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re-enforce .
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Examples
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Whether the object is weight maintenance or loss, this seems to reenforce their goal and results in their adjusting food intake and their level of physical activity.
Bruce A. Barron: From Overweight to Obese Bruce A. Barron 2011
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They use repetition and volume to reenforce their message rather than evidence.
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Take the systems we have now rewrite them, combine them and reenforce them with up to date coverages.
Sources: White House considers drafting health care bill 2009
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The Bible Passages in the sights of our weapons only reenforce it.
Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee. 2010
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We have gone through a period of failure—failure to teach, encourage, expect, and reenforce both personal and social responsibility.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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We have gone through a period of failure—failure to teach, encourage, expect, and reenforce both personal and social responsibility.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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This affirms that societies and cultures that already have a social structure that oppresses women will press religion into service to reenforce those social norms.
TEXAS FAITH: Do religions oppress women? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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We have gone through a period of failure—failure to teach, encourage, expect, and reenforce both personal and social responsibility.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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We have gone through a period of failure—failure to teach, encourage, expect, and reenforce both personal and social responsibility.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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We have gone through a period of failure—failure to teach, encourage, expect, and reenforce both personal and social responsibility.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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