deviate

How To Use deviate In A Sentence

• The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
• Each school has to respect the system, but the system itself is always being tinkered with, each ranker is constantly making changes (as you note), and neither can deviate too far away from a system that at least makes some sense. Discourse.net: US News Is in Season
• She fought the temptation to urinate, as she'd done to the first, as a deviate had done to her long ago.
• Carriers and vendors will always strive to differentiate themselves by introducing equipment and services that deviate from existing standards.
• The wristbands are not freely distributed to our employees as it would deviate from the original intention to help our target beneficiaries in Indonesia who need curative eye treatment.
• Hurston's representation may deviate from standard scientific format, but apparently in contrast to Odum and Johnson, she strives more than they to retain the essential content.
• The boy's behavior deviates from the usual pattern.
• He never deviated from the radical right's agenda, but he gave it a warm, sympathetic face.
• But so strong are the temptations to deviate from this path that we must make it an unbreakable precept never to give our assent unless the evidence compels it.
• Her speech deviated little from the official party line.