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.

For over two decades, most of these institutions have purposely tried to escape from a religious conformity that Catholic educators believed was stifling intellectual excellence.

The Constitution forbids the State to exact religious conformity from a student as the price of attending her own high school graduation.

In the Texas case, the fact that pregame prayers are led by students rather than clergy does not lessen the pressure for religious conformity.

It is not "the cult" of Mormonism that demands religious conformity.

The long-term effect of the Antinomian controversy was that it committed Massachusetts to a policy of strict religious conformity.

Absolute monarchy, of course, was necessary to that end; as was religious conformity.

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

Drug trafficking and lawlessness are targeted, and religious conformity is enforced.