6 sentences with “conform”

After James I died in 1625 and his son Charles I came to the throne, the Puritans became the target of increasing state pressure to conform.

According to Freud, the mind was forced to conform to outside social pressure while enslaved to its own unconscious desires (the "urges") that sought unlimited power and pleasure.

After the Revolutionary War, the ideology that "all men are created equal" did not conform to reality, as the revolutionary generation could not resolve the contradictions of freedom and slavery in the new United States.

Although he was never able to force all his subjects to conform to Christian orthodoxy (especially in rural regions far from the capital), Emperor Justinian launched a series of attacks and persecution campaigns against heretical sects.

A Polish priest, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), was the first to argue in a book published just before his death that the whole system would conform to reality if the sun were at the centre of the orbits instead of the earth: this concept is called heliocentrism.

Freud then identified another area of the unconscious as the "Superego": the social pressure to conform, the confrontation with external authority, and the overwhelming sense of shame and inadequacy that can, and usually does, result from facing all the pressures of life in human society.