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Critics will say NGOs aren't simply gallantly stepping into the breach, rather they actually seek to perpetuate their power in crises like this.
However, many accountability systems tend to solidify and perpetuate these differences rather than facilitate their elimination.
The law writes solipsistically, talking only to and for himself, so as to perpetuate his own image, his self-definition, his existence.
It appears that in utero exposure to nicotine may help to perpetuate a cycle across generations that links addiction and behavioral problems.
Does the meat industry perpetuate world hunger and deforestation, and if so are these inevitable industry by-products?
Meanwhile, crises continue to haunt their precarious families, and recurring small loans further perpetuate their servitude.
The rhetoric serves to perpetuate the myth that perpetrators have no control over their behaviour when they are drunk.
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.
The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story.
The workload component does little more than codify existing practices in most schools and will simply perpetuate current conditions.
It was on this sleepy island that the Dutch settled in 1609 and built a fort to perpetuate their memory.
The people profiteering off of the growth perpetuate the problem and have a human obligation to correct the problems.
It assumes that changes are needed in the economic systems and structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice.
Some of those monuments are almost a century old and were erected to perpetuate a memory and a spirit dear to surviving family members.
The financial oligarchy wants the war to continue to perpetuate their global wealth.
The fake images that concern us most are those that are created to perpetuate a lie.
The effect of its rate rise will be to perpetuate global economic imbalances.
My question for Rosanne is what should we be doing to remember him, to perpetuate his memory?
Very few recognise the services of such freedom fighters or make efforts to perpetuate their memory.
These systems are as useless today as the bureaucratic institutions that continue to perpetuate and promote their usage.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In practice the rotten borough system, as it was called, tended to perpetuate the ascendency of the landed proprietors.
The Shubert theatres and Carnegie libraries are running a dead heat in an earnest endeavor to perpetuate their respective names.
His attitude, as I drove up, was one which Hunt would have delighted to perpetuate.
Surely we cannot blame him for wishing to perpetuate what he held to be unsurpassable!
The industry as a whole is gradually declining, as overfishing has made it impossible for the natural supply to perpetuate itself.
It operates not to perpetuate the forces which produced it but to modify and redirect them.
You are contributing to perpetuate one of the sorest scourges of our world.
As Pitt had allowed the system of inconvertible paper, the Tories generally applauded and were ready to perpetuate it.
What a sin against God, what a crime against humanity, did these Massachusetts legislators vote to perpetuate!
A jabiru stork saw it from downstream, solemnly squatting on four eggs which eventually would perpetuate the race.
The way which we take to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance is well adapted to keep up this fabular notion.
By what power do the Mormons perpetuate their system of polygamy?
This act and the creation of a dukedom were to perpetuate his name.
I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self.
They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.
As long as you keep that promise, you perpetuate that wrong.
Mr. Arundel was aware of the tradition, and he desired to perpetuate it.
Many of the small streams beyond the mountains thus perpetuate the names of unfortunate trappers that have been murdered on their banks.
He keeps the crooked weathercock in the summerhouse to perpetuate the story of a legend.
In fact, all of us are guilty in permitting the Syrian genocide to perpetuate with all of its barbarity and gruesomeness to this day.
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