My narrow focus was on sustaining a school culture focused on rules, compliance, conformity, and preserving the status quo.
He proclaimed: "Under the guise of speech codes, and safe spaces, and trigger warnings, these universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity and shut down the voices of great young Americans". Clearly, the message being conveyed here had less to do with preserving the robustness of debate on campuses than about protecting certain voices in that debate.
It was somewhere between the boundless twinkle of space and the sentimental corners of the soul that Bowie connected, orbiting just out of reach to preserve his weirdness from the crush of conformity but close enough to touch us with songs that fully embraced the fallibility of being human.
"Stone Free" expressed Hendrix's desire to preserve his personal freedom, demurring the concepts of conformity and long-term relationships.
If his vigorous and iconoclastic essays have any common theme, it is that of the need to preserve one's personal integrity in the face of social conformity, fanaticism, and hypocrisy.
Then follows in large type: – "They are determined to uphold the law and preserve the King's peace, and to govern the town in conformity with their powers.
Researchers working on the project sign an oath of office by which they swear they will faithfully and honestly fulfil their duties as an employee of Statistics Canada in conformity with the requirements of the Statistics act to preserve data confidentiality.
As regards the old thesis that consciousness is always the consciousness of something, he endeavors to preserve this by appealing to the already mentioned notion of mind-dependent conformity, which may be either actual or potential (Marty 1908a 407-431).
Mendes saw, though, that despite this backdrop, the story was centrally about the relationship between Frank and April Wheeler, two people pinned to their time but not unique to it, a couple looking to preserve, or at least identify, some kind of truth in a landscape of heart-breaking conformity.
Bokkos Fulani show strong adherence to cultural norms to preserve their way of life in the face of their minority status and ample opportunities for non-conformity (Berry et al. 1989, Atkinson et al. 1998, Cormack 2016).
What writers can do in this symbolic ice age is to preserve and present individual identities, individual existences that you can pick out from the flow and present as something that moves people, or shocks them". We now live in a state of such conformity that we are in danger of forgetting those existences?
