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Indeed, she said, it was a return to the norm for Japanese men, rather than a departure.

FEARS of a general deflation may be receding but in the rich world's housing markets at least, falling prices are still the norm.

Mr. Naimi sees no irony in all this because in Qatari terms, his weight and his choice of a relative as a spouse are the norm, he said.

At other times in this century, premarital chastity was the norm, and many did not marry until their thirties, if at all.

The norm design and design norm are described respectively with a stress on the relationship between them and implementation method.

An occasional deep breath is all right, but should not be the norm for maintaining breath control during running.

It's easy to imagine a near future in which paper books are the exception, not the norm.

Take, for instance, this particular first contact: as you know, this mission has required constant reroutings and detours from the norm.

A summary of test results for a large and representative group of subjects. The norm group is referred to as the standardization sample.

However, there is no need to fret over your meanness, as it seems to be the norm.

In a civilized community, especially if it had a sophisticated market economy, people wouldn't want "vigilante justice" to be the norm.

I surrendered to the fact that our lives are just going to be a bit different from the norm.

The total score and scores of somatization, depression and anxiety were all higher than those of the norm(P05).

Pete! Nice to see you Well, on top the norm, you know, wife and kids and work, I've actually gotten into doing some trading.

Eventually selective logging would be the norm for an enormous lumber industry, at least throughout the eastern half of the U. S.

It believed that was a situation which had to be balanced properly, under a revision of the norm-setting activities in WIPO.

For most of the last century it was thought to be an aberration from the norm that could be "corrected" , rather than a natural state.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

But for Chinese investors brought up in a system where state control was the norm for so long, the shift might take some time to sink in.

Cross-cultural movement has become the norm, which means that leaving one's native country is not as dramatic or traumatic as it used to be.

In war, of course, it is possible to be brave and afraid at once, and in Libya that was the norm.

Trained and educated in the ways of guerrilla war, many child combatants grow up in a world where brutality is the norm.

For more than two years leading up the president's death, political wrangling and unrest were the norm.

In Morocco, it used to be the norm for marriages to be arranged by one's parents; however, this is no longer the case.

As an organic part of a nation's traditional culture, the norm of family ethics affects one's behavior in a most direct and concrete way.

In the middle of the war, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the all-white primary system that was the norm throughout the South.

But even if such structures become the norm, bank bosses are unlikely to be able to shrink overall cost ratios, as some secretly hope.

In Jesus' day, small, family farms were obviously the norm, and there was no option outside of local.

While this may not be a problem if you're talking to a stranger, this should not be the norm within a relationship.

I'm sure that this does happen but as with the point above, I think it is the exception rather than the norm.

"I know it's crazy and out of the norm, but I really enjoy it. It would beat any store window in New York, " Novak said.

Though other important behaviors need to be considered as well, vocal changes that deviate from the norm can indicate deception.

After all, the USA was the land of (cooked) steak and fries; sandwiches and hamburgers were the norm for lunch.

Farmers continued to become divided, the norm of customary law suffered great damage and the closure of village community was broken.

It is now the norm for "no" votes to be counted, and less unusual for shareholders to exercise their right to cast them.

Single parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays.

It was the norm where I was, and I understood it to be required.

Whatever the original cause, the body gets used to responding quickly and rapid ejaculation becomes the norm.

But now, as a joint result of affluence and our general leaning towards introspection, it has become the norm.

As you scan futures markets for inversions, keep in mind that there is one area in which inversion is the norm.

Abuse and neglect in buildings controlled by state-owned units appear to me to be the norm.

I question whether such rationality is the norm among the British, American and European peoples.

With our clothing, high-rises, technology and more, we humans would seem to be animal kingdom outsiders, existing outside the norm.

I have a program to control the number of failures as ? I have needed 20 or more mechsreplaced in a month, which seems to be the norm.

Unfortunately, in most businesses, this is often the norm.

This went on for decades and was the norm, not the exception.

Until the market decides if Obama is good or bad for stocks, and to what degree, volatility is apt to be the norm.

As law cease to be bent upon a global scale, unity based relations shall become the norm amongst all species, including mankind.

