social convention

Families are supposed to love one another — that's the social convention.

You have to understand - there weren't any social conventions from outside.

But fun, in their hands, became a weapon against social convention.

Social conventions of the period also play a large part in the play's plot.

One must submit to the social convention, and be 'cut off from what is called the world'.

It also serves as a social convention centre in the village.

In doing so, she violated not only social conventions, but English law.

Exactly who had a right to use arms, by law or social convention, varied to some degree between countries.

She didn't try to comply to social convention, so I think that makes her a very modern woman.

But I thought by social convention, if there's any of that left, one didn't smoke it in public places.

Throughout his short life, he was constantly in conflict with social conventions.

Yet behind this comfortable social convention, the problems of the world continue to bubble.

In keeping with social conventions of the time, the room was exclusive to men.

What I'd suggest to conservatives is that as a matter of law and social convention, this issue has moved on.

To be heard, women must rewrite decades of social convention.

He raised ordinary social convention to the level of a beautiful anxiety.

It tests knowledge of the Dutch language, political system and social conventions.

It is very difficult because of the procedures, the attitudes, and social conventions.

For a woman, training as a painter would have gone against contemporary social conventions.

But for refugee children these social conventions seldom came into play.

But social conventions won't allow the couple to adopt Marco.

Like good manners, we want the usefulness of a social convention.

There are certain social conventions that govern our use of e-mail.

She praised the young people who were beginning to rebel against social conventions.

According to the social conventions within the middle class, his fear was not ungrounded.