Sentence examples for reinforce status from inspiring English sources

This makes sense since ritualized affiliative behaviors are thought to strengthen bonds, while agonistic behaviors serve to reinforce status relationships.

Perks and rigid management hierarchies tend to go together; perks are designed in part to reinforce status divisions, and rigid hierarchies do not lend themselves to intelligent decision-making, since they isolate executives from the rest of the company.

Disasters have the counterintuitive tendency to reinforce the status quo.

Ralph Nader argued that regulation tended to reinforce the status quo, rewarding companies that were already connected.

Almost no art had been more assiduously enlisted to reinforce that status quo than Grandma Moses'.

"We wanted to reinforce our status as a true lifestyle destination," she said.

Too often these boards endorse decisions that merely reinforce the status quo.

Traditional fairytales were stories told to reflect – and reinforce – the status quo at the time they were written.

Analysts said that Ford's debt initiatives, and an earlier agreement it secured with the United Automobile Workers union, reinforce its status as the healthiest of Detroit's automakers.

As in all systems of power, most of those at the top – the permanents – reinforce the status quo by justifying and excusing the functioning of the system.

America's philanthropic foundations have virtually abandoned the field of serious inquiry in favor of supporting will-o'-the-wisp fads that ultimately only reinforce the status quo.