With near-ubiquitous broadband and a growing employee roster of Gen Y workers, being mobile will be the norm, not the exception.

The communal culture, thought to be so revolutionary by Maoists and westerners alike, has been the norm in Shansi for generations.

I use it perhaps once or twice a day and that would be the norm perhaps for my collogues who use it.

Today field medics are an integral part of the exercise. In future urban assault, some expect twenty-five percent losses to be the norm.

The norm was that prices of goods on the shelves lagged commodity prices by around six months.

And yet we have succumbed to the tyranny of the popular, the typical, the average, or the norm.

The specialists did not uncover any noticeable deviations from the norm .

Still, dollar-cost averaging does make sense, especially in volatile markets, which seem increasingly like the norm.

formulary. Although nurse prescribing is still in its infancy, nurses with prescription pads may soon become the norm.

Which of these ways of running a country eventually comes to be the norm greatly matters.

Remember, dreary, sleepy, foggy mornings don't have to be the norm for you.

A WMS is still the norm for conventional warehouses and a WCS has become the standard for automated facilities.

Leather, canvas, or web, stitched or riveted and possibly reinforced with leather, with a one or two prong buckle, one being the norm.

Public debate and political competition (agon was the Greek word, which gives us our "agony" ) were the norm in democratic Athens.

However, XSLT syntax and methodology, a declarative paradigm, is not the norm for most programmers who use procedural languages.

"Quarterly change eventually based on spot indexes will become the norm, " he said in a note.

Things get problematic, though, if deflation happens over a long period and comes to be viewed as the norm.

From the context of the norm of invest right, four subjects could be found which are legislator, the right subject, the public, the jurist.

It doesn't take long for the team to expect this as the norm and the concept of reward for doing good work is lost completely.

Second, with the education narrative inquiry as research method, do research through oneself to break the norm of history narrative inquiry.

Will this be the norm, rather than the exception, from this point forward until the shift?

Four-part cent: Set up to pay tax the ideal of the valuation system and the target mode of the norm.

Or has the United States progressed so far rightwards that the right now is the norm?

But the big exceptions are Asia's giants. At the moment, marriage is still the norm in China and arranged marriage the norm in India.

Norm is always talked about in contrast with the deviation from the norm. They are mutually dependent and inseparable.

In this aircraft simulation context, uniform rectilinear movements are the norm, and variation from these occur in a gradual way.

"The disagreements of earlier this year should not be seen as the norm for the relationship, " said a US official.

Indeed, false starts are more the norm than the exception in the case of banking crises, for both high- and middle-low-income countries.

Yet not that long ago the norm was closer to a year.

"We were able to secure more funding through this program than the norm, " Wright explains.

Another form of chaos erupts when heroics becomes the norm, not the exception.

and harken back to the days where personal service and traditional receptionist was the norm.

A department shall engage public servants within the specified size of the establishment and the norm for its expenditure on salaries.

In the early days of the Mexican republic, social disorder was the norm.

Of his age, the child is above the norm in arithmetic.

However, toplessness was the norm in earlier cultures within Arabia, Egypt, Assyria and Mesopotamia.

But if corruption, dereliction of duty and abuse of power are the norm, then the system itself is corrupt.

Do not express opinions that deviate too far from the norm.

Marketing: In a market where uniqueness is the norm, standing out can be a challenge.

Real life has an affair is not one thing, people depending on the norm. How to let a person do not understand, the married what is?

In other words, television paints wealthy and upper-middle-class lifestyles as the norm and heavy watchers believe that it is the norm.

But federal court Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim said such behavior was not the norm for Malaysians .

But federal court Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim said such behavior was not the norm for Malaysians .

It seems that 'casual' English is the norm between Native English Speakers these days, and, I was rude to expect proper written English.

Instead, the Egyptian pronunciation of his name is the norm for English transliteration.

With hedge fund dislocation likely to continue for days, similarly strange moves, and volatility, could be the norm.

In much of Europe, where coalitions are the norm, political compromise is seen as a virtue.

The norm for teaching British English, "received pronunciation" is given clearly in the symbols of the International Phonetic Association.

