Sentence examples for As conformity from inspiring English sources

Similar considerations apply to other aspects of social behaviour, such as conformity, persuasibility, and dependency.

The industry argues that the exemptions – known as conformity factors – were needed to prevent earnings shortfalls, and to reflect testing uncertainties.

Although the processes that formed each of these mountain belts are broadly similar, in almost all such crustal events at different times and places, there is uniqueness as well as conformity to a general pattern.

Many schools in neighborhoods like the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where more liberal views have long prevailed, and where both parents and teachers value dissent as much as conformity, have for many years now avoided the routine recitation of the pledge.

I look across the table at her, with her big furry hat and her nails painted gold to match her leggings and her languorous smile aimed at something unexplained in the mid-distance and it strikes me, not for the first time, that VV Brown would never do anything as boring as conformity.

Jimmy Breslin, who attached himself to O'Neill throughout the Watergate hearings after O'Neill had become known as "the architect of impeachment," wrote poetically in his well-received book, "How the Good Guys Finally Won," "For if you see Tom O'Neill as he is, not as conformity forces us to see, then there is coming into the room a lovely spring rain of a man".

Having isolated the "logic" of partial belief as conformity to the probability calculus, Ramsey goes on to discuss what makes a degree of belief in a proposition reasonable.

for all non-modal propositions P. As well as conformity with our pre-theoretic modal judgements and inclusion of an encyclopedia of actual non-modal truths, Rosen 1990 mentions another source of information to apply in specifying the modal fiction.