Sentence examples for exception to a norm from inspiring English sources

Despite a handful of large-scale sectarian attacks, including an infamous massacre in Baghdad's Jihad district by Shia militias in June and subsequent Sunni assaults on Shia neighbourhoods, they remain the exception to a norm of more furtive kidnappings or car bombings.

It might be of some comfort to politicians, then, if the Jena case, like the disgraceful treatment of displaced African-American victims of Hurricane Katrina, could be rationalized as an isolated, swamp-inspired exception to a more temperate American norm.

General Xiang Yu was a rare exception to the norm, a warrior who conquered by being unpredictably rational.

Referring to another married priest he knew in South Carolina, Father Newman said, "there was an intuitive grasp among everybody that this was an exception to the norm, and there was no injustice being done to lifelong Catholics who became priests knowing celibacy was part of that".

There was, however, an exception to the norm.

Comedy in 21st-century Britain is no longer an exception to the norm; it is the norm.

The third category — an exception to the norm — are the loners who relied on "virtual connections" to sign up and get there.

(These women give birth in hospitals rather than at home, which already makes their experience an exception to the norm in their countries).

Medically-accurate information regarding sexual health is an exception to the norm in this country.

The year 1993 marked an exception to the norm, when the so-called "Nordic Amanda" included contribution from all the Nordic countries.

The exception to this norm is generally when a speaker challenges the assumptions of the audience and yet manages to win them over.