conforming

How To Use conforming In A Sentence

• We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble, forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Areopagitica
• Supposedly we are a conforming nation, but what we have "conformed" to is a life of leisure and excess. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Scrap: action on a nonconforming product to preclude its originally intended use. EXAMPLE Recycling, destruction.
• But this is not the first time that women have been forced into conforming to the fashion fancies of the day.
• The whole surrounded by white stars arranged in the form of an annulet with one point of each star outward on the imaginary radiating center lines, the number of stars conforming to the number of stars in the union of the Flag of the United States as established by the act of Congress approved April 4, 1818, 3 Stat. 415. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9646
• The esplanade was a broad walk extending the entire width of the building, and conforming to it. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West
• Certain financial reward today is, for some individuals, better than the uncertain reward of behaving properly and conforming to social norms.
• It has also received accolades for conforming to the W3C's Web standards, unlike its Windows equivalent.
• This was a ‘regular ode’ in that it closely followed Pindar's scheme of all strophes and antistrophes conforming to one stanzaic pattern, and all epodes following another.
• The formation of a malignant negative identity is generally disguised by the socially conforming "false self. Trauma and Recovery