Corporate manufacturing shapes distribution just as it enforces uniformity of product.
In 1564, however, Elizabeth demanded that Matthew Parker, the archbishop of Canterbury, enforce uniformity in the liturgy.
Though the 16 voices of the splendid choir were beautifully blended, there was no sense of enforced uniformity in the robust and flexible singing.
Either as a bogeyman, used to terrify us about the horrors of social democracy, a destroyer of personality and creativity and a feminist paradise of boredom and enforced uniformity.
Moore likes to cite the centuries-old Baptist tradition of "soul freedom"—the right to resist what Roger Williams, a Baptist and the founder of Rhode Island, called "enforced uniformity of religion".
The flip side of our worship of individual expression is the enforced uniformity and blandness of the spaces we share: gray, blockish office buildings in the International Style, muzak in elevators, Starbucks and McDonald's.
In fact, as those who follow this issue know, we've experimented with enforced uniformity: from 1987 until 2005, Congress took much of sentencing out of judges' hands by setting mandatory federal guidelines, which made sentencing formulaic.
Early royal standards established to enforce uniformity took the name Winchester, after the ancient capital of Britain, where the 10th-century Saxon king Edgar the Peaceable kept a royal bushel measure and quite possibly others.
Some firms are able to design an effective mechanism that enforces uniformity in goals of the members of the firm.
The great trade fairs, such as those in Champagne during the 12th and 13th centuries, enforced rigid uniformity on merchants of all nationalities within the fairgrounds and had some effect on standardizing differences among regions, but the variations remained.
