Deviating from it has benefits, too.
By spending strategically and threatening to "primary" any office-holder who deviates from its agenda, it has managed to impose an extremist agenda that seems almost unchallengeable.
Hezbollah's participation in the civil war in Syria is highly divisive and unpopular in Lebanon, where many feel it has deviated from its original purpose of fighting Israel and that it has exposed the Shiite community to retaliation.
The nature, business, and management of college sports has been debated and criticized these past 12 months more so than any other period in recent history, and the NCAA is facing scrutiny on whether it has deviated too far from its stated mission: to ensure that college athletics is "an integral part of higher education with a focus on the development of our student-athletes".
In spite of the change in the political map, and consequently the features of the relationship between countries, and even the entire international formation, the movement has kept its fundamentals and its compass hasn't changed, and it has never deviated from the main principles of its founding.
In doing so, it has deviated from the national vote shares by only a couple of points.
It speedily began a bold programme of deficit-reduction, from which it has deviated only in mostly sensible ways as the global economy has struggled.
The only time it has deviated from this laggard schedule was when the life-imitates-art Husbands and Wives was released to capitalise on Allen's relationship difficulties - even though an earlier film, Shadows and Fog, was still unreleased.
Michalis Massourakis, chief economist at a major bank in Athens, Alpha Bank, said it was imperative that European Union governments impose strict requirements on Greece to ensure that it did not deviate from austerity measures it has promised to undertake.
Michalis Massourakis, chief economist at a major bank in Athens, Alpha Bank, said it was imperative that E.U. governments impose strict requirements on Greece to ensure that it did not deviate from austerity measures it has promised to undertake.
