Sentence examples for Entrenched norm from inspiring English sources

Our research in Sudan has shown that cutting is not necessarily a pervasive and deeply entrenched norm.

It is proposed that unless planners challenge the often unquestioned liberal norms of planning, entrenched norms will continue to obscure alternative possibilities.

In our torture prevention project, we drew on literature from public health and organizational change theory and practice to think through and try out other ways of shifting entrenched norms, behaviors and systems.

Is the consciousness worm at last starting to turn, with an acceptance of the idea of human recycling beginning to challenge entrenched norms of human apartness represented by the concrete slab?

Lucie Faucherre at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), agrees that the MDGs did not adequately target the origins of gender equality: "An unequivocal lesson from the MDGs experience is that tackling entrenched norms and practices is the business of development.

Indisputable facts that reflect entrenched norms, yet allude to them at your own peril.

The act of eschewing new knowledge because it contradicts entrenched norms is often called a 'Semmelweis reflex'.

(M itanin group interview, Durgkondal ) In Manendragarh, deeply entrenched norms of gender inequity meant that women were frequently subjected to various forms of violence, including physical violence, sexual/physical abuse, the withholding of food and verbal abuse.

It doesn't require that you confront socially entrenched norms and practices.

When the Palestinian Authority took over with its meager budget, it faced the fruits of the Palestine Liberation Organization campaign, the intifada years and entrenched norms: a population with one of the highest fertility rates in the world.

In addition, some participant reflections revealed aspects of entrenched norms and resistance to the programme.