Sentences with phrase «remained pervasive»

Despite a long campaign to rein in rampant off - balance sheet borrowing by cash - strapped regional authorities, the practice remains pervasive.

Driscoll's comments rightfully drew some fire and I believe he eventually apologized, but I fear that the sentiment behind these remarks — that the Bible holds women to a certain standard of beauty that must be maintained throughout all seasons of life — remains pervasive within certain sectors of the conservative evangelical community.

On the eve of what will most certainly be a «new,» multiracial South Africa, religion remains a pervasive and powerful social influence.

Oh, yes, his body can be removed from the face of this earth, but his ideology will remain pervasive.

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

The tobacco industry remains a pervasive and malignant influence in our society.

SKIN COLOR AND WEALTH REMAIN PERVASIVE FAULT LINES IN U.S. society, as best proved by the persistence of economically and racially segregated communities.

While disproportionate discipline of students with disabilities remains a pervasive problem in all public schools, the charter sector in particular should hold itself to a higher standard and not recreate the problems that have disillusioned so many parents of students with disabilities about public schools» commitment to their student's success.»

As discussed at the opening of Chapter 3, the «balance as bias» study by Boykoff and Boykoff examining coverage through 2002 was famously featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and remains widely referenced today when bloggers such as Joe Romm assert that false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coverage.

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And it remains the web's most pervasive search tool, accounting for 97 % of the mobile search engine market and 79 % of desktop search engine use, according to recent data from Net Market Share.

«Wherever there is a pervasive sense of community, a paper that serves the special informational needs of that community will remain indispensable to a significant portion of its residents.»

You can not test the existence of things that only leave «supposed» traces of evidence, when the existence of such things is based on their pervasive influence yet pervasive elusiveness that remains elusive because nobody has yet to devise a means to find it yet.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

And of course, slavery, then Jim Crow, remained firmly in place in the states south of the Mason - Dixon Line, but Coates demonstrates the pervasive racism and discrimination that prevented African Americans in the north from educational and professional advancement as well.

to be logically impossible.95 If, however, Neville's demand for an ontological analysis can be sustained, Whiteheadians may then be forced to deal with the problems of being and the one and the many (perhaps by wedding Neville's Platonic - Augustinian ontology to process metaphysics, a possibility Neville himself entertains].96 Even so, two of Neville's most crucial claims remain debatable: (1) that indeterminate Being - Itself — without definiteness and beyond description — is supremely deserving of religious devotion, 97 and (2) that the process God — personal, the pervasive source of moral ideals, and the supreme agent in the achievement of these aims — is not.

Amos, on the other hand, with the pervasive use of bible verses and cliché, remains hidden from us all.

Inviting a white supremacist to speak on MLK day and then supposing that a short tribute video will make up for it shows just how real and pervasive the «shallow understanding» and «lukewarm acceptance» King warned about remains a part of white Christian culture.

The story has to include the reminder that racism remains subtle and pervasive in our modern society.

However, it was sufficiently and clearly enough Lutheran to remain distinct from the pervasive Kulturprotestantismus of the other mainline churches.

«The constraint factors of growth in the sub-region remained largely the same, including the pervasive political and non-tariff trade barriers, poor and uncoordinated energy supply, and infrastructure in roads and railway networks, therefore making it unattractive for investment.

Of the original nine proposed boundaries, they identify three (including climate change) that might push the Earth system into a new state if crossed and that also have a pervasive influence on the remaining boundaries.

Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests it may be far more pervasive; because the drug only remains in the athlete's system for a matter of hours, low doses are very difficult to detect.

Even 50,000 years after the last interbreeding, the genetic influence remains «pervasive and important,» Akey said.

The ketogenic diet has become pervasive in the United States in both popular culture and fitness circles for its myriad health benefits, but it remains contentious.

Though it generally suffers from a pervasive vibe of familiarity, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb remains relatively watchable for the duration of its brisk running time - with the movie clearly faring better in its action - packed, fast - paced second half.

But by the middle of the film, the temporal decisions made during its disorienting prologue suddenly make perfect sense: while Less Than Zero will never be as narratively jumpy again, the pervasive mood of the piece remains disconnected and frightened.

In a 360 - degree pan of the region known as Tiboonda, Wake in Fright director Ted Kotcheff establishes a pervasive sense of isolated entrapment, which will remain visually and thematically integral throughout this 1971 Aussie classic.

Pavan Dhaliwal, director of public affairs and policy at the BHA, said: «We acknowledge, of course, that there are plenty of «faith» schools out there in which problems of this kind described in some of the blogs do not arise, or do not arise to the same extent, but it remains the case that there are a huge number of people out there who have experienced indoctrination, misinformation, discrimination, neglect, and abuse during their childhoods as a result of the extensive freedoms and pervasive lack of oversight that «faith» schools of all kinds enjoy.

This troubling yet pervasive tableau has bedeviled modern reform movements since their inception: Leadership has remained predominantly white, even though the target populations are overwhelmingly black and Latino.

Even as shelter statistics have continued to improve, large - breed and pit - bull type dogs remain at - risk in shelters due to persistent and pervasive misinformation and misconceptions that prejudice people against them.

This «Ninth World» has a pervasive medieval feel to it, and artifacts from the previous ages, known as numenera, represent the remains of science and technology.

used for the Biennial speaks to how pervasive the generic view of blackness remains even in the new global art world, such that «Africa» is broadly and shallowly referenced as a historical and cultural framework, and only when compatible with a white - led agenda.

«They are breathtakingly inventive, endlessly entertaining, and all - pervasive, but one question seems to remain: are they art?

Our postmodern sensibilities notwithstanding, there remains in this culture a deep and pervasive undercurrent of Platonic idealism, of belief in the possibility of purity, perfection, and permanence in a world that so emphatically suggests otherwise.

In a sense, the fact that this point needs emphasis shows how pervasive the one - path - to - justice - fits - all thinking remains in Canada's justice system.

Yet despite the pervasive integration of technology into various social institutions, one dimension of civil society — the courtroom — has remained relatively immune from technology's noisy demands for recognition.

While mobile communications remain popular and pervasive, consumers are prone to turn away from traditional SMS and find more convenient solutions for them for

While mobile communications remain popular and pervasive, consumers are prone to turn away from traditional SMS and find more convenient solutions for them for messaging their friends and family members» with digital messages and media.

As Jews that lost all of their family that remained in Poland, Russia and then Lithuania, my mother and her family were very attuned to what can happen when bigotry, fear and a lack of questioning of power and authority become pervasive.