How To Use Perpetuate In A Sentence

His appeal may lie in the disparity between the image projected in his interviews and the image perpetuated in his records.
The divisions found in and between the diwan, sarishtadar, and mirza categories were often created and perpetuated by the individuals and alliances operating in the political realm, i.e., among the officials and office-holders who were both the instigators and targets of the audits. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
But the economic aims of the MFA guild would be unrealizable without its social aims, which perpetuate solidarity. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
It perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors eating, brandy drinking supporter when, in fact, our supporters are highly intelligent with a keen understanding of the game.
Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.

How long can we sustain the environmental and social degradation that consumer culture perpetuates?
This is one of those projects that touch's what we call our legislative mandate: Preserve Protect and Perpetuate as well as provide outdoor recreation activities," Anderson said. The Seattle Times
Greek name perpetuated by the people and referring to this covering of hoary pines -- a name which the cartographers, arbitrary and ignorant as they often are, have unconsciously disguised. Old Calabria
You are the last woman on earth, and it is your job to perpetuate the human race, whether you like it or not.
While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being.
In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. THE KANAKA SURF
In the 1960s and '70s, many psychiatrists and medical school textbooks perpetuated the myth of the' schizophrenogenic mother, 'in which a mother's personality was viewed as the source of Press Releases
We should perpetuate the rare species.
Mr. Arcangel seems guided by a somewhat callow faith in the avant-garde, striving to perpetuate its tradition, dating from Duchamp, of laying claim to new areas of nonart for art's sake. NYT > Home Page
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
I have argued that constructing theodicies to answer questions about ‘God and evil’ perpetuates old evils and creates new evils.
The Bill perpetuates all the anomalies, unfairness, regional variations and bureaucracy that made the poll tax unpopular.
We should perpetuate the rare species.
Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
Is it therefore a tradition that should be perpetuated indefinitely, or should it be abandoned?
It is a practice which perpetuates sexism, sex discrimination and sexual violence.
Seems that despite the popular propaganda perpetuated by the corporate media that the academy is a bastion for 'tenured radicals' is nowhere near the reality. La Profesora Abstraida
Its always nice to read well meaning NONSENSE such as that posted above by “Blue Jeans Baby » Comfortable Castle – Improving your home » Blog Archive” as they perpetuate the FALSE MYTH that fiberglass is carcinogenic. RECYCLED BLUE JEAN INSULATION by Bonded Logic | Inhabitat
For in societies greatly marked by class prerogatives, style itself tends to become a competitive implement, as a privileged group may cultivate style to advertise its privileges and perpetuate them.
They decided to perpetuate the memory of their leader by erecting a statue.
The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
I'm not personally opposed to the use of the term assisted suicide (for the medical practice as it is legalized and strictly regulated in Washington and Oregon) but I do contest the way that Smith and others use it: to perpetuate the terminal suffering of others. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
It was on this sleepy island that the Dutch settled in 1609 and built a fort to perpetuate their memory.
Accordingly, The Prince seems to justify a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power.
Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
Renaissance collectors sought not only to depict humanists as heirs of the classical past, but also to ensure that portraits perpetuated the memory of famous figures.
Many of these songs are meant to be played at dances or parties, where you could reasonably expect people to be in the middle of a contradance; like today's trance and electronic musics, most fiddle tunes have few or no lyrics, and a catchy melody that self perpetuates. Phawker
These measures will perpetuate the hostility between the two groups.
A crime wave has struck the city, perpetuated by a gang of three dimwitted crooks.
Trying to perpetuate cultural continuity's an important thing, and that's part of what education is for.
Recognizing the diverse nature of Hispanic families, the purpose of this article was not to perpetuate the myth of sameness or ethnic homogeneity.
To the Griqua went the consolation of having their name perpetuated in one of the richest portions of the earth's surface, which once they had called their own. Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
To challenge either is to perpetuate an irresolvable debate, a heated exchange of ideas that no one ever wins, which leaves everyone with bad feelings.
Too many cruel people who survived to perpetuate their cruelty. EDEN BURNING
Actually, deceiving people to perpetuate profiteering is very rightwing. Think Progress » Steve King Blows Up, Physically Grabs TP Blogger When Asked About His Justification Of IRS Attack
The confidence bestowed by his patron boosted his self-assurance and perpetuated his interest in becoming a professional sculptor.
