How To Use Nonconformist In A Sentence

It was the first Nonconformist chapel in the area.
Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
In Britain many were based on parish churches or, especially, Nonconformist chapels; the celebrated Huddersfield Choral Society was founded in 1836.
The nonconformist Bethel and Seion chapels had originally entered into association with the Welsh Presbyterian Union of the United States, but they joined the United Church of Canada in 1933 and after 1936 Welsh services ceased.
It was unable to insert a clause in the Imperial Abolition Act allowing nonconformist ministers to solemnize marriages, as it was custom for colonial laws to follow rather than precede those in the metropolitan society.

Welsh nationalism was about neither land nor Home Rule but was founded on the Nonconformist campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church, which was maintained by the payment of tithes.
Matthew Henry (1662-1714), "nonconformist" Presbyterian minister in England, and author of Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage.
Apparently, the way to be coolly nonconformist is strict conformity to a nonconformist trope? EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Best email in a while
Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
Persecuting Nonconformists could have a knock-on effect in a community, hitting those who were loyal to the established Church.
Now, one of the side-effects of how Mennonite and Amish culture works, is that nonconformists/those who are “too curious” end up eventually being completely shunned and ostracized from the entire community. Blocking the information highway
In the last couple of years, though, a crop of novels has appeared which, like these two classics, combine pleasure with politics, and carefully reinforce the prejudices of nonconformists everywhere.
There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.
A devout Calvinist Methodist and strict advocate of temperance, Davies became a patron of Nonconformist and other charitable and educational causes.
They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
But the Korean company thinks the Genesis will attract a class of "nonconformist" consumers who want luxury cars but are not concerned about the brand they drive, said John Krafcik, vice president of product development. Hyundai Gambles
This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church.
They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
Given the peculiarities of the Nazi state and the lack of an active nonconformist tradition, there could be no unified mass resistance movement in Germany.
The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
Arthur Newsholme, Newman's older colleague, had his origins in a similar nonconformist background.
When the flower children of the 1960s chose the nonconformist road, many of them traveled in unassuming Volkswagen bugs.
Toyota hopes the quirky styling will appeal to all those young nonconformists out there.
The nonconformist painter's incompatibility with French colonial life provided Maugham with a pretext to explore the role of the artist in society.
Current or former teenage girls are strongly advised to see Ghost World at their earliest convenience, particularly if they're current or former misfits and/or nonconformists.
Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours.
Instead of doing things simply because that's the way they've always been done, these nonconformists are turning elsewhere - to science, for instance - in search of more efficient ways.
There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.
A more important transatlantic forum for cooperation and exchange of knowledge was the Teetotal Movement in which Nonconformists predominated.
They include a substantial number of international students, and they have a decidedly nonconformist campus culture.
Because of its trendy college and relatively liberal cadres of lawyers and civil servants, Austin became a magnet for nonconformists.
For this, particular thanks are due to the punk and metal movements, partly for their nonconformist spirit and partly for pioneering the idea that musical ability was merely an advantage, rather than a requirement, for starting a band.
Nonconformists were outraged and many of those who had deserted the party in 1886 came back.
His followers believed people were inherently evil and nonconformist thought was a capital punishment.
Many were held in the scientific institutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
The defence case was lost but their friendship continued, possibly cemented by links of nonconformist religion and an infectious sense of fun as well as chemistry itself.
The outlaw as defiant nonconformist, as well as social outcast, parallels being an artist who makes functional objects and being an individual who takes pride in the power of invention and skill.
It is typical of his nonconformist approach that he can say: ‘At this stage, it's all about structure and telling the story.’
It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
Born into a dissenting family of Nonconformists, a precursor to the Christian socialist tradition, Blake railed against the powers of both Church and Crown.
Despite its rather nonconformist looks, the latest Nissan Micra has done exceptionally well and now tops the category with 3,496 sales.
Early gay culture was like a refuge for all sorts of misfits and nonconformists.
They are often indistinguishable in external appearance from the larger nonconformist chapels in the next street.
For the post-Soviet KGB, which still occupied the same armada of buildings in historic central Moscow, there were no more ideological nonconformists to persecute.
Under Stalin's tyranny, the doctrine was employed as a pretext for the persecution and silencing of nonconformist writers.
Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half. Violence Vanquished
Violinist Mat Maneri is as wonderfully nonconformist as was his father, the composer and reedman Joe Maneri. Families That Play Together . . .
An nonconformist can be valiant, effective and pleasant, provided that he hasn't fallen into the conformism of being nonconformist, which is the worst kind of conformism. Saying The Right Thing
While Michael Adams, who was very much a nonconformist, may have taken him under his wing for a while, the cultural politics of the University at the time I was living there were still quite elitist.
Nonconformists 'provincialism, the right way can hardly be to provincialise us all round. Culture and Anarchy
The Quakers were, and still are, nonconformist pacifists.
Even in England, where the established Church was Anglican, Nonconformists and radicals organized a National Education League to ensure that under the 1870 Education Act the catechism would not be taught in rate-supported schools.
It does something rare in contemporary American filmmaking: it takes a sober and nonconformist look at certain complex aspects of contemporary social life.
One explanation is that, unlike farmers and trade unionists, sexual nonconformists did not have enough of a following to legitimize their opposition to majority norms.
Even now, half a century after Hadow's lecture, much of this music is still to be heard in parish churches up and down the country and even more in nonconformist chapels.
And his church, was it one of two grand old edifices which still adorn the adjoining parishes of New and Old Shoreham, or merely a nonconformist 'Little Bethel'?
A comprehensive national Church embracing all but a small number of sectaries and papists would have been a very different matter from a restricted religious establishment, co-existing with large numbers of nonconformists.
One cannot but fear that Sir Edmund Beckett, who can hardly bring himself to speak of a Nonconformist minister otherwise than as "Stiggins," or of a Nonconformist chapel otherwise than as "little Bethel," is a type of many laymen, who pique themselves on being particularly sound Churchmen, and who, in their open-handed liberality, as regards money, in support of the Church, are worthy of all honor.
Dr Masters said that these principles were at one time taken for granted by Nonconformist preachers.
About the Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) was the son of a "nonconformist". The Earth Times Online Newspaper
We speculate that these subcultural forces involve the participant in a social system that devalues nonconformist beliefs and unconventional attitudes and behaviors frequently associated with adolescent smokers.
At the city's apex resided a local elite of merchants and professionals who were proudly middle-class and predominantly Nonconformist.
They also pressure nonconformists to adhere to group mores.
the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers
Gladstone had long been a close friend of Michael Faraday, in whom nonconformist religion and science were also united, and wrote one of the earliest and most popular biographies of Faraday.
And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
So a Republican in Hollywood is a true nonconformist.
One nonconformist, New York Times reporter Barry Bearak, gave $250 to a Green Party candidate.
It made spirituality an exciting quest for nonconformists!
A more important transatlantic forum for cooperation and exchange of knowledge was the Teetotal Movement in which Nonconformists predominated.
He's a sort of a contrarian ( 'nonconformist' is overworked, na?). The Times of India
The trouble for me was having to decide between a black tank that read ‘You nonconformists are all alike’ and a red T-shirt that had the AP logo on the front.
Lee's was the voice of the teenage nonconformist, looking for kicks in a boring suburb, diffident at best about the family structures by which he was nevertheless completely defined.
The Beatles liked to be thought of as eccentric nonconformists.
It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
By the closing years of this era some nonconformists were living quite well.
Traditionalists argue that the so-called nonconformist has become the boring norm, and that the nominee or wedding guest who respects the rules has as many ways of expressing his individuality as the one who flouts them. Men In Black
The ex-nonconformists have emerged, and were honoured in 1987 with an officially sponsored major exhibition in Moscow.
My own cultural background of Welsh political Liberalism and Nonconformist religious conscience - in indirect descent from Lloyd George - has inflected my approach.
My ideas of free speech, democracy, and religious tolerance followed to win over even the most stubborn of nonconformists.
The Church people and Nonconformists willingly joined together for this good cause, and made the undertaking very successful.
The child of a nonconformist father learnt to drink deep of the Catholic tradition.
It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise.
That's because the pledge was regarded as a badge of nonconformist pride.
This view prevailed among nonconformists, of course, not least among them Cartwright himself and Richard Baxter a century later.
their rabidly nonconformist deportment has made them legendary
It stands in marked contrast to what (both in the Anglican and Nonconformist traditions) has prevailed from the Reformation onwards.
