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conform English

Meaning conform meaning

What does conform mean?
Definitions in simple English

conform Verb

— If you conform to something, you behave in that manner, especially as a result of social pressure. He changed his clothes to conform to local tastes.

conform

— verb be similar, be in line with — verb (= adjust, adapt) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions We must adjust to the bad economic situation

Synonyms conform synonyms

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conform English » English

adapt match agree follow obey comply coincide adjust fit correspond harmonize concur apply to adhere accord haul go along with fit together coordinate conform to comply with be congruent agree with abide toe the line tally talk back suit submit stylize set parallel observe move in the right direction joint jibe in compliance with homologize hew harmonise formalize fit in fall into place do what is expected of one defer cross-check conforming conformable compatible be in line with

Topics conform topics

What do people use conform to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Change behavior

Conform

  • What words refer to conforming to the behavior of others?
    conform

Conjugation conform conjugation

How do you conjugate conform?

conform · verb

Examples conform examples

How do I use conform in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must conform to the rules.
We must conform to the rules.
You should conform to the rules.

Movie subtitles

I ask you to conform to the republican ethos!
I feel trapped if I conform to tradition.
Because you won't conform.
Tie them together, teach them to conform, to unite, to agree, to obey.
I simply loath it, yet I must conform, what can you do?
Oh, conform, conform.
It is essential, in this society, that we not only have a norm but that we conform to that norm!
Any man who thinks that those words are harmless or thinks that he can repeat or conform to such words as this man spoke let him take warning from the punishment you are about to witness.
You'll conform to our ideas of how you should behave.
Anything they don't understand. anything that doesn't conform to their stupid little pattern. they destroy!
But I realised long ago that in order to be popular one must conform.
Conform?
I conform to them. At least you are honest, Mr Hamilton.
I see no reason why this man my niece has got herself engaged to should not conform to the customs of his country.
Any small changes would have to conform to the character of the countryside.
But it says I'm being let go to conform with Mr. Merling's new sales setup.
Those that refused to conform were simply killed.
They call me Mad Peter. Oh, only because I don't conform.
He's got to conform. It's part of the system.
Passengers in transit will kindly conform to the terrestial behavior pattern.
In society, one must conform.
It does not conform with our dignity to have a relative tapping wheels.
Your hours must conform to the prescri.the.
There are no facts except that this boy is different, doesn't conform to your ideas of what a man is.
I hang out with you because you don't conform.
Aruan doesn't want to conform, but the master dominates him.
Details of carving on handle conform to folk-art forms indicating place of origin.
Rebel or conform?
You must conform!
In spite of Dr. Sevrin's antipathy to us, he has promised Mr. Spock that he will order his disciples to conform to our rules and regulations.
He didn't conform. So this is what his grateful people did to him.
Pathetic sheep. Trotting along from childhood to the chopping block with no thought in their heads except to conform.
These symbols don't conform.

News and current affairs

If all people conform to a particular set of beliefs, including moral codes of behavior, conflicts will disappear.
A huge benefit for the accession countries in preparing themselves to join the EU was that they were forced to conform to European business, political, and legal norms.
Coming from the pinnacle of Italian business, Berlusconi might have been expected to conform to this pattern.
It rejects the notion that there is a single civilizational ideal to which all countries should conform.
First, the Financial Stability Board should help to reduce avoidable inconsistencies across countries by propagating a set of high-level principles to which all member countries would be expected to conform when introducing new regulations.
Indeed, Chirac's tone and tactics conform to textbook Gaullist patterns.
While he claims to be pro-Western, he prefers that extraditions of indicted Serb war criminals to the Hague conform to Serbian law.
This would conform to the pattern seen in Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and Ukraine in 2004.
The failure of prices to conform to their market value makes private operation, even if efficient, socially wasteful.
Russian officials insist that their military exports conform to all applicable international laws and involve primarily defensive weaponry that will not disrupt regional power balances.
In Europe since May 2004, all clinical trials in the 25 nations of the EU must conform to the European Directive (ED) issued in 2001 at the behest of pharmaceutical industry.
That would require some extraordinary policy measures to return conditions closer to normal, and they must conform to existing treaties, which could then be revised in a calmer atmosphere to prevent recurrence of imbalances.
Since Chinese is the language of instruction at Tibetan schools and universities, anyone who wishes to be more than a poor peasant, beggar, or seller of trinkets must conform to Chinese norms, that is, become Chinese.
It is also why the rare enforcement of human rights law that we do see tends to conform to the enforcing nation's political interests.
If, for example, one extends the time period over which member states are required to conform to the rules, there is less need to modify the rules themselves.
Today, many emerging markets, from Indonesia to Mexico, are told that there is a certain code of conduct to which they must conform if they are to be successful.
Macartney refused to conform to Chinese imperial protocol by declining to kowtow to the emperor, because he was not required to do the same to his own sovereign.
We now believe that inter-Korean relations should conform to principles and standards that any member of the international community should respect.

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