Sentence examples for serves to enforce from inspiring English sources

Reputation serves to enforce the social behaviour among the production entities.

Each factor node thus serves to enforce the equality of one ODE at one timeslice and one experiment.

Homosexuality and non-normative masculine performances are therefore silenced and 'othered' and the associated humiliation, so well illustrated here, serves to enforce heteronormativity and heterosexual masculinity (Plummer 2013).

Just as in England, the state served to enforce the dictates of the church.

In reality it served to enforce segregation of native Africans, further disenfranchise them, and control their economic options.

Mostly, it seems, they serve to enforce a strong brand image for the network and the BBC.

The most prominent aspect of Akan religion is an ancestor cult the rites of which serve to enforce tribal unity and morality.

Sanction, in the social sciences, a reaction (or the threat or promise of a reaction) by members of a social group indicating approval or disapproval of a mode of conduct and serving to enforce behavioral standards of the group.

Sanctions, therefore, serve to enforce morality 'the stronger' but are quite clearly secondary to the intrinsic pleasures motivating dutiful action.

State regulators, with oversight from EPA, serve to enforce the Clean Air Act for all polluters within their borders.

For millennia, religion served to enforce harmony within groups but did nothing to stifle war, genocide or the exploitation of other peoples.