Word: conformity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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 quietly working to alleviate human suffering in impoverished communities across the country...
...week’s grant package because Lurie said he thought the group—which has weekly Bible sessions and in its constitution requires individuals to “be comfortable with the purposes and principles of faith of Under Construction”—did not conform to the council’s constitutional policy on religious discrimination...
...novel’s Prologue we are told of Victor Ransome Starling, Charlotte’s Nobel Prizewinning professor. His famous experiment on cats demonstrated that control animals in the presence of those biologically induced to engage in rampant sex did so too simply because of environmental pressures to conform. “In that moment,” Wolfe writes, “originated a discovery that has since radically altered the understanding of animal and human behaviour: the existence—indeed, pervasiveness—of ‘cultural para-stimuli...
...form ultimately proves elusive. At its center is the theme of the dangers associated with a mad pursuit of the dream vision of love, a vision so compelling that it can blind us to the good things that stare us in the face. Consequently, it cannot quite conform to the demands imposed by the artifice of comedy...
...about the need for drugs—to me, they described middle school. I felt weary—weary of hiding my hunger for poetry, and my need to express myself in unconventional ways. I felt branded by the pressure to fit in, to keep my mouth shut, to conform. And as I looked around me, I thought those ancient empty streets might as well be my streets, the limiting world of early adolescence...