Most voters might be surprised to discover how little support this ingrained attitude gets from the nation's three longstanding religious traditions.

Such ingrained attitudes must be confronted if fat people are ever to gain acceptance, the researchers say.

Are there deeply ingrained attitudes toward the sexuality of all objects?

This, they say, is because patients carry with them deeply ingrained attitudes toward health and disease that derive from varied backgrounds.

"It is sometimes hard to ignore ingrained attitudes," said Jane.

But personal attention cannot always change ingrained attitudes.

Persuading Hollywood is the immediate problem, however, and ingrained attitudes die hard.

Minute and very subtle adjustments were shifting some of his most deeply ingrained attitudes and perceptions.

Foreign executives are also concerned about a proliferation of regulations and about ingrained attitudes that make doing business here difficult under any circumstances.

A new civil-rights law, in whatever form, is bound not to address the ingrained attitudes that still work against blacks.