Such sentiments reinforced existing perceptions that Scots law bore the stamp of entrenched feudalism and authoritarian heavyhandedness.
Although many of his observations were sound, he also reinforced existing myths about honeybees, which were then passed down to later generations, acquiring the status of authority.
But those practices merely reinforced existing barriers, and for vast numbers of people the collision of love, choice, and money was a bewildering new problem.
Modern mythological fiction also often fails to convey that the classical stories explicitly reinforced existing social hierarchies, a kind that are unpalatable today.
Historians have also pointed to its unintended effects in differentiating the secondary-education curriculum in ways that often reinforced existing class- and race-based inequalities.
A new analysis of the intakes of all schools suggests that, far from widening access for poorer children, the changes that May and Greening must contemplate accelerating have reinforced existing patterns of social segregation and in some cases exacerbated them.
