departure from the norm

Although a departure from the norm, it meant that for the first time in years former group members who had left South Yorkshire for new climes as far flung as Australia, Canada and East Sussex could properly catch up with their old pals on a regular basis.

“No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter.”

“No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter.”

The FBI, which is led by a Trump appointee, issued a rare statement to refute the claim, clarifying that they "followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force ... no one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter."

He hadn’t thought that far ahead, a departure from the norm for a man who took Washington State to places it hadn’t been in a lifetime.