Their memory was perpetuated in later centuries by antiquarians such as Joseph Strutt, whose Sports and Pastimes of England was published in 1801.
Too many cruel people who survived to perpetuate their cruelty. EDEN BURNING
However, many accountability systems tend to solidify and perpetuate these differences rather than facilitate their elimination.
It appears, from this passage, that the imposition of hands was a ceremony used in consecrating persons to holy offices in the ancient, as, from the example of our Lord and His apostles, it has been perpetuated in the Christian Church. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Mark sets out to discover whether the ‘golden age’ truly existed or is a smug myth perpetuated by nostalgics and the artistic and political enemies of television today.
Cindy and Casey together make up what is termed a folie a deaux, or "madness of two," in which two people share and perpetuate a psychosis. SplicedFeed
I don't agree that we should manipulate data, and present only bits of broader data, to perpetuate a political agenda using conjecture and not science.
The effigies of antiquity were created to perpetuate the memory of the deceased as he or she looked while alive.
This animal, from the excellence of its flesh, would be appropriate to our own country; and as there is also a splendid esculent frog nearly as large as a chicken, it would no doubt tend to perpetuate the present alliance if we made a gift of that to France. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
The aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design.
As a result, an unequal distribution of power long has been perpetuated in the nurse-physician relationship.
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
Personally, I have always preferred the term heterosexist for things like the rape-is-not-about-sex position, because its relationship to the term sexism reflects its investment in male dominance, while heterocentric has always seemed more appropriate for things like the point about battering because it is talking more about a point of view rather than a desire to perpetuate male dominant ideology. Link Farm and Open Thread #11
So that leaves the smaller venues and the smaller shows, all looking to perpetuate the idea that MMA is "hot" at the professional level and there is a pot of gold that comes with setting up a ring or a cage and throwing fighters in there. Joe Favorito: UFC Deserves Its Fight in New York Now
Created over 30 years ago to perpetuate the traditional progression of training the California Vaquero Bridle Horse, the futurity has a special mystique.
I sent you to my ever perpetuated, to the furthest.
My fear is that we are setting ourselves up for a vicious circle where family breakdown is perpetuated by the reinforcement and extension of behaviours which make it all the more likely.
As this cycle perpetuates itself in round after round of retaliation, and as anger and hatred are nourished, children are beginning to forget that life was ever any different.
The kind of person who perpetuates this cycle is the kind of person who considers themselves a film buff when their experience is mostly limited to eighties action movies, or a big reader despite the fact that they never read anything but epic fantasy and pulp sci-fi. Bang Bang, Bang Bang
The divisions found in and between the diwan, sarishtadar, and mirza categories were often created and perpetuated by the individuals and alliances operating in the political realm, i.e., among the officials and office-holders who were both the instigators and targets of the audits. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
“Chicks with Dicks,” on a site that perpetuates fat hatred, is what is known as a twofer; double the ignorance and hate for your pleasure. Archive 2009-10-01
The beauty of these jaded but heliotropic flowers was entirely self-generated and self-perpetuated. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
You sidewise reference to Behe there perpetuates a misconstrual of his testimony in Dover, by the way. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
Halifax Bay (immediately to the north of Cleveland Bay) perpetuates the title; “Mount” The Confessions of a Beachcomber
This morning's galoshes special is the type of wet and puddly cloud juice that we let our visitors, tourists and Californians think we must deal with day by day by day, if only to perpetuate rainy city myth, a sneaky move aimed at preventing more peeps from moving to our town and taking our already limited street parking spaces. Seattle Bon Vivant:
This practice is perpetuated by women, but justified in gendered terms.
A glance at the fixture list, and you wonder if the cycle is about to perpetuate itself afresh.
The combined effects of disenfranchisement laws, inmate population trends and economic realities perpetuate a racial divide in society.
Somewhere along the line the truth had been buried, a statistical error made and a lie perpetuated.
Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.
They seem to have consisted of scenical representations of the philosophy and religion of those times, which had previously been painted in hieroglyphic figures to perpetuate them before the discovery of letters; and are well explained in Dr. Warburton's divine legation of Moses; who believes with great probability, that Canto I
The workload component does little more than codify existing practices in most schools and will simply perpetuate current conditions.
