Example sentences of "our society " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 2 | Blame me for becoming poor if you like — I admit , I blew it — but the responsibility for the way our society treats its poorer members is not exclusively mine . |
| 3 | The poorest people in our society are left with the poorest facilities — and that 's probably the same wherever you go . |
| 4 | The Staff College should be a place where serving officers have the opportunity to contemplate society as a whole and in particular to study and consider those liberal and humane values which are central to our society . |
| 5 | ‘ Our club ’ presumably overlaps while being smaller than ‘ the best circles ’ of this society , whereas the ‘ they ’ of ‘ the whole town ’ is sometimes , but only sometimes , the ‘ we ’ of ‘ our town ’ ; and ‘ our group ’ which springs out of ‘ my ’ special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin , Nicholas 's mother and Stepan 's patroness , is different again and again overlapping ; and the ‘ all ’ buried inside the phrase ‘ our ‘ old man ’ — as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves ’ is probably though not certainly synonymous with this ‘ group ’ ; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like ‘ civic grief ’ and in parcellings-out like ‘ the poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ , and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as ‘ almost the whole town , that is of course the entire top stratum of our society ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Those are the real dangers in our society today . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as we are concerned , if nurses are in conflict with their employer - and they are the least-able section of our society to fight — it is incumbent upon workers to take a stand to support nurses and other workers . ’ |
| 8 | Our society needs to be given the chance to hear its own heartbeat in its own music — for pleasure first , then also for knowledge and understanding . |
| 9 | We should not aim at levels of US poverty as goals for our society . |
| 10 | It results from and reflects power , patronage and politics in our society — and it is detested by those who must live for decades in its shadow . |
| 11 | The changes proposed by your correspondent , as well as by Polly Toynbee in her book Lost Children , could well add to the increasing number of children in our society who lack a strong family background provided by two married parents . |
| 12 | If your only answer is to pour more money on the problem then I would direct your attention to the parlous condition of other more deserving sectors of our society . |
| 13 | Our society and culture , together with our spiritual awareness , has built a structure over the years to help us remember those people and events that have done much to determine the kind of lives we live today , and that part of the structure that relates to the Royal Air Force has , of course , a special interest for our Association . |
| 14 | Its prevalence is due to the fact that an implant into our society has changed a community that was previously homogeneous into a community which is no longer homogeneous and self-identifying . |
| 15 | Unless my recollection is at fault , it seems to be that two generations ago it was accepted in our society that we did not use firearms . |
| 16 | The 1979 Conservative election manifesto claimed : ‘ The balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the state at the expense of individual freedom … this election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process . ’ |
| 17 | In his final chapter , he notes that the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce identified what he feels ‘ may perhaps be the most important influence of all in driving up the divorce rate , namely the idealization of the individual pursuit of self-gratification and personal pleasure at the expense of a sense of reciprocal obligations and duties towards helpless dependents , such as children , and , our society as a whole ’ ( pp 403–4 ) . |
| 18 | If they 're not very careful , the family will lose out every time and that causes a lot of problems in our society . |
| 19 | It is also perfectly valid to use data about other cultures to show that , because these cultures work on other principles than the principles which govern our society , the principles are historically specific and not universal and unchangeable . |
| 20 | The second purpose is to show how the beliefs and values which organize our society are produced by the history of the social formation . |
| 21 | But deeper than all this are the values of our society . |
| 22 | In organising these parties , you were targeting young people , among the most vulnerable in our society ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We call for a priority to be given immediately to new legislation which will actively facilitate the re-entry into our society of those at present disadvantaged within it . ’ |
| 24 | Dixons claims to supply one in every five TV sets sold in the UK — although Mr Kalms once described television ‘ as one of the curses of our society ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ An abscess , long hidden within our society , had just burst : the abscess of complacency and self-flattery , of corruption and protectionism , of narrow-mindedness and self-serving privilege . ’ |
| 26 | Our society can not afford to lose a single one of its young people . ’ |
| 27 | Groups in our society such as Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Green party are to be congratulated for the energetic way they are drawing our attention to the issues involved . |
| 28 | That is , until we start to look at the reality of our society . |
| 29 | The real villians of our society are the money men . |
| 30 | The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is . |