Sentence examples for lingering attitudes from inspiring English sources

To give a flavor of lingering attitudes in the male-dominated world of auto racing, Boyer quotes racing legend Bobby Unser's comments about the pioneering female driver Janet Guthrie: "I could take a hitchhiker, give him a Corvette from the showroom, and teach him to drive faster than Janet Guthrie".

His three-day tour, beginning in Hanoi on November 16th, caps a series of efforts during his presidency to forge new ties with the country that defeated the most powerful nation on earth.Lingering attitudes towards the war, which killed between 2m and 3m Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans, continue to constrain those efforts mildly in both countries.

Recent polls have suggested that if he were to run, Bush, a former Florida governor, would be weighed down by Americans' lingering attitudes toward his brother, George W. Bush, who left office in January 2009 as one of the least popular presidents in U.S. history.

The Nigerian-born author Chika Unigwe, who is based in Belgium, took to the platform to criticise lingering colonialist attitudes.

The fact that so many of these workers are members of minority groups taps into lingering negative attitudes about immigrant workers and people of color.

However, providers' responses to the five items on the Provider Stigma of Childbearing scale were quite different (see Table 1) and revealed lingering negative attitudes.

These statements expose a lingering consumer attitude toward learning rather than a sense of personal responsibility among the nonparticipants.

I don't know what sort of thing it has on the outcome, except that, if they do think of the family, that puts the whānau through a lot of stress.' (Kaitiaki focus group participant) Such insinuations, even when shown to be unfounded, were perceived to have a lingering impact on staff attitudes.

But conventional attitudes lingered on, as most women still preferred small but real gems (especially that diamond engagement ring) to the bolder fakes.

Staging pre-sale exhibitions is expensive, and snobbish resistance to commercial attitudes lingers at an institution that prides itself on tradition.For their part, French auctioneers can still restrict themselves to "judicial sales"—forced by bankruptcy or death which make up a fifth of the auctioneers' business today and will remain a monopoly.

"But some of those old attitudes are still lingering in some darkened corners of the sex toy business".