That is, they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity.

When James I succeeded her in 1603, however, he instituted a policy designed to enforce religious conformity.

Those whose job it is to enforce conformity therefore frequently resort to cautionary tales.

She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.

And rather than thwarting serious crime, the cameras are being used to enforce social conformity in ways that Americans may prefer to avoid.

But his new position as speaker of Congress gives him a less direct role in enforcing conformity.

The Independent party was angry that Parliament remained in the business of enforcing religious conformity at all.

I had never encountered anything quite like it: a merciless satire on the use of language to enforce rigid conformity.

It has been speculated that the latter ban was enacted to enforce conformity of appearance.

Yet there is no overriding central authority to enforce conformity to social rules and taboos.