The NRA also claims that more dual carriageways and motorways will save lives, suggesting that the nonconformists are, if not anti-life, at least prepared to turn a blind eye to protect their own interests.
Emerging from the earlier Reformers with the creation of the Canadian Confederation, its initial support was based on a coalition between Ontario Nonconformists and Quebec anticlericals.
Church-building was matched by equally rapid growth of nonconformist chapels.
From the 1950s to the '70s it suppressed dissent, it harassed nonconformists and there's good evidence that it damaged the careers of some of our most unconventional writers and thinkers.
Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds.
In the Soviet Union, where all religion was practically prohibited and anti-Semitism was sanctioned by the state, dyeing eggs was only slightly less daring than buying matzo, which is why, I suspect, my nonconformist mother rebelliously did both. Peace Meals
They were British and they were Nonconformist.
Such conditions on the labour market and in the unions favour discrimination against minorities, such as persons with foreign origin, women, dissidents and political nonconformists.
His fiercely nonconformist parents, small shopkeepers, brutally opposed and curbed his bent for painting.
The Nonconformists, however, objected because in localities where they were in the minority the religious instruction given in the schools would be denominational, that is Anglican. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.
The nonconformist chapels, moral beacons to many in the Victorian heyday, were now suffering from falling membership, declining funds, and diminished authority.
He was educated in a Nonconformist academy; his abilities lay in mathematics, engineering, and business administration.
Brought up in a Nonconformist household, he remained deeply religious.
Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient.
While popular writers conform to the rules of the dominant culture, literary authors are nonconformists, true to their own vision.
Nonconformists make the strength of the Liberal majority in the House of Commons, and that, therefore, the leading Liberal statesmen, to get the support of the Nonconformists, forsake the notion of fairly apportioning Church property in Ireland among the chief religious communions, declare that the national mind has decided against new endowments, and propose simply to disestablish and disendow the present establishment in Ireland without establishing or endowing any other. Culture and Anarchy
The company was founded in 1946 by Peter's father Jack Hudson and is based in a former nonconformist chapel in Shawclough Road.
He was educated in a Nonconformist academy; his abilities lay in mathematics, engineering, and business administration.
It was the first Nonconformist chapel in the area.
Nonconformist borrowers were thrown a lifeline only five years ago when this new breed of mortgage lender was born.
And he had some very good points about how our society exoticizes and seems to celebrate nonconformity, when in reality to act as nonconformist is often to be labelled an irrelevant romantic and to not be taken seriously.
In an irony now so familiar as to be reflexive, young professionals lured by the charm of a boho district wind up crowding out the very nonconformists who gave the neighborhood its character.
In keeping with the times, George was a strict, church-going Anglican who nevertheless admired Nonconformists.
He was educated in a Nonconformist academy; his abilities lay in mathematics, engineering, and business administration.
Priestley, a nonconformist Presbyterian minister, was supported in his scientific studies by the patronage of the Earl of Shelburne, in whose house Priestley was tutor.
Hers is an ambitious and comprehensive philosophy that promises to preserve the institution's nonconformist legacy.
Priestley's nonconformist views and his support for the French Revolution brought him into conflict with the Government and many people, including George III, believed he was an atheist.
And that of course, resulted in the development of what they used to call the Dissenters, or Nonconformists.
I am a person who is kind of nonconformist in emotions. Oregon Woman Convicted of Acting Insufficiently Traumatized
She's an individualist, not a nonconformist.
A dissident is a nonconformist, a protestor or a rebel who disagrees with the majority view on anything from politics, to religion, to which football team is the best.
He had to choose a Scottish university if he was to obtain his education without going overseas since, at this time, Nonconformists were not allowed to matriculate at Oxford or Cambridge.
In an irony now so familiar as to be reflexive, young professionals lured by the charm of a boho district wind up crowding out the very nonconformists who gave the neighborhood its character.
Now that the real West has its own glass office towers, drive-time radio shows, and Olive Gardens, the desire to believe in nonconformist savages, noble or not, may be even stronger. The Heartland of Darkness
Although moderate nonconformists did confront and disobey civil and ecclesiastical governments, their opposition was distinguished by an advocacy of non-violent defiance as the proper response of the godly.

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