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Moreover, we must judge these accounts by the age in which they were produced, -- an age when the mental food of the pious laity was the life of St. Francis with his five wounds and blasphemous "conformities" to the life of our Lord, and other works of a similar nature.
The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905
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Today's societal conformities have diminished even the opportunity for play.
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Much of Harry Potter's iconoclasm disappears on film, due to Hollywood's regimented conformities of set, sound and stereotyped character.
How Harry Saved Reading Norman Lebrecht 2011
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Maybe it is a genetic element in that whenever we become to complacent to conformities we endanger evolution itself.
OpEdNews - Diary: Dog Training; Bottom Up? Top Down? And is it a metaphor for our culture? 2009
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Take one look at where our conformities, well intended and not have led us.
OpEdNews - Diary: Dog Training; Bottom Up? Top Down? And is it a metaphor for our culture? 2009
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This land imposes no narrow conformities on its citizens: you can be many things and one thing.
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Every weakness is exploited by those who wish to cast dispersions on wines that are unconventional or those which do not exhibit the conformities of wines from more historic regions.
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NIST suspended SysTest due to numerous non-conformities with the NIST Handbook 150-22 Voting System Testing, which sets forth the procedures, requirements and guidance for the accreditation of testing and calibration laboratories by the National Voting Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP).
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Non-conformities included failure to create and validate test methods, improper documentation of testing and unqualified personnel.
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But rock and roll, which used to signify teenage rebellion against such conformities as school, is more at home in boozy clubs and throbbing arenas.
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