This had to make them feel different when they started school, which is a time when conformity matters more than almost anything else.
Lang, Armstrong, and Liu address the role of the consumer in: "Creativity and sustainable apparel retail models: Does consumers' tendency for creative choice counter-conformity matter in sustainability?" As part of their research, the authors present several potential product-service retail models as a means for promoting sustainable apparel practices among consumers.
The fact that Obama had to spend several minutes of the last Democratic debate addressing Tim Russert's question on whether he would denounce or reject Farrakhan - who was complementary of Obama, but stopped just short of an endorsement - is testimony to our desires stay within the box of conformity, no matter how unhealthy it may be for the nation.
The conformity that matters most, however, will be in his run production, and Justice had his first hit with the Yankees today and drove in two runs as they completed a turbulent 13-game trip by beating Tampa Bay, 5-2.
This could have important implications in any domain where voluntary compliance matters — including relations between spouses, employers and employees, market transactions, and conformity to legal standards.
Conformity in ecclesiastical matters was imposed in areas where nonconformity had survived under Elizabeth.
Conformity should be a matter of appropriate management measures and quality assurance, not merely of measuring and calculation.
What matters to conformity is that an individual believes that her threshold has been reached or surpassed.
The truth of such axioms, if it really does obtain, is a matter of their conformity to the way the phenomenal world is, and mere fact that they are psychologically indubitable to the human mind does not guarantee that: given the relativity of knowledge, even indubitable judgements are fallible.
The dramatic centerpiece is a fifteen-minute debate between Marcus and the college dean (played with eerily precise judgment by Tracy Letts) that turns on matters of social conformity, sexual morality, and religious belief.
Tells Ken Clarke: "I am completely in conformity with Government policy on the matter, since that policy has yet to be decided". Sir Vince Cable, the Lib Dem leader, says the government has now realised the limits of "sycophancy" towards the US.
