Sentence examples for tends to conform from inspiring English sources

In a democracy, reality tends to conform to the pseudo-event.

Because simulators allow test pilots to "fly" the aircraft well before the first prototype has been built, the behaviour of the plane tends to conform to specifications and expectations.

Celia Davies, director of Photoworks who devised the biennial programme, said she wanted to bring together photographers who offered a new perspective on identity and representation, "cutting through, dissecting and hopefully in some way reshaping" our visual culture, which tends to conform to a single idea of beauty, fashion and gender.

A little more pellucidity please, Bagehot.Glenn Mainland Raven, CanadaGood behaviourSIR – It is always interesting to see scientific confirmation of what most of us already took for granted, this time the fact that social behaviour tends to conform to its surroundings ("Can the can", November 22nd).

That is, graphene tends to conform more to a substrate surface with smaller in-plane waviness.

That is, graphene tends to conform more to a substrate surface with smaller out-of-plane waviness.

"Do people tend to conform to group pressure?" Aronson said in an e-mail interview.

In general, practice has tended to conform to prevailing local custom, provided this does not infringe on basic Jain principles.

Such views are implicit in the figures of early Byzantine female saints, who tended to conform to types: penitent whores and virgin martyrs.

The investment choices that fund managers make in emerging markets tend to conform to how upbeat they are about the global economy and just how resistant they expect companies in those markets would be to any pervasive slump.

Every person is different, of course, but the accounts that our utterly special fellow citizens give of their lives and families nonetheless tend to conform to certain recognizable templates.