Word: conforming
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...Turkey advances in its efforts toward fiscal reform, it must do the same on the human-rights and civil-liberties front if its E.U. application is to proceed. Jean-Christophe Filori, the E.U.'s enlargement spokesman, said the law is "incompatible with the Copenhagen criteria" to which Turkey must conform. Even Dogan agrees that the law is flawed. "I too take issue with the parts that limit freedom of expression or would restrict use of the Internet," he says. "Of course I am on the side of freedom." But he is not going to campaign against a measure that "confirms...
According to shocked and baffled friends and classmates, Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica. "He was definitely not one to conform. He would not settle for just any old explanation," says Amanda Dolan, 19, who took a college religion class with Helder and was charmed and impressed by his accounts of out-of-body experiences. "He said death is an illusion," Dolan continues. "He would also say, 'You are the same person after death...
...days. Not only that, the legislature has voted that the cabinet should be pared down to 19 members, including one responsible for managing a single Palestinian security apparatus. Even more challenging to Arafat's autocratic style of running Palestinian affairs is the legislature's demand, currently being refashioned to conform to legal requirements, that the post of a prime minister be created, to oversee the day-to-day running of the PA. They also want him to punish those guilty of corruption. The message from the Palestinian legislature, and from the streets, is that they want Arafat...
...death exists, and you fear it, you do anything to avoid it. (This is the same way pain operates. Naturally we strive to avoid negative emotion/pain.) You allow yourself to fear death! World authorities allowed, and still allow you to fear death! In avoiding death you are forced to conform, if you fail to conform, you suffer mentally and physically. (Are world powers utilizing the natural survival instinct in a way that allows them to capitalize on the people?) To "live" (avoid death) in this society you are forced to conform/slave away. I?m here to help you realize/ understand...
...world is going to make us conform to their definition of success, but we shouldn’t bow to that pressure,” Mulfinger said. “We should try to live up to our own definition of success...