Word: conformance
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...course, the U.S. still wants to deter Israel from initiating conflicts in the region, especially nuclear conflicts. But Israel is most likely to conform its behavior to American requests when American abandonment is a credible threat--when U.S./Israeli relations are frostiest. If Israel were confident of unqualified American support, it would be unwilling to exhibit such remarkable restraint while absorbing Iraqi Scuds...
Harvard not only teaches students to stay awake at night, but also to expect others to conform to their own masochistic regimens. Seventy-four percent of those surveyed, when asked the latest time that they would telephone other students, gave the same hour that they normally go to sleep themselves...
...problem always defined in terms of "What women are doing wrong (or failing to do) in class?" Why not address the real problem--sections dominated by a few people who are overly aggressive...I'm tired of being told that women are too passive and that I must conform to a standard I don't value...
...will feature various genres of writing, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The only requirement is that submissions conform to each issue's specific theme, organizers said...
...singularity of being that leaps from his best male portraits. They are always cast in the passive voice: the madonnas with their union of tenderness, patrician grace and a certain country solidity, and the nymphs and goddesses (Venus especially), those Venetian odalisques whose weighty gold- pink flesh may not conform to modern conventions of beauty but excited Titian's contemporaries to rapture. There too Titian embodied the assumptions of his time, place and class. What terser image of sociosexual politics in 16th century Venice could one ask for than Titian's Danae, princess of Argos, seduced by Zeus...