The phrase "against usual" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express something that is contrary to what is typical or expected, but it lacks clarity and standard usage.
Example: "His behavior was against usual expectations for someone in his position."
Alternatives: "contrary to usual" or "unlike the norm".
Most often, the comparison of the intervention was against usual care, however, this can obviously have different meanings in various settings and usually the descriptions leave it somewhat unclear what the comparison really was.
Now he had just finished his freshman year in college but, against usual custom, he still came out to Sag.
The system has been tested by simulation against usual perturbations affecting the flotation process and exhibits good performance, provided that the model properly represents the system operation.
Judge Parker made several of those comments after Mr. Clement argued that the court would be mistaken to test Mr. Padilla's detention against usual civilian rules.
Randomized controlled trials have the highest level of evidence in assessing a biomarker's benefit against usual care and present the most stringent design for the validation of promising markers as well as for the discovery of new markers.
Although their ctDNA-binding affinities and cytotoxic activities against usual tumor cell lines were lower than those of corresponding amines, the N-oxides A1 and A4 showed hypoxia preference activities against A375 cells in vitro and might be used as interesting candidates of prodrug leads in hypoxic tumor cells.
They did not make it onto Broadway, but I treasure their titles: "Wronged From the Start," "More Sinned Against Than Usual" and "The Prune-Hater's Daughter".
But Trump constantly rails against politics as usual, against political correctness, against elites of all kinds (including, curiously, business elites), and he has made a habit of vilifying minorities.
"It's aggressive, it's against the system, it's against the usual way of doing a painting.
Those five faced off against the usual dissenters: Stevens and Justices David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.
Let us attempt to act against our usual reflexes.