They decided to perpetuate the memory of their leader by erecting a statue.
My question for Rosanne is what should we be doing to remember him, to perpetuate his memory?
&c. How errors relative to Eastern matters are perpetuated is illustrated by the fact that I have seen these lines quoted in some modern philosophical work as descriptive of the hell in which the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
To think that sharing of wealth is a solution to the economic imbalances perpetuates underdevelopment of the poor's capabilities and potential to unchain themselves out of poverty.
Women with bulimia may also be ignorant of how their behaviour perpetuates their symptoms, creating a vicious cycle which traps them.
Removing responsibility from victims is not a kindness; it is patronizing and perpetuates the problem.
However, I don't buy off on the notion perpetuated by the Germans that German beer is better because its German and is brewed in strict accordance with the Reinheitsgebot. America v Germany
And yet in a sense, music is a love-food -- in the sense I mean, that there is love-nourishment in tubes of paint, which can perpetuate your beauty, my fair readeress; or in ink-bottles all ebon with Portuguese sonnets and erotic rondeaux; or in tubs of plaster of Paris, or in bargain-counterfuls of dress goods to add the last word to a woman's beauty. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
We believe that the weakness of early Pan-Africanism, Negritude and some forms of modern Afrocentrism are that they perpetuate some colonial patterns of thought in an anticolonial ideology.
Does the meat industry perpetuate world hunger and deforestation, and if so are these inevitable industry by-products?
The rhetoric serves to perpetuate the myth that perpetrators have no control over their behaviour when they are drunk.
Too often, federal and state government agencies operate on their own, territoriality is perpetuated and the agencies don't connect the dots between one another. Susan Buchanan: Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion
The problem is that Team Obama and Team Reid are so hung up on playing 11-D chess and putting the Rs in checkmate via a filibuster proof majority that they’ve simply perpetuated the meme that it takes 60 votes to get something done in the Senate. Matthew Yglesias » What if Bernanke Isn’t Reconfirmed
Regrettably, politicians are using the misguided comparisons with Lehman Brothers as an excuse to ignore and perpetuate Europe's real problem: an unhealthy, undercapitalised banking system and a monetary union based on the premise that political leaders' commitment alone could make economic and democratic realities disappear. Greece is no Lehman Brothers | Raoul Rapurel
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate ...
It was not, perhaps, mission work in the ordinary sense any more than much of Dr. Livingstone's work was missionary work, but it was an effort to break down the conditions that perpetuated wrong and dispeace, and to introduce the forces of righteousness and goodwill. Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
There is no house to which one would return, having left it, though it were the hogshead out of which one had moved into a kilderkin; for those associations whose perishing leaves us free, and preserves to us what little youth we have, were otherwise perpetuated to our burden and bondage. Suburban Sketches
Looking at the messages in the media that perpetuate rape myths and even make us very rape tolerant is crucial to primary prevention of this type of violence (e.g., take pornography - both the "soft core" and the "gonzo" - how pornography in general has become so much more mainstream, just as the more violent and hateful versions have become more extreme). thank you for the good work you do! goedel NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS
As the United States staggers past the third anniversary of its misadventure in Iraq, the dagger is already poised, the myth is already being perpetuated. July 2006
He pledged to perpetuate the criminal bantustan system, further to balkanise our country and to continue the land dispossession of the African majority, which is confined to a little more than ten percent of ANC Today
It's not just because a certain pool of skilled practitioners must be sustained to perpetuate our craft.
However, he perpetuates a common misconception that the battle has been nature versus nurture.
The separation of children at eleven was a classification system that perpetuated social class division; it was also an educational typology.
Does this mean that active learning is, as Mattson characterizes it, an idealistic sham perpetuated by Pollyannaish administrators and workshop facilitators?
Unfortunately, the successful self-assertion of women in such a kinship system is at the expense of younger women, which helps perpetuate the cycle of female subordination.
Several dominant males could impregnate all the women and perpetuate the tribe.
Does the meat industry perpetuate world hunger and deforestation, and if so are these inevitable industry by-products?
