(1) The u2018caucusu2019 was a group of self-appointed local notables, often nonconformist business men, and usually strongly critical of the Liberal Party leadership as being too cautious and too aristocratic.

(2) The nonconformist painter's incompatibility with French colonial life provided Maugham with a pretext to explore the role of the artist in society.

(3) His followers believed people were inherently evil and nonconformist thought was a capital punishment.

(4) Under Stalin's tyranny, the doctrine was employed as a pretext for the persecution and silencing of nonconformist writers.

(5) The Quakers were, and still are, nonconformist pacifists.

(6) Hers is an ambitious and comprehensive philosophy that promises to preserve the institution's nonconformist legacy.

(7) They include a substantial number of international students, and they have a decidedly nonconformist campus culture.

(8) Lee's was the voice of the teenage nonconformist , looking for kicks in a boring suburb, diffident at best about the family structures by which he was nevertheless completely defined.

(9) Given the peculiarities of the Nazi state and the lack of an active nonconformist tradition, there could be no unified mass resistance movement in Germany.

(10) Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage.

(11) One nonconformist , New York Times reporter Barry Bearak, gave $250 to a Green Party candidate.

(12) For this, particular thanks are due to the punk and metal movements, partly for their nonconformist spirit and partly for pioneering the idea that musical ability was merely an advantage, rather than a requirement, for starting a band.

(13) It is typical of his nonconformist approach that he can say: u2018At this stage, it's all about structure and telling the story.u2019

(14) A dissident is a nonconformist , a protestor or a rebel who disagrees with the majority view on anything from politics, to religion, to which football team is the best.

(15) It does something rare in contemporary American filmmaking: it takes a sober and nonconformist look at certain complex aspects of contemporary social life.

(16) Despite its rather nonconformist looks, the latest Nissan Micra has done exceptionally well and now tops the category with 3,496 sales.

(17) Gladstone had long been a close friend of Michael Faraday, in whom nonconformist religion and science were also united, and wrote one of the earliest and most popular biographies of Faraday.

(18) So a Republican in Hollywood is a true nonconformist .

(19) The defence case was lost but their friendship continued, possibly cemented by links of nonconformist religion and an infectious sense of fun as well as chemistry itself.

(20) His fiercely nonconformist parents, small shopkeepers, brutally opposed and curbed his bent for painting.

(21) While Michael Adams, who was very much a nonconformist , may have taken him under his wing for a while, the cultural politics of the University at the time I was living there were still quite elitist.

(22) Priestley's nonconformist views and his support for the French Revolution brought him into conflict with the Government and many people, including George III, believed he was an atheist.

(23) When the flower children of the 1960s chose the nonconformist road, many of them traveled in unassuming Volkswagen bugs.

(24) We speculate that these subcultural forces involve the participant in a social system that devalues nonconformist beliefs and unconventional attitudes and behaviors frequently associated with adolescent smokers.

(25) The advent of universal voting rights was preceded by a great deal of fretting on the part of liberal thinkers about whether an enfranchised majority would crush civil liberties or suppress nonconformist behaviour.

(26) In an irony now so familiar as to be reflexive, young professionals lured by the charm of a boho district wind up crowding out the very nonconformists who gave the neighborhood its character.

(27) While popular writers conform to the rules of the dominant culture, literary authors are nonconformists , true to their own vision.

(28) At the city's apex resided a local elite of merchants and professionals who were proudly middle-class and predominantly Nonconformist .

(29) My ideas of free speech, democracy, and religious tolerance followed to win over even the most stubborn of nonconformists .

(30) Teetotalism was a largely Nonconformist movement