Yet, although he looks like the ultimate company man, he clearly has a non-conformist streak.
Particularly at Columbia, adopting such positions was the most conformist move a student could make.
This free-flowing approach to learning contrasts markedly with the stiff, conformist image of traditional Japanese education.
Most of the Lunar men were from non-conformist backgrounds and so not part of an Oxbridge-educated elite.
The Sapeurs rebelled by wearing aggressively non-conformist clothes, including leather suits, says Gondola.
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In short, Obama is working to implement the precise policy he laid out as an unoriginal student conformist 26 years ago.
If not, then is there a way to isolate the conformist signal and select for it in a more deliberate manner?
The chapel was built in the middle of the 1800s for both non-conformist and conformist burials according to local historian David Wills.
Even in that non-conformist brotherhood Monk was unique, making harmonic contributions to the new music but never subscribing to its developing orthodoxies.
The livedoor bid for Fuji illustrated another point about Japanese capitalism: that for a seemingly cosseted, conformist activity, it is strikingly unregulated.
Tabloids have an edge when the rest of the media is conformist.
If anything, being a member of the founding family was always tremendous pressure on him, especially while he was growing up in conformist Japan.
"He is not a conformist, he is ambitious, a winner, an authentic man with strong feelings and he wanted to come to Barcelona, " he said.
Others are following and the reason is Cornwall's irreverent, independent culture, exemplified by everything from surfing to the non-conformist style of the St Ives artists.
He went on to direct such landmark dramas as The Conformist, the controversial Last Tango and historical epic The Last Emperor, winner of nine Academy Awards in 1988.
Brendan is a free spirit, a non-conformist, always challenging authority.
Charismatic and forceful enough to have made a fortune in their own right, yet conformist enough to have stayed with the same firm for life, they have always been a somewhat exotic breed.
Finally, make time to stroll around the Capitol Hill and Fremont neighborhoods for a taste of the non-conformist "alternative Seattle" that brought the world Grunge and made plaid shirts fashionable.
GM, Mr Lutz will have to stir up the world's most monolithic corporate bureaucracy, and challenge the timid, conformist thinking that dominates so much of its decision-making, especially on product development.
The other problem is that over the past two or three decades we have corrupted our film language in many ways by indulging in over-emphasis, sentimentality, repetition, over-simplification, triteness and being utterly conformist.
Author Barney Hoskyns is quoted as saying that a Mullet haircut involves "making a statement that you are a quiet 9am-to-5pm conformist in the week but you let it all hang out at weekends".
Here the past thrusts through the walls of the present, but it is not a heritage city pandering to the past: it is chaotic, relaxed and frantic, filled to the brim with its stylish, traditional, anarchic, conformist, self-centred, charming and ebullient inhabitants.
Are they going to deliver a Windows Phone 8 that matches the recommended specs with a conformist design and let Nokia take the design plaudits once more (as happened when the Titan 2 went head to head with the Lumia 900 after CES this year)?
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In the fiercely conformist world of professional sport, Wiggins, a self-styled mod, has always cut an idiosyncratic figure, discreetly customizing his Team GB cycling helmet and bike with the Royal Air Force roundel co-opted by The Who as a symbol of the musical subculture in the 1960s.
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