0 the act of causing something to continue, especially something harmful, or the fact of something harmful continuing:
Segregation at school allows the perpetuation of myths and misunderstanding about other cultures.
His election would represent a perpetuation of the current administration.
While there was some perpetuation of stereotypes, the newspapers handled the debate reasonably.
Following this phase, perpetuation occurs - a phase in which the differentiated phenotype of the cell is amplified by mediators via autocrine signals.
In this way, they acquired their status as groups that most benefited from the perpetuation of the system while negotiating increasingly favorable terms for themselves.
For what happens within civil society organisations is not the empowerment of the marginalised, but the perpetuation of their disempowerment.
However, there is little in our findings to indicate the perpetuation of sharper political divisions.
It had two main goals : to inscribe the brotherhood's marks on the land of the founder's forebears and to ensure the perpetuation of its legacy.
