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The size of the pieces of the cleaning pie - time, chemistry, mechanical, and temperature - are constantly changing in size to conform to the type of soil to be cleaned. – Brian Bluhm	added by ProfitMaxChemical 2 years ago
An American priority must be preventing the collapse of the Afghan government, lest the Taliban’s partners, including al Qaeda and other jihadist terrorists, re-establish a base to plan, prepare and direct attacks against the U.S., its allies and others who don’t conform to their perverted interpretation of Islam. Other objectives should include limiting the humanitarian disaster and ensuring that the gains the Afghan people—especially women and girls—made since 2001 aren’t lost. – Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster	added by MoWali 2 years ago
Frankly, I find this whole act unconscionable and not all in the spirit by which The Biden administration promised to govern. President Biden ran on a supposed platform of unity but President Biden actions speak directly to the contrary. Apparently, unity is only for those who conform, when I joined the Board under the Trump Administration, there were holdovers from the Obama Administration. They were not terminated but instead served alongside Michael Wynne. This mix of perspective, experience, and belief systems ensured there was diversity - a value the Democratic party purports to hold above all else. – Meaghan Mobbs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I certainly feel some sympathy for him because I don’t think that you should be ostracized or criticized for being different, and I think we have all known from the start that Bryson is different and he is not going to conform to the way people want him to be, there are certainly things that he has done in the past that have brought some of this stuff on himself. I’m not saying that he’s completely blameless in this. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Commissioner Harrison was the perfect fit to take what was a very difficult task of getting police officers to conform to a new way of doing things and Commissioner Harrison had enough stature in the community where Commissioner Harrison was able to bridge that gap, and Commissioner Harrison was spectacular. – Mitch Landrieu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Ergonomics is really the field of trying to fit the jobs to the workers, instead of the workers having to conform and adapt to the job, by using tools such as the Ironhand we are really trying to mitigate any potential concerns or physical demands that may eventually cause a medical concern for that individual operator. – Stephen Krajcarski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Rudy Giuliani had any character, I would say it's perfectly in character. It displeases Rudy Giuliani when reality doesn't conform to the image that Rudy Giuliani has of it, i do not expect Rudy Giuliani to go graciously. I do expect Rudy Giuliani to go. But I think pretty soon we'll get the stab in the back theories. We'll get the dark conspiracy theories continued. And Rudy Giuliani will make life as difficult as Rudy Giuliani can for the incoming Biden TransitionPeople of color administration. – John Bolton	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is clear that tomorrow's in person voting does not conform, and can not conform with these CDC guidelines. We can not conduct this election tomorrow, the in-person voting for 13 hours tomorrow, and conform to these guidelines. – Governor DeWine	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When I got my Emmy nomination this year, my third one, I was like this is weird. I thought, there has to be a bigger reason and I thought, OK, maybe it's about this case and maybe its about raising awareness so that everyone knows our lives are in danger, and a lot of people aren't talking about this case and it has implications for the LGBTQ community, but it has implications for women and anyone who doesn't conform to someone else's idea of like how you should be a man or a woman or both or neither. – Laverne Cox	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The dialogue would not open by itself though the United States repeatedly talks about resumption of dialogue like a parrot without considering any realistic proposal that would fully conform with the interests of both sides, if the United States is to move towards producing a result, time will not be enough. – Kwon Jong Gun	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Once complete, Kubrat Pulev can come before the Commission in July to demonstrate that Kubrat Pulev can conform to principles of respect. – Andy Foster	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Tax policy is pretty complicated. There are times when individual returns can instruct you. Other times, you might seek a business return, it has to conform to the principle of a pretty narrow law. – Richard Neal	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Society pressures young people to conform to certain standards, and Prince was anything but standardized. – Michael Kim	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I didn't think about the code. I should have, but I didn't, i’m going to try to figure out how we can make it conform to the requirements and we will see how that works out. – Myra Becker	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Strategically, the Obama administration made a bet that the deal would spur Iran to stop its rogue-state actions and conform to international norms, that bet was a loser with massive repercussions for all people living in Middle East. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The building does not conform to international regulations but we have reorganized it ... to make sure there is no contamination. – Dr Hilaire Mazibu	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Making exceptions for wealthy residents hardly seems to conform to constitutional principles. – Alberto Achermann	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The possibility that the administration is pressuring intelligence analysts to conform those assessments to the president's narrative, that we are winning the war against ISIS, when we are not, is unacceptable. – Ron Johnson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you see her onstage, she's daring in her own way, she doesn't conform; she does what she wants. – Katy Wu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Often we read to conform but not to educate. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Our study is the first one to show that chimps do have some control over the structure of these food grunts, when exposed to a different social culture, they can choose to shift the structure of their calls to conform and give a different grunt. – Katie Slocombe	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform. – Frieda Fromm-Reichmann	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. – Thomas Merton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago

The size of the pieces of the cleaning pie - time, chemistry, mechanical, and temperature - are constantly changing in size to conform to the type of soil to be cleaned.