Until recently, "double-dipping" , holding two elected positions, was the norm.

Today, top-level cooperation is as much the norm as debilitating factional competition.

In an emotional session of the Scottish parliament, frank exchanges were the norm.

according to the crack wide of the norm , the relationship of the diameter and the rate of the reinforcement are made up.

But there is still further to go in extending these examples of best more widely until they become the norm across government.

I've been fortunate in working in meritocracies most of my life, but that's not the norm.

Stasis of the category is the norm: the typical lifespan for a species is between one and ten million years.

and then the norm of sports and international conventions and practice are the reference of arbitration legislation on sports issues.

"In the real world, the laws go unenforced and impunity is the norm, " she said.

How the norm, marketing of perfecting the property right of mineral resources are an urgent problem that we face.

The movable form present a higher systemize a characteristic, have to compare for the norm of organization and management.

Computing is network-centric and multimedia is no longer a buzzword, it's the norm.

The last but not the least, homosexuality is not the norm only because of the minority.

Cold winters are the norm in this part of the world; temperatures often reach the range necessary for harvesting frozen grapes.

Whether it was or not, fault is now the norm.

In the U. S. , the norm is that the investment bank, not the individual, is held culpable for errors unless fraud is involved.

Adaptation to unpredictable change is not the norm, and change rates are relatively low.

Descriptive norms can be useful in encouraging pro-environment behavior if they suggest that pro-environment behavior is the norm.

In the information field, instant and universal communication of large quantities of data is now the norm.

However such a homogenous cluster is the exception rather than the norm.

At the crux of this grand pursuit is one basic question: Is our warm, wet, rocky world, teeming with life, the exception or the norm?

Nachos, cheese and beans always feature heavily and a delicious, spicy breakfast is the norm.

Adams and his contemporaries portrayed the natural beauty of the West in ways that moved beyond the norm.

The iconic RR logo is red, as is the norm with the company's experimental models.

Such positive results have been the norm for several years now, in contrast to the early 1990s, when opinion was closely divided.

This is a bit of break from the norm for me.

For the first time, soccer fans in the U. S. can watch every single World Cup match. Such is the norm in Europe, and in mainland China.

Radical weight loss diets may be the norm at this time of year but they could make you more susceptible to illness.

Toplessness was also the norm in various Asian cultures before Muslim expansion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

In short, the administrative accountability of institutionalizing the norm at the core of accountability is the inevitability.

Lengthy meals are the norm for Korean business lunches, with plate after plate of sizzling, spicy food coming in quick succession.

Historically, both China and the United States have experienced such periods when hysteria becomes the norm.

It's not the norm in my industry to provide generous benefits or very many benefits at all.

If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair.

But volumes since then have been running at only about three-quarters of the norm from earlier in the year.

Localized agriculture is still the norm for the vast majority of the world's poor people.

What with the the high cost of living in this area, double income households are the norm.

Eating of flesh also becomes the norm, and hunting does not cease as future generations can subsist from the plant kingdom again.

Web services have quickly become the norm for request response invocations in a heterogeneous environment.

And with civil servants hard-hit by the latest round of austerity cuts, working to rule has become the norm.

Over the last two centuries, his vision of the nation-state has become the norm. But why?

Given the scale of our financial crisis and taxpayer losses, intrusive regulation will be the norm for years to come.

Although the norm, but institutionalized after the scene is not conducive to flexible deployment.

These rules are related to the fees of the Registered Designs, the registered design costs associated with such issues as the norm.

It became the norm for women over the next 20 years and is still very much in fashion today.

In a country where haggling for almost everything is the norm, this isn't considered unprofessional or embarrassing.

While it's possible to simply fire off a request for help or file a bug report and then dive back off user lists, that's not the norm.

However, it's the exception, not the norm, when a camera captures a striking image.

Leg swollen! Palm worn! - this is the norm. But he never complain, don't shout tired!

The fundraising done by the two major party candidates is certainly not the norm.

Industry standards are becoming the norm as firms realize that standards are necessary for consistency, scalability, and integration.

Extreme heat, dramatic daily temperature swings, and violent storms are the norm in this inhospitable place.

