perpetuate
Segregation at school allows the perpetuation of myths and misunderstanding about other cultures.
His election would represent a perpetuation of the current administration.
While there was some perpetuation of stereotypes, the newspapers handled the debate reasonably.

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Examples of perpetuation

perpetuation
Following this phase, perpetuation occurs - a phase in which the differentiated phenotype of the cell is amplified by mediators via autocrine signals.
In this way, they acquired their status as groups that most benefited from the perpetuation of the system while negotiating increasingly favorable terms for themselves.
For what happens within civil society organisations is not the empowerment of the marginalised, but the perpetuation of their disempowerment.
However, there is little in our findings to indicate the perpetuation of sharper political divisions.
It had two main goals : to inscribe the brotherhood's marks on the land of the founder's forebears and to ensure the perpetuation of its legacy.
The paper concludes with a series of troubling questions about the perpetuation and depth of ageism in society and culture.
Identification of the potential harmful consequences of depression also may inform intervention efforts designed to prevent the perpetuation and exacerbation of childhood-onset disorders through adulthood.
At all times, however, participation should be above the threshold participation rate for perpetuation of cooperation.
Satisficing is not ab initio, but the perpetuation of tried-and-tested rules of thumb.
The present study does not imply that high participation rate shown by a community makes a case for its perpetuation.
We believe that the time is ripe for investigating the contribution that cultural contexts can make to the ontogenesis and perpetuation of resilient outcomes.
Surely these young couples had the least to gain by the perpetuation of bridewealth marriage.
Necessarily, physical force remained the final sanction for the maintenance and perpetuation of imperial rule.
An anger perception bias could contribute to the perpetuation of the maladaptive emotion-cognition-behavior cycle.
First, the uncritical acceptance and perpetuation of conventional analyses can lead to results which, while theoretically elegant, have little or no bearing on linguistic reality.
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