Sentences with phrase «against the norm when»

Alis even goes against the norm when, in an interesting turn on an old scenario, our heroine ends up saving the life of the party's musclebound fighter in the first real dungeon of the game; the mission was in stark contrast to Dragon Quest's mid-game damsel rescue operation and made the game feel like something different than was offered at the time.

Not exact matches

When is the human race going to stop being predujice against anyone that does something out of the norm of your own everyday life.

The most unsettling part of this book is Le Rider's gentle hint throughout that when the Viennese modernists hurled themselves against the norms and values of their society, they were chafing against mere gossamer chains and bridles of cotton.

This is irony as a defense against ethical norms, and against the possibilities of being hurt that come when we take life seriously.

I suppose when going against the status quo at the same time the challenge exist for one to do so in truth and love, for the right reasons lest one should slip into conduct that is no better than the unhealthy authorised norms one is up against?

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.

Certain matters of ecclesiastical discipline may legitimately vary from place to place; but when one asserts the autonomy of an individual bishop to such an extent that his authority can be exercised against the norms of the universal Church, ultimately one fractures the unity of the Church.

So you're definitely onto something that 3.5 percent against an expected norm of 0.2 % is more meaningful that 3.8 % when 2.9 % is expected.

Van Gaal took a while to find the right formula this season and although when he found it, against the likes of Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool, it was incredible to watch, those sort of performances need to become the norm rather than exceptions.

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.

When everyone else is hiring tutors at the first sign of an A-minus and pushing their kids to pursue two or three extracurricular activities chosen with an eye toward bolstering their college application, to do otherwise is to go against the cultural norm.

It's hard when what you're doing is SO against society's norms.

When the committee demanded to know why she could entertain any letter from the AGF as against the Civil Service practices and norms, Oyo - Ita said, «The AGF is the number legal authority of this country.

For example, it would be unfair to discriminate against the child of a working mother who was unable to help clean the church hall because of her employment hours, he said, or to expect parents to have had their children baptised in the first six months when this was not the cultural norm among Eastern Europeans of a given denomination.

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.

When a scientific idea becomes the accepted norm, journalistic fairness gives perhaps unwarranted exposure to the old resisters, fighting a rearguard action against it.

The most promising explanations for that advantage are the defendant's superior resources, the social standing of physicians, social norms against «profiting» from an injury, and the jury's willingness to give physicians the «benefit of the doubt» when the evidence of negligence is conflicting.»)