conformable

How To Use conformable In A Sentence

• The principal form that error takes, for Descartes, is in the judgment that the ideas that are in me ‘are similar or conformable to the things which are outside me’.
• The otherness of early modern religious agents and culture is translated into (for us) more acceptable modern forms conformable to our own cultural assumptions.
• For, granting the existence of a higher standard, the first question that we must ask about a cultural tradition is, ‘Is it conformable to our standard?’
• He was directed to allow him to remain within the limits of their grant only while he was conformable to the government.
• A mind arising from a genetic human nature might not prove conformable.
• His point can be illustrated by noting that transferable housing vouchers could be market conformable while rent control clearly would not.
• One of the criteria for the selection of undertakers and tenants was that they be conformable in religion.
• Deposited sediments are conformable on top of those of the South Bashkirian Basin.
• A conformable policy measure is one that is consistent with those principles, while a non-conformable policy measure is one that clashes with them.
• The Spanish kings, in conformity to the martial spirit of the times when cards were introduced, were all mounted on horseback, as befitted generals and commanders-in-chief; but their next in command (among the cards) was el caballo, the knight-errant on horseback -- for the old Spanish cards had no queens; and the third in order was the soto, or attendant, that is, the esquire, or armour-bearer of the knight -- all which was exactly conformable to those ideas of chivalry which ruled the age. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2