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How to use conformity in a sentence

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In that sense the system is acting for the benefit of the individual when it brainwashes him into conformity.
This single line from the 1967 film The Graduate came to signify a generation's contempt for insincerity, conformity, and wastefulness.
Removing both penalties against nonconformity and rewards for conformity contributed greatly to the purity of religion.
This identity has its roots in fear rather than pride and its fruits are conformity, provincialism and a jivey new anti-intellectualism.
Television and the print media present an image of prosperity and foster an intellectual atmosphere of stifling conformity.
Certainly, the widespread predilection for the fancy and frivolous has its roots in decades of drab socialist conformity.
Eccentricity, strangeness and individuality I like, conformity I flirt with.
A true rebel without a cause, the Gemini-Sagittarius will object to anything that hints of conformity or orthodoxy.
Without tenure, job security would be a function of a professor's conformity to patriotic orthodoxy.
In Western societies not conformity but variety and relaxed living are now in fashion.
This is generally in conformity with the court decision, save that it puts no controls on when strip searches may be done in a police station.
The outlaw biker image is a break from the conformity that has taken over America since industrialization.
It will be negotiated in conformity with the rules and disciplines of the World Trade Organisation.
In one way or another, these external institutions are powerful in producing conformity.
Many women deal with issues of power and conformity, not to mention chemically taming their hair.
This relates closely to the subsequent discussion of the benefits and costs of political conformity.
If conformity is important to you, and your peer group does not drink, perhaps you will also not drink.
The emperor and empress did not attend the prince's funeral Friday in conformity with tradition.
Treatment of the sewerage is in conformity with the regulations and standards set by the Environmental Council Zambia.
When people start to speak from habit they enter into those well worn grooves of social conformity and confirmation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The herd instinct may be an explanation of conformity but it does not explain variation.
The liquidator promised that, in conformity with the law, the sisters should receive pensions.
The gifts she needed from the Holy Ghost were those of hiddenness, patience, humility, conformity to God's will.
His perfection is to be sought in creaturely subjection and free conformity to the Divine purpose.
It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it.
The eye is created in conformity to the laws of light, to receive the rays and allow their impingement on the optic nerves.
In 1642, to reenforce these ministers, came three more from New England, actively averse to conformity.
But under some damnable pressure toward conformity, I took a desk job in a bank.
In conformity with this conception the Libyan maidens earned their dowery by their surrender.
For in the old days also reardon had been rather vain of outward conformity.
In conformity with Oriental usage, the congregation was divided according to the sexes.
High-bred manners and ways of living are items of conformity to the norm of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption.
Questions of correctness and conformity to style belong not to him but to the copy editor and proofreader.
If you admit it, do you intend, now that you are a millionaire, and do you not think it in conformity with justice, to indemnify Burdovsky?
In him had been authentically born the mania for conformity.
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.
At last, in 1672, the authorities abandoned the ineffective requirement of conformity, and he was released and became pastor of his church.
Sidney castigates the Calender's rusticity on the grounds that it refuses conformity to conventionally authorized norms of poetic production.
The ethics of Shinto were all included in conformity to custom.
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