Normative used in a sentence

Normative in a sentence as an adjective

If you learn one thing from me, learn that male twenty-something techies are not the golden normative standard for all forms of behavior. Some people actually do like ads, a lot.

The real people feel o company where cute memes sound like 'don't be evil' start to sound like "for your convenience…" I don't have any normative message.

Chess insiders need the wonkiness of Elo ratings and normative comparisons. But outsiders and casual fans need the romance.

Your behavior is not normative, though. Even for very techy audiences, a lot of people actually enjoy getting email.

In some ways, it is like the very ubiquity of technology has led us back to a world where socially normative gender roles take hold all over again"

Society adapts, in part, by giving socially acceptable deeds a normative description and concept. The socially acceptable statements lag the deeds, not lead them.

The reason for this requirement to repeatedly pop up in bid documents is misapplication of a poorly drafted standard by people who are theoretically experts at enforcing it's normative intent. I would love to throw in an additional anecdote here, but it would violate a confidence.

There are people who use exceptions as part of handling normal conditions and there are people who use lawsuits as a normative way of doing business, and I try very hard to work with neither with about the same level of distaste. Documents like this make it pretty clear what side of the line they're on, as this clause only comes about with an army of lawyers with nothing better to do.

All of these statements are couched in a normative principle: that the singular pursuit of profit will lead to maximization of the pie, and thus the greatest overall welfare. This normative principle was defensible in the 18th century, though Adam Smith never took it to quite the extremes that we have today, but is pretty solidly indefensible based on what we know about economics in 2011.

This is regardless of the textbook definitions of what these philosophies should, in the normative sense, be. For example, if you ask somebody of any of these various personal philosophies, regardless of what the textbook definition is, to self identify, they'll say "conservative" or "libertarian" and often they'll self-identify as both...

I have no sympathy for someone who reads the descriptive parts of the specification, trying to build their implementation from examples, and then ignores the machine-parse-able, normative grammar at the bottom: if you aren't reading the specification, you are not qualified to build a server for it. Seriously: this guy seems to believe that the correct way to implement something is with a massive set of examples and test cases, where you massage your implementation until all of the examples work right and all the tests pass.

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The distinction Krugman makes between positive and normative economics is a useful one. On the positive side, I think Krugman and DeLong are overestimating the strength of the floor for the value of a dollar. Hyperinflation would make it impossible for the Federal Reserve to buy up enough dollars to stabilize the value of the currency. Sure, you can pay taxes with them, but the government collects taxes to buy things, and if people no longer have faith in the dollar, the government won't be able to buy things with those tax dollars. There's no floor on the value of Bitcoin, but there's no floor on the value of the dollar either. On the normative side, I don't think one's position on the utility of central banking matters when it comes to Bitcoin.

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