conform to

VERB
  1. behave in accordance or in agreement with
    Follow my example
    Follow a pattern
  2. fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction
    does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?
    This job doesn't match my dreams
    meet a need
  3. observe
    conform to the rules
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How To Use conform to In A Sentence

  • It did not conform to the usual stereotype of an industrial city.
  • Joint enterprises are free to use and organize labour as they see fit, but they must conform to Soviet labour laws. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
  • Or, conversely, to mediate space to conform to the properties of each and every particle in it. METAPLANETARY
  • In the first place, chemical solutions can conform to the geometry of the sample vessel or object being irradiated.
  • In exchange, they must conform to extensive social and environmental criteria.
  • I'm reminded of the first Christian legislators, who didn't quickly abolish the tolerant Roman laws regarding practices which didn't conform to the natural law, or which were actually contrary to it, such as concubinage and slavery," Cardinal Cottier wrote. CathNews
  • His description of the height and build of the person does not conform to the height and build of the appellant at the relevant time.
  • Such foreign-controlled labs may help adapt or develop products and/or production processes to better conform to local conditions.
  • The third, and worst, degree of turpitude is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautified in such a fashion as to conform to the notions and prejudices of a given public. Check out ...
  • The proposition of structuralists such as Althusser is that institutional structures (in the sense of a structure of social roles and social norms) are a basic, non-reducible feature of the world and the actions, values, self-images and the like of individual human agents must conform to these structures because individual agency, properly understood, is in fact constituted by such structures. Social Institutions
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