Whether he has the inclination to employ it depends on how closely he conforms to the famous epigram of Pascal, who once observed, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead".
We need to stop judging the worth of a woman solely on how she conforms to a Photoshopped bikini model stereotype.
"My intent is not to 'diagnose' the characters as though they were real people, but rather to show how they conform to certain ideal types," he writes.
Conformation is a sport in which dogs are judged based on how they conform to their breed standard, more popularly known as dog showing.
Saltzman sent them around the ring, individually and as a group, and bent down to analyze and prod them, to determine how they conform to the breed standard.
Australia's oldest bank has agreed to judge lending proposals according to how they conform to the UN's climate change target of restricting global temperatures, but will not rule out investment in individual sectors.
Hence the tendency to see poems (and prose) about more recent conflicts as being good or less good depending on how they conform to the witnessings of a century ago.
Williams had originally planned to attend Hawaii, but that fell through because of eligibility issues that stemmed from his high school grades in Australia and how they conformed to N.C.A.A. standards.
What's shocking about these sex differences is how they conform to traditional gender roles, albeit in a magnified, violent way - the fathers dominant and sexually possessive, while the "altruistic" women have somehow taken the idea of nurturing to a perverse extreme.
She points out how cheese conforms to the Craved acronym: widely enjoyed, easy to conceal and kept in fridges rather than shelves that are subject to more extensive surveillance.
