In what is proving to be a powerful Italian winter 2012 season, there is a sense of reinforcing identity — hence the dramatic gilt trip from Dolce & Gabbana on Sunday and Marni taking a new angle on its signature look.
What this reflects, to a large extent, is the success of the Bahraini regime's strategy to deal with challenges to its legitimacy by promoting and reinforcing identity politics within a system of privileges where certain groups and individuals are favoured over others.
They argue that this might at least help reinforce identity in Taiwan with the name 'China' and curb the demands of some Taiwanese radicals for a change of name to the Republic of Taiwan.
Although all mothers benefit from social support, the developmental stage of adolescence leads to seeking external sources of affirmation as a means to reinforce identity and formulate new roles [ 33, 36].
Christian notions of hospitality to strangers, love for enemies, and sacrifice of one's own freedom for the sake of others are abandoned in the need to reinforce identities shaped by narrowly defined beliefs rooted more in history and prejudice than in Christian love, the Bible, or Christian theology.
In recent years, the Supreme Court has found a surprising vitality in doctrines of states' rights and limitations on the central government authority, reinforcing our identity as a nation of sovereign states.
His new memory book proved to be an invaluable aid not only in stabilizing his still erratic memory but in reinforcing his identity as a writer: I knew I could no longer rely on the "sticking plaster" of memory.
That way, WeWork gets all the benefits of leasing or owning a building — such as reinforcing its identity with exterior signs and controlling its security — but possibly at a lower price, real estate brokers said.
Fifth, new mechanisms have emerged that recognize and reward individual scholarship, reinforcing the identity of entrepreneurship research as a field and attracting new scholars into it.
But much more significantly, in destabilizing the assumption of gender of the author of an image or object, she also destabilizes the assumptions reinforcing gender identity.
Individuals who adopt PrEP may be able to see this behavior as reinforcing an identity as a "preventionist," ie, "the type of person who cares about reducing my risk of HIV infection".
