Misconceptions, taboos and outright deceit have fostered denial among both officials and the broader population.
Old age fostered self-denial and a strict discipline in Hals, along with a new freedom in his painting.
Discrimination against Muslims in the wake of an atrocity like the Boston bombings is wrong and unhelpful, but so too is a politically correct response, which fosters justification and denial.
One lesson of the months leading up to May's debacle is that Labour must absorb feedback, even unwelcome feedback, and not live in denial, fostering false hope fed by opinion polls.
His story provides hope for those who continue to deal with the rampant race issues, homophobia that results in the abuse of LGBT foster children and the denial of adoptive opportunities for LGBT potential parents, problems in education stemming from emotional stress and frequent relocation, and health hazards that result from neglect and abuse that plague the foster care system.
From a sustainability perspective, Lowe (7) suggests that our cultural background has informed the slow uptake of Australians to use solar energy, while Hamilton (48) believes our cultural character has fostered a state of denial to act on climate change.
State and local limits on registration and voter turnout are not only elements of vote dilution, but can foster an atmosphere of vote denial as well.
It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought and so broadens the mind".
And everything, all of the progress I felt like I'd been making (read: the comfortable, convenient denial I'd been fostering), and all of the days I'd felt fine and normal, came to a screeching halt.
