However, Arebi argues these writers do not necessarily conform to Western feminists' ideas of resistance or their definitions of patriarchy.

There is no way of conforming to other people's ideas of him.

Most people - supposedly normal people, I mean - instinctively want everybody else to conform to their own ideas of right and wrong.

But McCain was not a Russian, and it wasn't in his nature to conform to other people's ideas of how he should behave.

Policy actors are persuaded to conform to the community's consensual, knowledge-driven ideas without the epistemic community requiring a more material form of power.

We just would not conform to his ideas of what the Black Company ought to be.

Conforming to other people's ideas of blackness wasn't going to make me any more black.

The point is that women aren't hired and promoted on the basis of their abilities but on whether they do or do not conform to men's ideas of good looks.