Word: conformity
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Texas law defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman is no justification for the State Board of Education to tweak textbooks to conform to its own agenda. If the Texas Board of Education is so desperate to inculcate schoolchildren with notions of morality, then it would do well to lead by example. We suggest it begin by obeying...
...Today, however, the cream of the world's players all tend to play their professional soccer in European clubs, where they're expected to conform to the discipline of the local coaching system. Not that individual skill and flair is completely knocked out of Brazilians turning out in England or Spain, simply that it's placed within the frame of a large, more disciplined and organized team effort. The European clubs seek the silky ball handling skills, speed and unpredictability of players who play the Brazilian game - whether from Latin America, Africa or even France or Portugal...
Capital Research engaged in directed brokerage—a practice American Funds said was “consistent” with SEC regulations—until recently, when it halted the practice to conform with the proposed SEC rule change, according to a statement on its website...
...being thrown summarily out of work, particularly teachers, several thousand teachers and university professors. And it was to fix that particular point that we adjusted how those were handled in early April. That was only after I had spent two months trying to get the de-Baathification committee to conform to our original policy...
...Washington Post that seemed to undercut his words. President Bush, asked whether he signed off on any memos that might have loosened the rules of interrogation, said he did not recall seeing any such documents and that "the authorization I issued was that anything we did would conform to U.S. laws" and international treaties...