Sentence examples for could not conform from inspiring English sources

Some, who could not conform, either went underground or committed suicide.

They had such serious disagreements that Calipari said Sallie should leave if he could not conform.

That system created a new problem, though, because with unexploded fuel and air passing through the exhaust, the bike could not conform to emissions standards.

When the culprit is revealed at last, he sidles inadvertently into view, and the figure that he cuts, to Emad's consternation, could not conform less to the image of a lecherous fiend.

"Key to this case is that the psychiatrist hired by Connecticut found that my client could not conform his actions to the law," Mr. Brown told reporters after the verdict.

Having fallen behind, the ships of the II Battle Squadron could not conform to the new course following the turn, and fell to the disengaged side of the German line.

But you can also look at him as someone whose needs couldn't conform to a needless commitment to aloneness.

But they couldn't conform: the kinds of institutions that would reward hard work and promote advancement were closed to them.

Did her height mean she couldn't conform as much as she wanted to, or as much as society needed her to?

You had to be a cheerleader or a football player or a National Merit Scholar, and I couldn't conform to any of that.

Marsh tells more than some music lovers will want to know about contractual treachery, lawsuits and skewed production values, leading to sentences like this: "The Beatles' second American album (second on Capitol, at least) couldn't conform to the Beatles' second British album, because the first American album pretty much was the second British album".