Iraq War opponents who resent Obama for initialing opposing the war while a state senator, and then repeatedly voting to perpetuate the war when he had the opportunity to meaningfully oppose the war as a US senator, and see his foreign policy as naive to the point of being dangerous. Edwards And Obama Camps Both Pushing "Hillary-Is-Polarizing" Line
In part because Greenpeace fabricates and then perpetuates stories claiming that the seafood we love most is going extinct. Greenpeace Vs. the Tuna Sandwich
There are indeed problems in graphic design education, and one of them is the lack of emphasis on basic writing and research skills, but the old canard about illiterate designers simply perpetuates an incorrect stereotype.
Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fountain, of West Yorkshire Police, said it was important to realise receiving stolen goods perpetuated the criminal market.
Frances said this on February 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm | Reply that sedum, black jack, is awesome. next visit to faire garden will be an opportunity to perpetuate my sedum cleptomania. hope that’s okay. brokenbeat said this on February 3, 2008 at 5:33 pm | Reply brokenbeat…as long as you limit your take to no more than one tenth of the total plant! Color in the Garden-GBDW Part Two « Fairegarden
This hesitancy only perpetuates the problem: The longer authorities delay the process, the more engrained behemoth financial institutions become; the more engrained they become, the less extricable they are. Richard Fisher, Top Fed Official: Too Big To Fail Lives On, Only Way Out Is To Shrink Megabanks
Therefore it follows that a massive injustice is being perpetuated on thousands of children who get crappy instruction in crappy schools and never get a decent chance to go to college, even though if you had stuck them in a top-flight public school from 1st grade they'd definitely be Ivy League material. Anya Kamenetz: DIY U, Educational Access, and the New Elitism
I believe the term fascist used as a suffix to a religion came from the extreme wrong wing talk radio's anus, so I do not use the term, as it only serves to perpetuate their anti personnel propagandistic agenda. by The First Casualty of War is the Truth
The token's resulting isolation and 'differentness' leads her to be excluded from informal gatherings and further perpetuates the maintenance of the token as a minority group. Dr. Sasha Galbraith: Missing Women: The Bermuda Triangle in the C-Suite
I found Bellamy's notions of how society could so easily be remade and then perpetuated in its idealized form more than a little soft-headed (says she, full of twenty-first-century cynicism).
This type of humor has been perpetuated and modified in the literature to elaborate the self-directed humor of those who have transitioned from one mode of existence to another.
The aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design.
Malaria perpetuates in 39 major anopheline species, including some that breed in water contained in footprints, and others in the axils of pineapple-like plants, in eddies at the margins of mountain streams, and in placid ponds.
But on the media the idea perpetuated is that it's hard to be elected as a Senator because sometimes you are forced to make votes you don't want to make. Why Obama?
Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
The old author dreamed that the heroes of the Trojan War were changed by Zeus into the warriors of the mimic strife in order that such renowned exploits should be perpetuated among men forever: rather must we reverse the dream, and apotheosize the powers of the board, that they may appear in the sieges, heroisms, and victories of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
Instead, the film-makers create an ever-expanding universe of accidental characters and sub-plot lines that perpetuate a sense of futility and detachment.
The representations of Jahangir, the Great Mogul, by English travellers, merchants, and diplomats who visited and resided in India in the early seventeenth century largely perpetuate this binary.
It fittingly perpetuates his memory as one who lived an unassuming honourable life and bequeathed the whole of his residuary estate to charity.
And perhaps it could also examine how arachnophobia is perpetuated by people irresponsibly depicting spiders as terrifying monsters. Times, Sunday Times
Slug's reputation, which Atmosphere's media coverage has eagerly perpetuated, is one of personal drama and pathos. Interview: Slug of Atmosphere (Music (For Robots))
Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
We have become conditioned into being, behaving, reacting to any situation in a certain way, and we perpetuate this conditioning by the way we think.
The aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design.
The separation of children at eleven was a classification system that perpetuated social class division; it was also an educational typology.
The Carriage Office continues to license taxis and hackneys in the city and the Assay Office, which hallmarks genuine silver artifacts, also perpetuates a centuries old tradition.
The idea that all furries are doing something taboo was perpetuated in news media reports last fall.
Merciful Lord, deliver the world from people who claim your name misuse Your word to perpetuate evil. Huck: We Need To Amend The Constitution, Bring It In Line With God
But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language. In praise of … Kate Bush | Editorial
The George circle was close and intimate and his disciples vowed to perpetuate his memory by remaining faithful to his precepts of service, heroic values and fidelity to the ideal of the true Germany.