I come from European football where winter breaks are a necessity and for many years has been accepted as the norm.

By restraining the norm of the weight vector, robust multiuser access interference cancellation is achieved.

My heart was working like a clock; blood pressure was high, but only slightly higher than the norm; the same for sugar levels.

Kidnappings, murders, suicide bombings, and ongoing offensives pitting the US Army against insurgents were the norm.

I've worked in demanding public service jobs where working into the night and weekend hours (again without more pay) were the norm.

Critics claim that China has acquired ownership of natural resources, although service contracts and other concessions are the norm.

Square or rectangular mud brick buildings with flat roofs and high walls was the norm.

If lower productivity growth is now the norm, then Britain's economic speed limit is lower too.

The World Anti Doping Agency said Ferdinand was lucky to have avoided a two-year ban, the norm for missing a drug test in other sports.

To separate the norm-setting functions of the WIPO Secretariat from those of technical assistance.

Back in the '80s, however, when Mach was created, single-processor machines were the norm.

In the 1990s it was the norm for CEOs to double dip as chairmen (which allowed them to report to themselves).

Those year-on-year comparisons are the norm for China and avoid confusion arising from short-term changes in the economy.

"Happy" emotions dominated the data when they were at home, while in the workplace "sad" emotions became the norm.

An example of this is in western Africa where HIV rates are relatively low due mainly to the fact that male circumcision is the norm.

The private sector is dominated by competition and turbulence. Performance-related pay is the norm, and redundancy commonplace.

This "MacGyver" method of climbing, where every jump becomes a new adventure, should not be the norm.

The plastic complementary energy norm is the norm of unbalanced force, whose magnitude indicates the global stability of cavern group.

Beyond the limits of the norm, is the growing point of description, making itself specific and vivid.

There exists a gap between the moral qualities of contemporary college students and the norm of socialist moral.

In Service-to-Other societies, exhaustion and frustration are not the norm as we communicate and share burdens.

One thing we still have in common with the past is quack techniques to achieve whatever body type is in the norm at the time.

Most donated equipment is designed for developed countries, where constant, reliable electricity supply is the norm.

There was violence between police and civilians -- as has also become the norm in times of crisis in Guinea.

One of the great things about design is that we can use our imagination to break free from the norm by rewriting the laws of physics.

Political killings, bribery, extortion and kickbacks are the norm in many places.

Or put it this way, homosexuality is not considered as the norm in our society when the majority of a population is heterosexual.

Unnecessarily long working hours are the norm, sapping productivity.

Tradition is the norm and unusual, wooden, colonial architecture is not, generally, a feature.

The norm has such characteristics as unified quantities, rationally low quoted price and independent quotation.

We are a five minute walk from the clean, refreshing Anna River, and daily swims in hot weather are the norm!

Consumer spending has held up surprisingly well in a country where high saving is the norm even in good times.

August 4 Southern Airlines from the branches that Henan, Zhengzhou - Taipei - Zhengzhou direct flights to determine the norm.

Instead, it may have entered a phase in which high unemployment is the norm.

In many work-at-home jobs, ridiculously short turnaround times are the norm.

The logical arrangement is clear, the language is flowing freely, composing type to meet to compose the norm request.

I'm pretty sure I'm a minority, as I found out, but do expect this to become more the norm in coming years.

The mechanical relation between fiber connections and convolutions may explain these deviations from the norm.

In fact, those with strong links to a manager produced an average of $588 of revenue per month over the norm.

Stuxnet must be the exception, not the norm.

This is increasingly seen as the norm, bringing despair to some and a sense of liberation to others.

E-commerce is a challenging and dynamic area where change, growth and innovation are the norm.

Macroeconomic stability is becoming the norm in a region that once was plagued by high inflation.

To Asian men American society has assigned as the norm a round baby face with earnest eyes, weak nose and weak chin.

Given the current economic conditions, that's less the norm these days, but it still happens in certain industries.

This ingress of nondomestic material has opened up the region as never before, with cross trading now the norm.

In its schools migrants are the norm, not "a small group with special needs, " says Yasemin Karakasoglu of the University of Bremen.

