conformity - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • enforce: Instead of trying to guide moral behavior the Church now looks to the state to enforce moral conformity.
  • ensure: To ensure conformity across The Service a template for the final accounts is available on the shared drive.
  • demonstrate: Standards are not the only means of demonstrating conformity - codes of practice, empirical design or other suitable methods are acceptable equivalents.
  • demand: This Asperger adventure explores the human condition and the need to integrate into a society that demands conformity.
  • require: Suppressing our individual thoughts and ideas when at our jobs, if the jobs happen to require conformity.

Preposition: with

  • principle: Great care has been taken to ensure that it is in explicit conformity with the principles of the United Nations charter.
  • requirement: To ensure quality of written and spoken word in a designated language and to ensure conformity with format holder requirements.
  • law: National law must always be interpreted in conformity with European law which takes precedence.
  • provision: Brokers or intermediaries may not accept orders to tender shares which have not been made in conformity with the provisions set forth above.
  • obligation: We had to force conformity with international obligations that for years had been breached with the world turning a blind eye.
  • will: In 133 BC, in conformity with the will of Attalus III of Pergamum, the Anatolia lands were attached to Rome.

Adjective modifier

  • rigid: Labor are effectively imposing a blueprint of rigid conformity on parish councils.
  • strict: These arrangements will be perfectly free; they will be in strict conformity with the wishes of the passions.
  • ideological: Were MPs and cabinet members really comfortable with the pager system enforcing a uniformed linguistic and ideological conformity from them?
  • dull: Their bohemian way of living would challenge the dull conformity of everyday life under capitalism.
  • general: The Ealing plan is in general conformity with the London Plan.
  • absolute: In fact, Britain was the first major European country to break with the medieval European tradition of absolute religious conformity.

Modifies a noun

  • assessment: Its primary function is to develop a world wide program of conformity assessment which will promote the elimination of non tariff barriers to trade.
  • procedure: Once this has been determined they will need to follow the appropriate conformity assessment procedure.

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