Like them, they tend to perpetuate their structure and to breed; they too can fuse, recombine, segregate their content; indeed they too can evolve, and in this evolution selection must surely play an important role. Jason Silva: Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere
His handlers know this, they've always known, which is why he's fighting a cruiser this time out, a move without pride or dignity, a lame effort to perpetuate the myth while angling for a big pay day.
This image is a myth perpetuated by the media.
These arrangements entrenched a distinctive land-owning pattern among the peasantry and perpetuated the peasantry's distance from other social estates.
In these ways he created and perpetuated a counter discourse to the Shaftesburyian "civic humanism" or academicism, of which so much has been made of late by art historians. Lenin's Paintings
To carry on or perpetuate a bitter quarrel or state of enmity.
MacSwan's basic quarrel is with the widely discredited notion of semilingualism that, he argues, is perpetuated in Cummins' theories.
From his Taipei retreat, Chiang Kai-shek continued his rearguard fight in that civil war, leading China to perpetuate the hostilities which continue to this day.
He thinks the environmentalists should correct the misperceptions they have perpetuated.
Such parenting behavior has lasting effects; parents who parent poorly tend to have been parented poorly themselves, and without intervention, the cycle of substance use and poor parenting perpetuates itself.
It aims to raise awareness of the business potential created by this new commercial vista, and to combat some of the misconceptions which perpetuate about doing business with eastern Europe.
Those who knock Perry have a standard script: His characters flirt with entrenched stereotypes of African Americans; his films seem to perpetuate a kind of class warfare between working class and upwardly mobile, or "bourgie," black people; and his movies reflect a general lack of cinematic artistry. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past.
Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
Reform everywhere was initiated from above; Enlightenment sovereigns perpetuated the paternalism of the previous century's absolutist princes.
The belief that competition and character are in conflict is a myth perpetuated by people who prefer shortcuts over hard work. Lisa Earle McLeod: Why Instilling Character Isn't In Conflict With Encouraging Competition
However their legacy was to revolutionise modern warfare and to perpetuate the work of their greatest exponent in the armies of the Allied victors.
That ilk aren't left, right or middle and they couldn't care less because they're without a moral compass, relying instead on the guidance of a cash dowser that they whittle up for themselves under the tutelage of sc**bags like Goldschmidt and others who perpetuate the cycle of pro abusus publico. Good morning, sycophants (Jack Bog's Blog)
In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-appareled, shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past.
This is how this type of misinformation spreads throughout the Air Force and infects every level with a plague of bad practices that are perpetuated internally.
The state ostensibly dominated the society, but it was in fact the landed aristocratic families that kept the state at bay and perpetuated local power for centuries.
They decided to perpetuate the memory of their leader by erecting a statue.
Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life.
As late as February 1992, Andreotti and Craxi expected to form a new government that would halt further investigations into political crime and perpetuate their joint condominium. Italy's Dirty Linen
It's all over and the way you make your exit is important – you can either jump on the 'unity' train – becuase the majority of Americans have made it clear that's what we want – or you can live longer in the state of denial, hoping to perpetuate divisiveness and conflict .... Clinton calls for debate in Oregon
We can neither perpetuate excessive levels of support, nor penalise the most efficient producers.
For example, some practices are perpetuated as the members of a group are severally replaced.
His breeding kennels have insured that this breed will be perpetuated.
The hand that wrote them is in the dust, but the sentiments they embody and the wish they breathe are imperishable and will be perpetuated in the enduring monument for which this solid resting-place is preparing.
This hardly bodes well for those seeking to perpetuate the continuation of the dollar reserve system in its current form.
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. Religio Medici
Perhaps the series writers are trying to highlight the inequities perpetuated by racism?
Ironically, this impetus towards individualisation has involved creating discrete and mutually-exclusive learner ‘types’, a development that is, in turn, reflected in the discourse that perpetuates ethnic and cultural stereotyping – of the kind: “Asians are collectivist (as opposed to individualist)” – that is to say, an obsessive concern for categorisation as a basis for pedagogy. L is for Learning Styles « An A-Z of ELT
The genius of the paterfamilias was honored in familial worship as a household god and was thought to perpetuate a family through many generations.
