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The phrase "conformity over" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to prioritize or favor following standards or norms over personal preferences or individuality. Here are a few examples: - In this workplace, conformity over creativity seems to be the norm. - The school board values conformity over innovation. - The pressure to conform in society seems to be increasing over time. - When it comes to fashion choices, she always chooses conformity over standing out. - In the military, conformity over individuality is essential for maintaining discipline.
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The society they live in privileges men over women, family over individuality, conformity over free will.
In such an environment, you'd want to shun outsiders, who might bring strange diseases, and enforce a certain conformity over eating rituals and social behavior.
But for years they have been neglected, and in many cases forcibly harmed, by policies that favored sprawl over density and conformity over difference.
They have spent much of their formative years in a society that prizes conformity over individuality; where people dare not question authority; where the idea of following your dreams is, for most, not even a dream.
Thus, the equilibrium lacks one of the main characteristics emphasized by Lewis: a preference for general conformity over slight-less-than-general conformity.
They favor conformity over creativity.
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On Monday, stubbornness won over conformity.
Conformity is taking over our world.
Because during the Fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs — a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price, as exemplified politically in the Eisenhower administration and the Joe McCarthy witch-hunts.
A study of subjects who watched either a horror film or a romantic film found that the people who watched the scary movie were subsequently much more persuaded by advertising that used a conformity pitch ("over a million sold") than a uniqueness appeal ("stand out from the crowd").
Conformity is valued over individualism.
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