(n.) One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.
Example Sentences:
(1) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(2) Charlie Hebdo was launched by a group of "non-conformists" who had previously run a monthly called Hara Kiri (whose subtitle read: "dumb and nasty").
(3) As a test of the hypothesis that consistent short sleepers tend to be less reflective and more conformist in their thinking than long sleepers, the I-E scale scores of 15 short and 15 long sleepers were compared.
(4) Post-conformists obtained the highest mean scores on Picture Arrangement; however, there was no difference among the lower stages on this subtest.
(5) SCT findings revealed an expected pattern for middle childhood with the preponderance of children falling into impulsive, self-protective, and conformist stages of ego development.
(6) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
(7) More research is also needed on the treatment of the Passive Conformist group.
(8) Maintaining abstinence in both crises was consistently associated with being in serious-minded (telic) and conformist states.
(9) In the same way that Isis offers a chance for teenagers and non-conformists to rebel against their communities and families, it also offers the same for women.
(10) In the slanging match that followed, Jean-Marie Le Pen accused his daughter of turning the far right party into a conformist group “without substance”.
(11) A character in Vieira’s strong-willed mode is precisely what Newcastle need but it appears unclear as to how such a potentially challenging figure would fit into Mike Ashley’s hitherto ultra-conformist regime.
(12) Chevalier de Tromelin was hierarchically just under him; this Chevalier had a character as chilly and stiff as the Bailli was the opposite; both were ambitious and deserving officers, the Chevalier being as much conformist as his "adversary" was fiery and bold.
(13) : a) cooperative-conformist in 66 patients; b) cooperative-over-particular in 20 patients without therapeutic failure; c) non-cooperative by interest 21 (16.93%) with 11 failures (52.3%); d) completely noncooperative (nonsocial) 17-13.71% with 13 failures (76.48%).
(14) Patients with secondary Raynaud's phenomenon were found to be more distant, more conformist, more able to control their emotions and seemed to be less inclined to seek help when in trouble.
(15) Four experiments examined freely interacting groups to investigate the determinants of group members' reactions to opinion deviates and conformists.
(16) Once mocked as a marginal non-conformist with a penchant for funky hairstyles , the young firebrand is seen, even by his enemies, as a talented politician with extraordinary ambition.
(17) Instead of producing confident students who can handle any argument you throw at them, universities are a production line for cowed conformists.
(18) Lastly, because I can see Molière starting to flag and scratch at his wig, I explain how, in the 1960s and 70s, there was a brief moment when a counter-cultural agenda opposed the mainstream before being swept along by it, and how today's clamouring for "choice" masks a society of well-tamed conformists, whose addiction to media-driven fantasies of property and celebrity distracts them from their inability to shape their own lives.
(19) There is a long tradition of performing rebellious, or non-conformist, nuns in our cultural landscape and Sister Cristina shows that our fascination with them has not yet worn thin.
(20) An instrument for differentiating between individuals exhibiting conformist and nonconformist or nontraditional food consumption patterns was developed and used for recruitment and identification of respondents for a study of food-related behavior and attitudes.
Custom
Definition:
(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
(v. t.) To supply with customers.
(v. i.) To have a custom.
(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
(v. t.) To pay the customs of.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(4) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(5) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(6) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(7) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(8) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(9) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(10) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(11) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(12) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(13) TalkTalk said customers should monitor their accounts over the coming months and report anything unusual to Action Fraud.
(14) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(15) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(16) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."
(17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(18) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(19) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(20) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."