Sentence examples for reinforcing perceptions from inspiring English sources

But, Mr. Ratner said, Mr. Hagel's efforts are "arguably at the cost of reinforcing perceptions in the region that the rebalancing policy is primarily a military endeavor".

The video, which shows the students sipping liquor, tending to a pet jaguar and feigning fatigue with so many females pursuing them, went viral – reinforcing perceptions of privilege, power and impunity enjoyed the Mexican elites, along with the kind of graduates emerging from Legionaries' academies.

Alcohol use was typically negotiated with partners around responsibilities, or took place after commitments were fulfilled; again reinforcing perceptions that such alcohol use was controlled and acceptable.

Ultimately, this approach could profoundly influence operational choices about type of interventions and approaches to targeting beneficiaries because of expected state building benefits, potentially reinforcing perceptions of health as partisan to or supporting parties in power.

One critic said it was shameful, a missed opportunity that reinforced perceptions of 5 Live as "Radio Bloke".

That would only increase their isolation from ordinary Iraqis and reinforce perceptions of them as foreign occupiers.

Mr. Reagan's Pentagon purchases, for example, unleashed pent-up anger over wasteful defense spending, while ketchup-as-a-vegetable reinforced perceptions of him as uncaring toward the poor.

The turnover in Ms. Moskowitz's staff has also served to reinforce perceptions around City Hall that she can be hard to work with.

It also reinforced perceptions, once again, that Africa can't look after itself, that it requires external intervention to solve our problems.

In addition, the failure of successive U.S. presidents to engage seriously on the issue of Israeli-Palestinian peace has reinforced perceptions of Washington's irrelevance.

But the episode reinforces perceptions of church leaders as rigid, dogmatic, out of touch — and very suspicious of independent-minded American nuns.