Throughout almost the entire span of human history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm.

The norm of reciprocity, Goldstein believes, obliges many guests to be more green themselves.

Back then, the multi generational family was the norm, we sigh.

The past three decades have been the exception, not the norm, in stock market investing.

Sturdy, compact chassis and daylight-viewable E-Ink displays are the norm across models.

The idea that news should be free is deeply entrenched on the internet, whereas paying for content is the norm on the Kindle.

These receive benefit in the advance of the tool of development, the norm of the plait distance technique turns.

It is still the norm for gays and lesbians to lead double lives, revealing their true feelings only to their closest friends.

So, about that jobs report: it was genuinely good, certainly compared with the dreariness that has become the norm.

In itself, Geithner's joke was not extraordinary for Washington, where self-deprecating fare is the norm.

Get extra help: Tutoring is the norm in Shanghai, with parents bringing in private tutors to supplement their child's learning.

Aesthetics is the essential characteristic of television documentary, and the norm for its creation and criticism.

Both she and her husband lived until their mid-70s, which for that generation was 15 years over the norm.

Meanwhile, unified the reasonable market rule the flaw to intensify has deviated from the norm the behavior the appearance.

For long stretches of history, having an idealized view of certain people and things was the norm.

One who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.

Growth just shy of 10% a year became the norm.

one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group.

Blue-sky days and a nice ocean breeze are the norm.

This trend continues, with knee length gowns becoming the norm, and pleats, puff balls, and short bridesmaid dresses.

However, low prices on the Internet, is because no specifications, much lower operating cost, once the norm, costs will go up.

For many students it is no longer the norm to finish college in four years.

Even among cars favored by driving enthusiasts, clutchless transmissions are becoming the norm.

"In some countries, smoke-free homes are becoming the norm , but far from universally, " they wrote.

As respectability became the central middle-class value, censorship and repression became the norm.

Among great powers, thinking you're special is the norm, not the exception.

The entrepreneurial mindset calls for changing the norm as the norm keeps changing.

Add that to the slumping support for the two big parties, and coalitions could become the norm.

It is sometimes the norm to have teams with members who don't all physically reside in the same location.

Creating targeted, local marketing campaigns using these popular tools will become the norm this year.

The unmarked category becomes the norm, with the other categories relegated to deviant status.

The iron ore quarterly pricing will be the norm, and its direction is the index pricing.

At the modern city society, the norm for keep order is the law, however in the country society, is the proprieties.

The disbursement of construction cost is reasonable, it can be controlled within the norm of the budget.

From a macro sense, the non-balanced economic development is the norm, the norm of non-balanced development.

The priggish 1950s, which erased the liberated flappers of the Jazz Age from cultural memory, were simply a return to the norm.

Multiple daily conference calls are the norm in corporate America.

When we compare one phenomenon to another in the same measuring class, we usually regard the one with a majority occurrence is the norm.

Some bands are so overloaded that long waits and interference are the norm.

Almost every project today has cost or schedule overruns, and project failures are practically the norm.

In Kinshasa, the availability of electricity in households is the exception, while the lack thereof and power outages are the norm.

the former establishes and intensifies the form, whereas the latter violates and destroys the norm.

Results: The norm of the Mental Health Test Modified toward Zhejiang Province was made.

And family businesses have long been the norm in Latin America, from mighty conglomerates to street stalls.

God's law (whether expressed in the Old or New Testament) is the norm for the Christian's moral life.

The norm was to get married and have babies and put other people's needs above our own.

In emerging economies, above all, bad inflationary surprises have become the norm (see chart).

Up to 1, 800 tickets, vouchers or banknotes per minute is currently the norm.

With five parties now the norm in German legislatures, such conundrums will surely become more common.

At IBM, Watson introduced employment practices that became the norm in big business decades later.

Today, I had the good fortune of finding a seat on the bus, not the norm in Peru.

Strictly correct business methods are the norm in Swiss banking.

For the poor, managed care is becoming the norm.

Such market-driven behaviour is likely to become increasingly the norm.

That our Colombian partners made good on their promise in this instance is important enough, but this is not the exception; it is the norm.