Sentences with phrase «against the norm just»

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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.

It is the quality of his goals as well as the quantity though, and his strike against West Ham that just got the goal of the month award is becoming the norm for Giroud rather than a rarity.

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?

«One thing that surprised us, in light of the social norms against talking about politics in polite conversation, was just how much cross-cutting content is shared,» Bakshy said.

It just sounds SO foreign because it goes against the norm, and against everything we have ever heard about nutrition.

Gluck wasn't just an artist; railing against both artistic and gender norms at the turn of the 20th century, they were a rebel.

However, it seems to me that controversy is just what many of these artists courted when they made these works, as they struggled against the accepted norms and received wisdoms of an authoritarian system.

It's a place where neighbors, onlookers, police officers, social workers, and judges work together, bizarrely, to criminalize parents for doing something that the parents themselves do not view as inherently dangerous for their kids, just because it goes against a social norm.