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The phrase "conform by" is correct and usable in written English.
It means "comply with" and can be used to indicate that someone is following a certain course of action or set of rules. For example, "All students must conform by the school's dress code."
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But the sensibility of football is self-effacing, with players taught to conform by deferring to the group.
"From a distance, the wearer appears to conform by wearing a chic grey suit," he says, "but you can see there is some interesting detail that draws the eye to the cloth".
On the other hand, inadequate maintenance of Renaissance gardens designed as geometric architectural abstractions, to which plant forms were made to conform by clipping and trimming allowed many of the larger plants to resume their natural forms.
The consequence is a culture of hyper-competitiveness that leaves many girls feeling isolated and overwhelmed by the contradictory demand to conform by rebelling – and to rebel by putting on a sexual performance they are too often unable to manage or enjoy.
In the 1960s, you could express your refusal to conform by wearing your hair long (but so did everyone else), demonstrating in the street (ditto), wearing flowers round your neck (ditto), smoking marijuana (ditto), attending rock festivals and dancing in the mud with nothing on (ditto) or taping a Che Guevera poster to your wall (ditto).
He chastises those who don't conform by saying they "won't taste the happiness and rewards of hard work". The internet had a collective meltdown over Ma's comments.
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The coupled system is conformed by a Compound Parabolic Solar Collector (CPC) and a Fixed Bed Reactor FBRR).
Arcured is a network of culture and arts conformed by members of academic institutions affiliated to Red Clara throughout Latinamerica.
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