Sentences with phrase «stand against the norm»

Power to RIM for not following the masses and actually taking a stand against the norm.

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What David learned early from the example of his parents (and the FBI visitation in worship) was that there may well be consequences for taking a stand that goes against societal norms.

Standing shamelessly for putting sex in the creature feature, del Toro's movie feels like a protest against the norm.

Norm Assiff stood for me and fought for my rights against the insurance companies.

Norm Pattis and The Pattis & Smith Law firm criminal attorneys stand up to the often bullying tactics federal prosecutors use in civil rights cases against police.

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.»)

Perhaps we Canadians, especially, think that our standard speech is the «norm» against which other ways of saying things stand out.