Standard of behavior

Usage examples of norm.

Similarly, the Iraqis have always had abysmal maintenance practices, and an operational readiness rate of 65 percent is the norm in many combat units.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the norms of Aggressor guerrilla warfare were already adapted for instruction of Americans and their allies in real-world unconventional warfare in the 1950s.

This was a measure designed to root out the Catholic heresy of Jansenism, which took a much more austere view of salvation than the acceptable norm, and which had adherents at high levels of the Parlements, especially in Paris.

This is a city where, for many a citizen, working nights is the norm, from a pit boss at the Flamingo to a counter clerk at a convenience store, from an exotic dancer in a live nude girls club to a criminalist working the graveyard shift.

Nakedness had become the norm on board, a general divesture of attire to which crewmembers male and female ascribed without comment.

For one thing, it experienced better weather than most of Eron in winter, and the excitement of its ruling craft would appeal to the young, along with duties that involved a higher level of physical action than he assumed was the norm for the scholarly, artistically inclined Eronese.

Norm Ballard, a second-rate Ed Gein who liked to waylay unwary travelers who happened by his out-of-the-way Nebraska farm.

Dry enzyme and glyceride spray was the norm now, blowing over us from head to toe in mere seconds.

She was surrounded by aliens which distorted the human norm, by pigmen, lionmen, lizardmen, birdmen, toadmen and others she could not begin to identify.

She was surrounded by aliens which distorted the human norm, by pigmen, lionmen, lizardmen, birdmen, toadmen and others she could not begin to iden tify.

Marleen Todd had been correct, A psychoactive drug that flouts the norms of society is simply wrong.

Lord Rasion, a ruddy, well-fed version of the Mirchaz elf mage norm, stood to welcome Relkin to a place beside him.

Despite poorly paid professors and regular assaults by segregationist state politicians on academic freedom of thought, Ole Miss students equaled or beat national norms in most fields in graduThe Warrior25 ate exams, and the school produced more Rhodes scholars than almost every other Southern university.

But looking out across those tightly packed roofs, splendor was not the norm, here in Shatum.

HARLIE is functioning well within his projected norms, but we have found that he is limited to solving problems only as big as the computers he is tapped into can handle.