perpetuation

Examples of perpetuated

perpetuated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Cultural norms that discourage public discussion are likely to be more difficult to change because they are perpetuated by a variety of institutions.
They have brought lock, stock and barrel into the mythology embroidered and perpetuated by a complex mix of nineteenth-century media and politics.
State support, itself based primarily on the need to maintain monetary incentives, rather than to compensate for inequalities ensures that these differences are perpetuated.
The divisions created in the colonial era and perpetuated in the post-colonial one may indeed be fraying at the edges.
The resulting typhoid ('enteric fever ' or maagkoors) epidemics claimed victims annually and the tenants' ignorance of basic hygiene perpetuated the cycle.
The ' war of independence ' inevitably served to intensify racial hostility, perpetuated as mutual mistrust thereafter since the negotiated settlement did not end the tension.
Women were excluded from inheritance as well as asset formation under the pre-war civil code, and such gender discrimination has been perpetuated.
The policies of the postcolonial government have perpetuated the colonial inheritance of local disempowerment.
But what features of our biology are to be perpetuated, what are the nobler traits of man?
The big question about epigenetic states, of course, is how they are perpetuated through cycles of cell division.
And power, in the final analysis, is what this study is about - how it was granted, how it was perpetuated, and how it was expressed.
It is not matter but the memory of the form that is perpetuated during cell division and genetic transmission, he insisted.
Those properties are differentially perpetuated in the population maintained by the current selection contingency.
The antagonisms have been crystallised and a pattern entrenching conflict between the two groups has been perpetuated.
This has not only hindered a wider theoretical understanding of the problem, but has also perpetuated ineffective health promotion practice in this area.
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