Popular Mobilization Units, Shiite militias fighting alongside government forces, according to the report, operate "outside of government control and perpetuated abuses against civilians, including killings, abductions and destruction of property".
No doubt many prior calls to animal control authorities were frequently motivated by a belief--long perpetuated by the sheltering industry--that homeless cats were better off dead and that the "responsible" thing to do was to report such animals to those tasked with rounding them up: the local pound.
At local and regional levels, the traditional modes and personnel of government were perpetuated in ad hoc fashion in the earliest Ming years, but, as the new empire became consolidated and stabilized, highly refined control structures were imposed that in theory and probably also in reality eventually subjugated all Chinese to the throne to an unprecedented and totalitarian degree.
The memory of this era lingers still, perpetuated in stone.
The idea that suicides occur more frequently during the holiday season is a long perpetuated myth.
That's an insulting presumption further perpetuated by both Deters and Mayor John Cranley.
"The Sopranos" upset some Italian-American organizations, which complained that the show perpetuated unfair stereotypes.
Two big companies withdrew their advertising, supporting critics' claims that the show perpetuated negative stereotypes.
"As should be clear to all," he added, "without women, culture is mostly not perpetuated".
That was only one of several lies Brando perpetuated in "Lying for a Living".
The box's depiction of a leprechaun, he proclaimed, perpetuated "offensive" stereotypes about Irish-Americans.
