Sentence examples for behind norm from inspiring English sources

He was drafted by the Browns, but found himself behind Otto Graham in Cleveland, which sent him to the Rams, where he was behind Norm Van Brocklin and Bob Waterfield.

Three days a week, he walks along Main Street behind Big Norm's Dogs, a pushcart serving hot dogs and sausages.

He demonstrates no appreciation for the reasons behind the norm that requires attribution.

For all of the conservative rhetoric in the US about the importance of motherhood, parenting and family values, we sure are comfortable with trailing behind global norms on nearly every standard or policy that would support mothers, parents and families.

Language, she says, can sometimes drag its feet behind social norms.

While laws can often lag decades or more behind social norms, legislation related to breastfeeding has passed more swiftly by comparison.

Private estates crammed with roads and garages rather than gardens and playgrounds, well behind the European norm for heating and insulation, have been no improvement.

But Randall argues that this is hardly the norm – behind the scenes, things in theatre are as tough for people from minority-ethnic backgrounds as they ever were.

Browder has crunched Lukoil's numbers and come up with figures that show the company's oil output has grown far more slowly than that of its major Russian competitors, that its production per well also lags behind the industry norm and that its net income, on a per-barrel basis, is nearly 50percentt less than that of Yukos.

So clearly, Japan is hugely lagging behind the global norm.

(The analysis would suggest we're still stolidly Puritan and conservative, lagging behind the civilizational norm in this regard).