Sentence examples for above conformity from inspiring English sources

Unlike its antecedents, this culture prized modernity above conformity to the ancient traditions; to be abreast of the floating world was to be up-to-date, sharing in the latest fashions and slang, delighting in the moment rather than in the eternal truths of Noh plays or medieval poetry.

However, it is perfectly possible to see some candidate norms as ideals, while the evaluations of individual assertions may take into account various relations between the assertion and the norm over and above conformity.

A willingness to forge such alliances used to be taken as evidence that one put the country's business above party conformity.

Although, like Amos, Isaiah appears most often to speak in absolutes, it is indeed possible to interpret these two passages less strictly (as some scholars do) and to say that he spoke in relative terms and that, in his scale of religious values, he merely ranked moral conduct above ritual conformity.

That sounds fine, except that the saccharine stories represent a rich commercial opportunity for their government-approved creator, Sali Rayner, and place social conformity above academic excellence.

Higher adsorption of thiophanate methyl in soils III and IV are in conformity with the above observations.

Hence, the experimental results were in conformity with the above theory that the slurry could possess much better stability when the yield stress was greater than the settling stress.

The results obtained are in full conformity with the above notion that MAD2B and RAN co-localize in interphase cells.