For though, as her sister demanded, she conformed outwardly to official Catholic observance, she inevitably became the focus and the obvious beneficiary of plots to overthrow the government and restore Protestantism.
Bachmann has proven a useful pawn for liberals as well, because she conforms to their simplistic nightmare vision of what Republicans are all about and fills them with righteous condescension while sullying the image of the enemy party.
Aquinas explains that a thought is said to be true because it conforms to reality, whereas a thing or person is said to be true because it conforms to a thought (a friend is true insofar as, and because, she conforms to our, or God's, conception of what a friend ought to be).
Beauty products like to include just enough science-sounding words and phrases to seem credible (pentapeptides, anyone?) without actually having to do anything as hard as conforming to the rigorous rules of actual science.
Somehow, the signs need to guide each of them through the building so efficiently that they never worry about getting lost, as well as conforming to a minefield of safety regulations and competing against a blizzard of advertising imagery.
Lydia could be described as a proto-feminist, as she refuses to conform to the protocols of courtship behaviour.
And politicians can't lecture about the model family since politicians have as much difficulty conforming to the ideal as anyone else.
Isherwood was, at heart, a fetishist; anyone's body would do as long as it conformed to the body (and age) in his mind.
The age bands were chosen as they conformed to the 3 bands reported in the ADHS report.
Compounding the furor, the company backdated loan applications to make them look as though they conformed to those instructions.
