Alternatively, it might stretch jobless benefits for those who are poor - a fundamental departure for a program that has never had a means test.

With the zero-tolerance policy, the American bishops proposed sweeping, fundamental departures from established church law for a single country and an urgent situation.

In that sense, the new media present a fundamental departure from the practices, as well as the spirit, of public service broadcasting.

This represents a fundamental departure from the traditional understanding of what democracy is, or was.

Net, an initiative the company said represented a fundamental departure from its previous desktop computing strategy.

The 1990 model year 4Runner represented a fundamental departure from the first-generation model.

This seemed like a fundamental departure from our constitutional system of checks and balances.

Scale, texture, small but fundamental departures from flatness - all prove to be shy of the camera.

Dr. Eldredge said this represented a fundamental departure from traditional exhibitions at the museum.

This attitude results in fundamental departures from established norms.