conformance
Marketing plays on our insecurities, our need to conform.
He encouraged me as an artist by helping me to realize that performers didn't have to conform to the accepted style.
Women writers may have written under male names to conform with social prejudices, or simply to maintain their privacy.
The company told contractors that plants would have to conform to US factory conditions.
The clinic conforms with all current laws, regulations and patient safety practices.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization
anti-classical
anti-conventional
anti-institutional
anti-traditional
conventionally
costume
counter-tradition
crowd
custom
maverick
moonraker
mores
multicultural
multiculturalism
traditionalism
traditionalist
traditionally
ultra-conservatism
ultra-conservative

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Quality and standard
Obeying & breaking the law

Examples of conforming

conforming

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Note that all types conforming to this grammar are products whose terms are either primitive or function types.
Conservatives made their messages compatible with the rhetorical environment, understanding whether consciously or unconsciously that their prospects hinged on conforming to it.
We produce them, and then, by conforming our actions to their constraints, we reproduce them.
In their popular readership they comprised an evangelical reading community that was neither exclusively conforming nor exclusively nonconformist.
For the performer, conforming to backing tracks or click tracks is very different from interacting with responsive partners.
They have to learn the local legal constraints on physician action so that they can make judgments about conforming with or violating the law.
Most theories of syntax deal only with inputs conforming to their grammatical rules.
Politeness is the practice of conforming linguistic action to current social expectations that are bound to speech communities.
Articles not conforming to these instructions will be returned to the corresponding author for correction, and will delay review and publication.
He can therefore choose to avoid those consequences if he wishes by conforming to the officer's order.
These forms had the advantage of conforming to the neoclassical conditions for constrained consumer maximization.
In doing so, we were conforming to one of the most fundamental aspects of the western intellectual tradition.
The result of such recoarsening is a conforming triangulation that would be obtainable from the original triangulation by a sequence of refinement steps.
The animals will be rational agents in the sense of conforming to the minimal version of rational choice theory.
Only by conforming "to judicious rules" can women "pass through the change with little or no suffering" (93, 92).
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