We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience. From LearnThat.org. [Claude Gernade Bowers,Source: Introduction, The U.S. and the Spanish Civil War, 1956]
Big Government forcing private institutions to conform is totally the way to go!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center] Reference
Sarcastro: Big Government forcing private institutions to conform is totally the way to go!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center] Reference
But the need to conform is greater among the young. From Wordnik.com. [A thoughtful post (as usual) ...] Reference
Thus to me to try to overly conform is plain wrong, because you are negating part of your individuality. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation, assimilation or dissolution?] Reference
Such agreements shall be approved by said board only when the terms conform to the provisions of this act. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
One of the best ways to get children of this age to conform is to work with them on tasks which utilize their energy, skill and creativity. From Wordnik.com. [My Sinchew -] Reference
How can anyone expect us to "conform" to the UUA's new model of youth programming?. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Sinkford: Continental YRUU will be replaced.] Reference
You’re the only one who seems to demand that the word conform to your narrowly defined meaning in order to pick a nit with TP. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Flashback: Conservatives Guaranteed ‘ObamaCare Is Dead,’ ‘Pelosi Doesn’t Have The Votes’] Reference
The Home Office has run for 100's of years and now it is split because the EU wants it this way so that we 'conform' to their model. From Wordnik.com. [Poll Shows Labour Doing Worse Under Brown] Reference
Under this first step, are we to simply "conform". From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
As long as you 'conform' to the group, you're tolerated. From Wordnik.com. [Sharp as a Marble] Reference
Jews are expected to "conform" to the plan no matter how retrograde. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
I know many of my readers will argue that women shouldn't have to "conform" to men. From Wordnik.com. [Resources | BNET] Reference
Did he perhaps, like so many of his discreet and cautious young men, "conform" without. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
But he said the bills on the table no longer "conform" with what USCAP envisioned for a climate change bill. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Gore on National Review Online] Reference
I think society puts a lot of pressure on them to "conform", but of course, it's not going to work out in the end. From Wordnik.com. [Random Meanderings] Reference
He says he has been in London (as we know from Leslie), where his friends wished him to 'conform' to the Hanoverian interest. From Wordnik.com. [Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles] Reference
Leadership sold off Hughes and EDS, then forced Saturn to "conform" to GM practices gutting the upstart division of its value. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
True, but the desire to conform has not changed as dramatically. From Wordnik.com. [Tall Girls] Reference
I, too, was expected to conform to social norms, and I did just that. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: The Ongoing Hunt for Osama bin Laden] Reference
These events conform to a pattern already well established elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Anger] Reference
Familiar creative forms will slowly evolve to conform to the new medium. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time To Turn The Last Page] Reference
"We're told to conform in order to make the white man comfortable," he says. From Wordnik.com. ['Improvement Is A Myth'] Reference
Juan would tell me, 'You're just trying to conform and go back into the closet.'. From Wordnik.com. [Bisexuality] Reference
We don't necessarily agree with it, but now we'll draft regulations that conform to it. From Wordnik.com. [Rewriting the Rules] Reference
Presbyterians were cerebral, self-contained and bent on making civic life conform to God's will. From Wordnik.com. [Dead End For The Mainline?] Reference
He backed off when Brown countered that U.S. legal and moral standards conform to Geneva in any case. From Wordnik.com. [A BATTLE OVER BLAME] Reference
The slavish fixation on insisting that every member conform to an idealized norm could be self-defeating. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Orphan] Reference
Its past behavior -- at the slits -- is made to conform to whether or not it "should" make the zebra pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Faster Than What?] Reference
After all, it doesn't conform to the Soviet straitjacket style of "socialist realism"; the bull is light blue. From Wordnik.com. [Art In Exile] Reference
For this we should be grateful that the world, that human history does not conform to our short-story principles. From Wordnik.com. [The War Keeps Going And Going] Reference
Turkey has started full-membership negotiations with the EU, which means we have to conform to the rules of a democratic system. From Wordnik.com. [Between East and West] Reference
There has been too much pressure on corporations to produce short - term results that conform to securities analysts 'expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Reforming Corporate America] Reference
It used to sadden me that my daughter was not part of the popular crowd, stayed home many weekends and didn't try to conform to fit in. From Wordnik.com. [Letters: Girls Are '32 Flavors And Then Some'] Reference
But these indicators of military might and economic well-being do not automatically enable us to cause others to conform to our bidding. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom Superpower?] Reference
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