Sentence examples for striving to conform from inspiring English sources
So it seems that, if one is striving to conform to CP, one shouldn't 'say' something if one takes oneself not to know it—hence, that if one does say that p, one commits oneself to this condition's not being unfulfilled; i.e., to one's actually being in the knowing relation to p. According to some, this same idea can be expressed by saying that knowledge is "the norm of assertion".
There is one Gospel to which everyone should be striving to conform, not five gospels!
Jarman, contemplating his generation of gay men born in the 1940s, speaks of their striving to conform countered by a strong urge to laugh and one senses throughout this show the perennial tendency to send up both life and art.
We strive to conform to those notions in the name of personal development.
Social influence effects are partly normative, whereby observers strive to conform with their social group.
"It's time to accept and embrace the many wonderful variations of bodies, rather than strive to conform to the unrealistic ideals determined by the cosmetic, fashion and diet industries," they wrote.
Preadolescents and adolescents are exceptionally sensitive to deviations [ 59], are easily embarrassed [ 60], and strive to conform to their peers [ 59, 61], possibly explaining why peer victimization peaks in the preteen years [ 62].
In a sense this material forms a study in young, self-aware ambition, a portrait of an artist operating from a personal inner reality, in place since childhood, striving to create a larger reality that conforms to it.
Sons striving to outdo fathers.
He was striving to become.
