Sentence examples for demanding conformity from inspiring English sources

In recent years, China has made a habit of demanding conformity and expecting superiority from its people.

At its heart is a tale of those who don't fit neatly anywhere: neither male nor female, American nor Greek, narrator Cal is pitched about by a world demanding conformity to narrow identities.

He is a coach, a Special One by his own estimation, who demands conformity.

Individuals are far less likely to run afoul of a system that no longer demands conformity in political views or personal lifestyles.

Like the rest of Germany, Berlin demands conformity to certain rules (think twice about crossing against the light), but leaves moral judgments up to the individual (no problem with nude bathing in public parks or gambling in storefront casinos).

"America is not a country which needs to demand conformity of all its people, for its strength lies in all our diversities converging in one common belief, that of the importance of freedom as the essence of our country".

It is a convincing, part-Freudian picture Wilde paints of Pietersen – the middle-class boy from Pietermaritzburg, born to an English mother and a God-fearing, buttoned-up Dutch-born Afrikaner who demanded conformity; schooled as a day boy at Maritzburg College, which was renowned for producing good, white sportsmen.

And perhaps it is because love stories point to the fundamental divide within us – between the mystic echoes of the individual soul, which craves freedom, and the dictates of community, which demand conformity to codes and practices we frequently find objectionable and sometimes profoundly wrong.

Then don't bother applying to Siebel Systems, where the 47-year-old chief executive demands conformity that would have earned a salute from General Patton.

It demands conformity with the laws and rules that reinforce its power.

No one can be a freethinker who demands conformity to a bible, creed, or messiah.