Sentence examples for the underlying attitudes from inspiring English sources

"We are resolved, as you are, to combat violence involving or directed at young people, to prevent future tragedies and to deal with the underlying attitudes, mistaken beliefs and stereotypes that serve as the basis for these too common incidents.

The contours of the 2012 presidential race were shaped less by the country's changing demographics than by the underlying attitudes and values of American voters, who are always far more complex than they appear to pollsters.

Not until you're on the receiving end of this can you understand how prevalent it is – not just for Muslims but for many victims of prejudice – and how little the official culture of toleration has done to erode the underlying attitudes that cause it.

There's a certain amount of mildly porny writing in the sex scenes – "he was like a boy of 18, invincibly hard" – and despite nods to feminism as the story moves into the 70s and 80s, the underlying attitudes belong to an earlier, more macho era (also a more sexually deprived one: it's hard to think of sex as quite such a sacrament in the age of the hook-up).

Passi says the underlying attitudes that frame the shopping experience for men and women with women more focused on the experience; men on the mission do not necessarily play into sexist stereotypes of women as more emotional and weaker.

Existing literature on wife-beating in sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, has focused extensively on its actual prevalence and determinants (Diop-Sidibe et al. 2006; Ilika et al. 2002; Koenig et al. 2003; Odujinrin 1993; Okemgbo et al. 2002) and less on the underlying attitudes towards wife-beating.

While both of these images take the idea to the ridiculous, in my judgment, I do believe that the underlying attitude behind opposition to the Act is the feeling that to live in the 21st century is to lead a life that is persistently intruded upon, either by government or business or technology or, perhaps worse, some inchoate force we can't yet describe or define.

Our experience suggests that both the skill and the underlying attitude informing its application must be addressed, and is best done so longitudinally and reiteratively using different forms of feedback delivery.

However, Prof Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the forces underlying attitudes towards climate change, disputed the idea that educating the public about the broad scientific agreement on the causes of climate change would have an effect on public opinion - or on the political conditions for climate action.

The beliefs underlying attitudes that were most strongly connected to intentions were with 'keep teeth healthy'preventent future problems' and 'have good oral health'.

[PN2, practice 6] This illustrates the importance of underlying attitudes to teamwork in mediating the impacts of funding structures on nurse roles.