Both groups continue to perpetuate the old and outworn doctrines of party politics.
C1 inhibitor maintains the natural regulation of the contact, complement, and fibrinolytic systems, that when left unrestricted, can initiate or perpetuate an attack by consuming the already low levels of endogenous C1 ViroPharma Provides 2011 Outlook - Yahoo! Finance
The law writes solipsistically, talking only to and for himself, so as to perpetuate his own image, his self-definition, his existence.
Apparently," Woods and the Wisconsin geographer Joseph M. McCann argued in a presentation last summer, "at some threshold level ... dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate — even regenerate itself — thus behaving more like a living 'super'-organism than an inert material. 1491
Elsewhere, the faculty engaged in a few demonstrations of their own, a favorite being the manipulation of the orbicularis oris muscle to demonstrate how human beings, from infancy through senectitude, perpetuate the universal sign of affection. Body of Knowledge
I've often wondered if you, Frank Bruni, Kit Seeyle and others, (I won't even mention Judy Miller, whom you so memorably shivved once it was safe to do so) who did so much to inaugurate and perpetuate the glorious Bush years, gather to exult in your accomplishment. Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair
It's all very well for him to come swanning up here from London and perpetuate the image but we have to pick up the pieces.
In the absence of a professional police force, the employment of soldiers in public order duties perpetuated their traditional reputation as tools of tyranny.
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
New Testament pastors are called ‘ministers of the Spirit’ because the Holy Spirit plants and perpetuates God's life in his saints through their public and private ministrations.
venality," had quite as much to do on the part of those who wished to perpetuate the government of disloyalty, proscription, and persecution as on the part of those who desired to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," and to place the Government of Massachusetts, like that of the other New England Colonies, upon the broad foundation of equal and general franchise and religious liberty. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
It was by such kind of practices that the decemvirs, who by the laws of their institution were to be elected annually, got their term extended to another year, and in that interval, by preventing the assembling of the comitia, they endeavoured to perpetuate their power. The Social Contract
Race is a proxy for class (today) because of the choices made by large segments of racial minority groups to engage in behaviors that hurts themselves and perpetuates their poverty. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
They needed to encrypt the meaning in others’ thoughts and be assured their ideas would be perpetuated.
It overturns the national balance of parties, perpetuates a pernicious sectionalism, and deprives the South of that bipartizan rivalry which keeps open the currents of political life. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization
In her piece she generally laments culturally perpetuated generalizations.
No, she reassured herself, there's nothing in God's law or the emperor's that requires me to perpetuate a sham marriage, an unstoppered vessel from which the perfume has evaporated.
Meanwhile, crises continue to haunt their precarious families, and recurring small loans further perpetuate their servitude.
Miller's history unfortunately perpetuates rather than problematizes such narratives.
Since a powerful influence on a professional's practice is the early socialisation by other professionals in the workplace, it is clear that ethically unsound practices can easily be perpetuated.
They agree with him in the pacific principles which he has avowed, and look forward to a continued career of useful services, in which the resources of that great empire will be more than ever developed under his control, and the power of the British name perpetuated by a wise, an upright, and a fearless Administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
It just perpetuates the stigma that welfare recipients are lazy bludgers who need to be forced into work.
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate ...
Wu Xun, it was argued, had in his slavish dependence on the feudal upper classes helped to perpetuate the old system and had actually helped to propagate its ideology among his fellow peasants.
Everything you advocate is designed solely to perpetuate wage stagnation. Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
Why, they wonder, does the one perpetuate low-performance patterns, while the other improves the chances for organizational success?
From this was perpetuated the dogma that the private sector would always be more efficient than the public.
Comics and books for children tend to perpetuate the myth that 'boys don't cry'.
A right to self-determination exercised in a way that actually perpetuates welfare dependency, rather than independent self-sufficiency, will eventually come to be seen as unsupportable by the vast majority of citizens.
This is how this type of misinformation spreads throughout the Air Force and infects every level with a plague of bad practices that are perpetuated internally.
Lad culture has done nothing more than perpetuate petty hatred between the sexes.
President Obama has been making great pains to try to change our image before the world, one that he believes George W. Bush perpetuated and that has led to our virtual "blackball" by many nations. Latest Articles

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