"Norm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exclusive attention. The rabbis occupied themselves with questions of practice and with making decisions, and they tried to unknot the entanglements of the discussions for the sake of extracting the norm, the definitive law. This is the case with Hananel, Rashi's predecessor, as well as with Alfasi,[113] Rashi's contemporary. Although, as we shall see, the French rabbi had studied the Talmud for the sake of practical needs, he adopted, so to speak, a more disinterested point of view. He did not ...
— Rashi • Maurice Liber
... this subsection shall not apply to standardized, secure, or norm-referenced tests and related testing material, or to computer programs, except the portions thereof that are in conventional human language (including descriptions of pictorial works) and displayed to users in the ordinary course of ...
— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
... Popu. Con. refuse to allow women to ad. them, but declare for equal rights, at Beatrice, Dr. Vincent invites to speak at Chautauqua, declines, goes later to hear debate between A. Shaw and Dr. Buckley, 727; sits on plat., at Miss. Valley Conf. at Des Moines, ad. Neb. Norm. Sch. in Peru, begins tour of Kan. on Repub. plat., speaking for wom. suff., 728; at N. Y. Con., Syracuse, shows how some women now compli. by press were formerly abused by it, farewell telegram from F. Willard and Lady Somerset, 729; ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... conditioned by the social pattern of which they are a part. Each society attempts to stamp the individuals with its own image and likeness. The success or failure of this effort to assure individual adjustment to the social norm and conformity to its practices varies with the prosilitizing enthusiasm of the society and with the ration of adaptability and ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing
... first place, I shall find present in the age which saw the birth of Christianity, as in so many other ages, a universal preconception in favour of miracle—that is to say, of deviations from the common norm of experience, governing the work of all men of all schools. Very well, allow for it then. Read the testimony of the period in the light of it. Be prepared for the inevitable differences between it and the testimony of your own day. The witness of the time is not true, nor, in the strict ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... of laws to regulate the details of the daily life, as a supplement to St Basil's Rules. He therefore drew up constitutions, afterwards codified (see Migne, Patrol. Graec. xcix., 1704-1757), which became the norm of the life at the Studium monastery, and gradually spread thence to the monasteries of the rest of the Greek empire. Thus to this day the Rules of Basil and the Constitutions of Theodore the Studite, along with the canons of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various |
