adhere to something

Examples of adhere

adhere
The biofilm's physical properties play important roles in controlling its metabolic activity and its ability to adhere to the substratum and itself.
Through social practices, citizens or social agents adhere to these foundational principles for the sake of social recognition and reward, thereby ensuring their reproduction.
It is recognized that this monocusp does not last for very long, in that it tends to adhere to the outflow patch.
This negotiation process can be tricky, and must ultimately make sense to the adolescent or s0he will not adhere to the plan.
These data suggest that even the earliest multi-word utterances adhere to syntactic constraints.
Local producers of serum adhered to this model.
In sociocultural terms, this is a view more or less stringently adhered to by a sixth of the world's population.
Its seeds are enclosed in a calyx exuding extremely sticky resin which adheres strongly to feathers.
Electronic institutions identify a set of norms that the agents should adhere to when they participate in a particular institution.
A social contract is a commitment on behalf of an agent towards the institution to adhere to its norms.
The slow, halting, sliding steps appear as though the feet are adhering to the floor.
Such uncertainties notwithstanding, most ministers and critics of enthusiasm in that period adhered to a corpuscular account of individual and collective imagination.
There may be pressure to adhere to methods and materials.
Effect of temperature and approach\\separation rates on binding and unbinding mechanisms of two adhering membranes exposing mobile ligand and receptor groups.
And so to the third interface (multiparametric) and the mapping strategies that were implemented to adhere to the observations outlined above.
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