indoctrinate


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Synonyms for indoctrinate

to instruct in a body of doctrine or belief

to teach to accept a system of thought uncritically

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S, 2007 a MSHA inspector cited an aggregates operator under 56.18006 for failure to indoctrinate a newly hired employee in safety rules and safe work procedures.
Among the film's rhetorical questions is, "if men account for only 44 percent of the college population, making them a minority, then shouldn't colleges invest in men's resource centers?" Ironically, "Indoctrinate U" fails to note that such programs for underrepresented Black men have found themselves facing lawsuits--from conservatives.
Using a character based on an appealing, world famous and beloved icon like Mickey Mouse to teach Islamic supremacy and resistance as Islamic duty is a powerful and effective way to indoctrinate children.
Not to evangelize or indoctrinate children but instead to let them feel both the sorrow and the joy hidden inside the story of Jesus.
Dennis Baxley, said it would prevent professors from "a misuse of their platform to indoctrinate the next generation with their own views."
Corren's suit is not about increasing tolerance but the leading edge of a wedge to indoctrinate all BC school children with homosexual propaganda.
There are already many Cubans here, teaching everything from urban gardening to sports, and Chavez's recent announcement that he would bring in Cuban literacy instructors, despite high unemployment among Venezuela's own teachers, raised protests that the Cubans are here solely to indoctrinate poor Venezuelans.
Gutmann, a contemporary political philosopher, shares Dewey's concern that parents, particularly religious ones, will indoctrinate children with irrationality and intolerance, making them ill suited for life in a democratic society.
"Whenever someone is sick, they go to their home and indoctrinate them.
In the absence of other independently accessible sources of information, such youths were relatively easy to indoctrinate into the Islamic cause.
Oftentimes, these groups use extreme sleep deprivation, dietary restriction, and physical fatigue to indoctrinate members.
In an important prose pamphlet, Poetry Militant (1909), he argued that the poet should educate, propagandize, and indoctrinate. His later works include The Bush (1912), a long poem about Australia; Alma Venus!
From left to right, green-skinned lesbians in sexy sci-fi outfits indoctrinate an "Earthling" (read heterosexual) woman into their strange society.
Lectures, speeches, tapes and books indoctrinate them and incite them to fight for the Free World against Communism.
This tactic was further weaponised when the IS recruited thousands of teachers and used them to indoctrinate tens of thousands of children who were studying in government-run schools.