Sentences with phrase «against the norm by»

It'd be great if we did go against the norm by bringing in a big player.

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This was a particularly common practice at the time which violated Christian norms against idolatry, and so would certainly have been worthy but treatment by Paul.

His jeremiads against the collapse of moral absolutes resonates with many black Americans who have experienced firsthand the despair and destruction wrought by the collapse of shared public norms.

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

It's unfortunate that societal norms encourage the boys» peers to tease them if they are beaten fairly by a girl, but that's certainly not a reason to forbid girls to wrestle against boys.

l. Christ against culture is the approach that requires Christians to abandon wholly the customs and institutions of the «heathen» society and to withdraw, either physically or by rejecting society «s norms.

According to those norms, one may defend oneself against an unjust aggressor, but, if at all possible, this must be done by nonlethal means.

One is giving in to one's subjective assessment that abiding by the norm against contraception is too difficult.

Although I dispute his apparent view that recognized» as opposed to fanciful» norms of international law or codes of professional conduct would restrict actual practice under the regimen ridiculously called «enhanced interrogation,» as described in the Office of Legal Counsel memoranda profligately disclosed by the current administration, I have nothing against «conscientious reflection» on the issue and lively discussion of it.

But here was Joan, who was just a poor country girl, illiterate, defying the social norm by dressing up as a man and affirming that she had received orders from «her voices» to fight against the English.

While most people may be disgusted by the thought of how a sausage is created, Seth Rogen takes a chance as someone who goes against the norm.

A: How innovative people were, and how brave they were when the lifespaces they created pushed against the norms and expectations that everyone else lives by.

Going against the cultural norm isn't easy so everyone that does EC is probably best served by not behaving like a berserker defending the cause.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

But your doctor can determine whether your child is growing at a normal pace by using a growth chart that measures height and weight against national norms.

Unfortunately, another growing norm in international relations — shaped by experiences in Darfur, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Rwanda, where NGOs have been expelled or kept firmly in check — encourages Syria to hold out against international civil society input, which Damascus regards as a western fifth column at worst, an unruly rabble at best.

A unofficial running tally on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Web site had Democrat Al Franken leading incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes on Sunday - in a race in which nearly 2.5 million votes were cast - but Ritchie cautioned against pronouncing either candidate ahead until all votes are counted.

The Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, viewed the action taken by Trump as an «aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made - up up pretext».

A film in 2015 that stick to the standard action formula of a flawed lead character full of angst helping some woman fight back against her tormentors would likely be fun and a big hit, but by going against the norm and embracing every bit of chaos in this mad world, Miller creates a new king of the road that's going to be hard for any upcoming blockbuster in 2015 and beyond to top.

They may participate in sexist practices and maintain unjust gender relations by perpetrating violence against women, controlling women's reproductive and familial decision making, limiting women's access to community resources and political power, or espousing patriarchal beliefs and norms that allow other men to engage in such actions.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)

(The Wall Street Journal: Apr 18, 2010) Gregory Zuckerman contends that bubbles are the «new norm» and buy and hold is now a risky strategy, and this new way of thinking can be used to an investor's advantage by considering inverse ETFs as a potential hedge against market downturns.

The most recent title in the Call of Duty: Black Ops sub-franchise continues the formula of hunting and killing evil terrorists and enemies of the U.S., but it deviates from this norm in a disturbing way by involving violence against children.

At one point, Hirsch and the punk, played by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, reenact an interview Jean Genet once did about rebelling against filmmakers, one that culminates with Hirsch acidly telling the film crew, «Of course I'm afraid of entering the norm!»

His performances» raw intensity often included the graphic acting out of taboo ideas and behaviors, acting out against the imposition of cultural norms by television programming, Disney.

Three gallery shows that exemplify the trend — and a fourth farther uptown — are of work by artists who share elements of the same profile: the bad - boy avant - gardist with machismo to spare, rebelling against aesthetic conventions, social norms or both.

They worry and nag, pitting our desire for order — whether in the guise of science, religion or clear - cut sexuality — against the threat of creeping chaos posed by disease, madness, or whatever flaunts the norm.

• Lack of formal model verification & validation, which is the norm for engineering and regulatory science • Circularity in arguments validating climate models against observations, owing to tuning & prescribed boundary conditions • Concerns about fundamental lack of predictability in a complex nonlinear system characterized by spatio - temporal chaos with changing boundary conditions • Concerns about the epistemology of models of open, complex systems

Dr. Mann has transgressed scientific norms and offended First Amendment principles by bringing a defamation claim against Appellants for their pointed criticism of his scientific methodology.

It is not necessarily the case, however, that the recognition of a [customary international law] norm against torture as the basis for some type of private law remedy in this instance would bring the entire system of international law crashing down,» said the ruling by Justice Mary Newbury, with justices Peter Willcock and Gail Dickson agreeing.

The class action is based on allegations by the former miners that «international law norms against forced labour, slavery and torture were violated during the construction of the mine,» according to the ruling.

substantive principles and norms, which — by their nature, position, and function — are of primary importance for the survival of the international system, while their application, possessing an overruling effect against all contrary legal acts, is so fundamental that it can not be simply entrusted to the goodwill of the interested States.

The Advisory Panel recommends that governments and the corporate sector demonstrate national leadership by building a culture that challenges gender inequality and social norms that support violence against women and their children.

emphasises the accountability of governments for socio - economic outcomes among different sectors of civil society by treating these outcomes as a matter of legal obligation, to be assessed against the norms established through the human rights system;

4 DOS APP 02 Matter of DOS v. Hecht - business practices; commissions; broker's past acts can not be used against him as evidence of repeated misconduct on a charge of illegal business practices where such conduct is being now first reviewed for untrustworthiness; charging fees in excess of professional norms, absent a showing of unique services offered above and beyond those services normally rendered by a real estate broker, demonstrates untrustworthiness; broker's current commission rates are far in excess of rates established by custom and usage; ALJ's decision modified, license suspended until one month after broker refunds amount in excess of rates established by custom and usage