The test thus limits the award to misconduct that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour. (employmentlaw101.ca)
They are meant to punish the defendant who has acted in a malicious, oppressive and high - handed manner in a way that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour. (williamshrlaw.com)
For hope is an openness to the breaking in of what is completely unpredictable and unanticipated from the point of view of what is considered to be possible by ordinary standards of expectation. (religion-online.org)