Word: conforming
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...Harvard wants to respect the community, whatever they propose has to conform with the guidelines,” he says. “That’s what that purpose is. That has to be finalized...
...surprising new trend in Supreme Court thinking. Overseas legal practices were also cited by the court in the 2002 ruling on the mentally retarded and in a 2003 decision overturning a Texas law banning gay sex. For his part, Scalia blasted his brethren for suggesting that "American law should conform to the laws of the rest of the world" and pointed out that the U.S. has unique legal traditions...
...Moloney chose cases devoid of issues of violence or abuse, reasoning that these would be more revealing of judges' "core assumptions." He concluded that "presumptions about gender were an important aspect of judicial thinking . . . I found that mothers were likely to be successful if they appeared to conform to a maternal stereotype of self-sacrifice on behalf of their children. Generally, fathers were successful when mothers were judged to be in some way inadequate - that is, fathers tended to be successful by default...
...with the promise of such great things, have college students now begun to live by unreasonable expectations? My friend’s insistence on appearing happy, my own confusion in the wake of freshman disillusionment—these were merely different reactions to the same problem: the need to conform to an external conception of how our lives should...
...right, for electoral support is to put this country on an ugly road to theocracy. Dick Marti Tifton, Georgia, U.S. The continued focus of the mainstream media on the Evangelicals and conservatives who align themselves with the Republican Party perpetuates the myth that most, if not all, Evangelicals conform to the conservative Republican social agenda. Many Evangelicals, however, care deeply about poverty, health care, the economy and the effects of globalization on the poor. Thousands of young Evangelicals are not content with a faith that fails to address the relevant social issues of our day and are quietly working...