Word: conformance
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...Zucker overly flatters himself and demonstrates a conceit that does not conform to the facts...
...various facets involved in Hoffman's performance are as founding Under layer number one he plays Dorsey a neurotic actor quickly approaching middle age. We see the tension that propels the desperate Dorsey through all his relationships. Unwilling to conform to other people's ideas, he can't take criticism and rubs his colleagues and friends the wrong way Hoffman shows Dorsey's brittle talent in every detailed highly taut motion. Basically a failure, Dorsey frantically waits tables, instructs a fledgling group of actors, and fights with an agent who can get him any acting stints. Yet glittering of charm...
...selected random handful" of murderers. However, in three simultaneous 1976 decisions, the court clarified its views on the subject, most significantly by declaring that the death penalty is not unconstitutional per se. Today all 37 states with capital punishment on the books have laws that were drafted specifically to conform with the court's latest strictures...
...situation reveals an apparent misplacement of priorities in Harvard's educational program. By refusing to adjust funding to accommodate long-term changes in student interests (VES has been oversubscribed for at least five years, according to the department). Harvard is forcing its students to conform to a pre-ordained distribution of fields rather than responding to changes in educational needs. Whether a students concentrates (or takes a course) in history or VES should be a decision based on the student's own educational objectives, not on the monetary cost of teaching the subject. Yet by under funding relatively costly departments...
...believer" in the Ten Commandments. He also, as improbable as it seems, detected parallels between his life and that of Jesus Christ. "In many ways," De Lorean said in 1980, "Jesus was an outsider. Some of the really big things in life are achieved by those who refuse to conform. I stood up for what I believed. I'm an outsider, and in my own small way I'm trying to do something...