– Brian Bluhm

added by ProfitMaxChemical
2 years ago

An American priority must be preventing the collapse of the Afghan government, lest the Taliban’s partners, including al Qaeda and other jihadist terrorists, re-establish a base to plan, prepare and direct attacks against the U.S., its allies and others who don’t conform to their perverted interpretation of Islam. Other objectives should include limiting the humanitarian disaster and ensuring that the gains the Afghan people—especially women and girls—made since 2001 aren’t lost.

– Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster

added by MoWali
2 years ago

Frankly, I find this whole act unconscionable and not all in the spirit by which The Biden administration promised to govern. President Biden ran on a supposed platform of unity but President Biden actions speak directly to the contrary. Apparently, unity is only for those who conform, when I joined the Board under the Trump Administration, there were holdovers from the Obama Administration. They were not terminated but instead served alongside Michael Wynne. This mix of perspective, experience, and belief systems ensured there was diversity - a value the Democratic party purports to hold above all else.

– Meaghan Mobbs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I certainly feel some sympathy for him because I don’t think that you should be ostracized or criticized for being different, and I think we have all known from the start that Bryson is different and he is not going to conform to the way people want him to be, there are certainly things that he has done in the past that have brought some of this stuff on himself. I’m not saying that he’s completely blameless in this.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Commissioner Harrison was the perfect fit to take what was a very difficult task of getting police officers to conform to a new way of doing things and Commissioner Harrison had enough stature in the community where Commissioner Harrison was able to bridge that gap, and Commissioner Harrison was spectacular.

– Mitch Landrieu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ergonomics is really the field of trying to fit the jobs to the workers, instead of the workers having to conform and adapt to the job, by using tools such as the Ironhand we are really trying to mitigate any potential concerns or physical demands that may eventually cause a medical concern for that individual operator.

– Stephen Krajcarski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Rudy Giuliani had any character, I would say it's perfectly in character. It displeases Rudy Giuliani when reality doesn't conform to the image that Rudy Giuliani has of it, i do not expect Rudy Giuliani to go graciously. I do expect Rudy Giuliani to go. But I think pretty soon we'll get the stab in the back theories. We'll get the dark conspiracy theories continued. And Rudy Giuliani will make life as difficult as Rudy Giuliani can for the incoming Biden TransitionPeople of color administration.

– John Bolton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is clear that tomorrow's in person voting does not conform, and can not conform with these CDC guidelines. We can not conduct this election tomorrow, the in-person voting for 13 hours tomorrow, and conform to these guidelines.

– Governor DeWine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When I got my Emmy nomination this year, my third one, I was like this is weird. I thought, there has to be a bigger reason and I thought, OK, maybe it's about this case and maybe its about raising awareness so that everyone knows our lives are in danger, and a lot of people aren't talking about this case and it has implications for the LGBTQ community, but it has implications for women and anyone who doesn't conform to someone else's idea of like how you should be a man or a woman or both or neither.

– Laverne Cox

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The dialogue would not open by itself though the United States repeatedly talks about resumption of dialogue like a parrot without considering any realistic proposal that would fully conform with the interests of both sides, if the United States is to move towards producing a result, time will not be enough.

– Kwon Jong Gun

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Once complete, Kubrat Pulev can come before the Commission in July to demonstrate that Kubrat Pulev can conform to principles of respect.

– Andy Foster

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Tax policy is pretty complicated. There are times when individual returns can instruct you. Other times, you might seek a business return, it has to conform to the principle of a pretty narrow law.

– Richard Neal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Society pressures young people to conform to certain standards, and Prince was anything but standardized.

– Michael Kim

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I didn't think about the code. I should have, but I didn't, i’m going to try to figure out how we can make it conform to the requirements and we will see how that works out.

– Myra Becker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Strategically, the Obama administration made a bet that the deal would spur Iran to stop its rogue-state actions and conform to international norms, that bet was a loser with massive repercussions for all people living in Middle East.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The building does not conform to international regulations but we have reorganized it ... to make sure there is no contamination.

– Dr Hilaire Mazibu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Making exceptions for wealthy residents hardly seems to conform to constitutional principles.

– Alberto Achermann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The possibility that the administration is pressuring intelligence analysts to conform those assessments to the president's narrative, that we are winning the war against ISIS, when we are not, is unacceptable.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you see her onstage, she's daring in her own way, she doesn't conform; she does what she wants.

– Katy Wu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Often we read to conform but not to educate.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Our study is the first one to show that chimps do have some control over the structure of these food grunts, when exposed to a different social culture, they can choose to shift the structure of their calls to conform and give a different grunt.

– Katie Slocombe

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

– Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

– Thomas Merton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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