question, orfrom the structure which gave rise to the norm.
Aquaternion algebra oversplits if and only if is anorm from the field extension i.e. if and only if there is some in which has field norm exactly equal to.
(chess) A high level of performance in achesstournament, several of which are required for a player to receive atitle.
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