Sentence examples for breaking the norm from inspiring English sources

"If a Syrian academic gets sponsored through a British university, it is breaking the norm – which is that it is very, very difficult indeed [to get] visas," says Chris Doyle at the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu), a London-based advocacy group.

"It certainly is a new approach in the (consumer-electronics) space.... They're certainly breaking the norm".

But Trump is breaking the norm, perhaps sensing that anything he does will be attacked as politically motivated regardless.

Well, she took some serious heat for breaking the norm and not including everybody at her wedding.

"We are being told that we are breaking the norms of international law," Putin said.

"We are being told that we are breaking the norms of international law.

Mr Yudhoyono himself ordered a moratorium on sending domestic workers to the Saudi kingdom, and in a nationally televised press conference on June 23rd he tersely accused Riyadh of breaking the "norms and manners" of international relations.

Yet these two artists have broken the norm.

So, in a country with more than 300 brands selling to approximately 364 million smartphone users, mobile developers need to break the norm.

African Organizations need to break the norm, be change makers and not follow the old ways.

My vision was to break the norm of the everyday, to shatter the monotony of our way of life and portray a world where we could move without the stiff rules of etiquette.