'constitute deviation' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The employee's behavior constituted a deviation from company policy."
However, these phenomena only constitute deviations (although potentially strong) from the global tendency that our simple description of these steps can capture.
Since missing data can constitute deviations from the intention-to-treat principle, clinical trial analyses require the use of imputation (19).
What constitutes deviation from the correct alignment and abnormal loading, that could induce degenerative changes on the lower spine, is probably a personalized characteristic.
Health compromising behaviours such as substance use can be regarded as problem behaviour [ 4, 5] because they constitute a deviation from conventional behaviour.
What has become the same old story was quick to offer another repetition when Hewitt dropped his service to go 2-0 down in the opening set, though what happened next constituted a deviation from the plot line which nobody expected.
These results show that the stringent substrate specificity of the SARS-CoV Mpro with respect to the P1 and P2 positions can be overruled by the highly electrophilic character of the aldehyde warhead, thereby constituting a deviation from the dogma that peptidic inhibitors need to correspond to the observed cleavage specificity of the target protease.
The experience of having your baby admitted to a NICU constitutes a deviation from the more common, dominant narratives on birth and new motherhood.
In investigating the cause of the detection, it was found that the beans obtained from the grower had been stored in a poorly ventilated room, causing increased mycotoxin formation and constituting a deviation from the applicable HACCP plan.
The use of ultrafiltration did not constitute a protocol deviation, as some have contended [ 6, 10], and complete data on these treatments were collected.
At issue is whether the move, which would probably involve building a new gallery on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, would constitute the "least drastic deviation" from the 1922 trust indenture of Albert C. Barnes.
The determination of whether a deviation constitutes a violation of the standard is up to the discretion of the entity responsible for enforcement of the standards.
