Sentence examples for dominant expectations from inspiring English sources

Dressing as a witch helps him find strength in the spiritual side of witchcraft which he says includes spells, celebrating eight annual equinoxes, and devising his own witchcraft tradition and in challenging dominant expectations of gender.

Similarly, men's pressures arising from failure to meet dominant expectations trigger a crisis that drives risk-taking and poor health behaviour [ 25, 26].

He is right, but a dominant expectation remains that the government will guard and protect every public and private entity all the time.

The dominant expectation on them is that through marriage, they become sexually available to their husbands and bear children, preferably sons, within a stable marital union (15).

In the 19th century this notion of verse for verse's sake subverted the dominant utilitarian expectations of poetry.

In industrialized countries especially, where changes occur more rapidly than in agrarian societies, a generation born 65 years ago may find that the dominant mores, expectations, definitions of the quality of life, and roles of older people have changed considerably by the time it reaches old age.

These meanings were associated with a combination of traditional and non-traditional norms that generally benefit men who behave according to culturally dominant role expectations.

Either these whites are all "bad" or there is something about the dominant and shared expectations associated with being a white person that binds ideologically diverse whites to these types of actions and interpretations.

The most dominant model posits that expectations being met - that is, minimising the mismatch between prior expectations and the actual result - is the most important determinant [ 4, 5].

We compared AFLP allele frequencies in both crosses against Mendelian expectations for dominant alleles, given parent genotypes.

Contrary to expectations, large-dominant trees with the highest rates of growth seem to be the most severely affected by reductions in radial growth.