This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which someone is not following a pattern of behavior. For example, "The teacher was surprised when some of her students deviated from this practice of completing their homework on time."
Judge Vinson acknowledged that he was deviating from this practice, but he argued that this is an atypical case in which the individual mandate is so "inextricably bound" to the remaining provisions that it cannot be severed.
For several good reasons, summarized in a 2000 Justice Department letter, such details about internal decision-making by prosecutors and prosecutorial "declinations" are rarely revealed, and Barr is unlikely to deviate from that practice.
Therefore, when nursing staff members have to deal with residents who deviate from this assumed hygienic practice, dealing with the behaviour itself is difficult, as discussed by Lawler [ 14].
I can't say why the soldiers here deviated from the practice of photographing all the detainees as a group with the weapons found at the hut.
The Dalai Lama has said he may choose his own successor, deviating from the practice in which senior lamas identify each Dalai Lama's reincarnation after his death.
The Dalai Lama has suggested that he might choose his successor before he dies, deviating from the practice of senior lamas' identifying each Dalai Lama's reincarnation after his death.
Under the embattled administrator, the agency deviated from the practice of previous EPA chiefs by generally not telling reporters for national outlets where Pruitt would be traveling and publicly speaking until he went there, often only clueing in a couple of local publications when trying to get friendly coverage.
(An alternative view would be that if there was a widespread voluntary practice of accepting certain restrictions on conduct to advance a social justice goal, an individual who deviates from the practice without good reason would be unfairly failing to contribute her bit to this justice-promoting practice and hence behaving wrongly).
According to MacDonald, Poledouris deviated from the practice of scoring love scenes with tunes reminiscent of Romantic period pieces; instead, Poledouris made Conan and Valeria's melancholic love theme unique through his use of "minor-key harmony".
Organ procurement from cardiac or imminent death donors, however, deviates from the practice adopted for brain-death donors.
In the proposed study, the reason not to match the intensity of treatment as usual is that this would deviate from current practice, therefore undermining the goal of the proposed study.
