The definition of torture should be changed to reflect civilized norms.

None looked like the man with the dark glasses, but, in some sense they all looked like one another: well exercised beyond civilized norms, primitively muscular, insolently self-confident.

And afterwards, when they came qome and returned to civilized norms, they had to live with ories of savagery that conscience could not condone.

"Now it's inside the normal, civilized norms of society."

The reek of unwashed bodies was another step away from what had been the civilized norm.

And when Berliners talk incessantly about their dreams of a Weltstadt, or world city, then the German thirst for a civilized, cosmopolitan norm is palpable.

AND what was the German response to this public, nationwide violation of every civilized norm?

You were right about Captain Dirk acting strangely in terms of your usual civilized norms.

It means standing by while millions are displaced and tens of thousands freeze and are shot - thus abandoning civilized norms and self- respect.

And it is he who now violates civilized norms by segregating foreign nationals in Kuwait.