Example sentences of "in a [adj] society [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in a healthy society it is enough that the officials accept the secondary rules of recognition , adjudication and change and that the citizens acquiesce . |
| 2 | As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear . |
| 3 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
| 4 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
| 5 | In a capitalist society you can not escape the impact of money on your own welfare . |
| 6 | Correction by one 's superiors is integral to most forms of organization : in a hierarchical society it is accentuated . |
| 7 | And in a democratic society we are able to confer unbelievable power on a boss simply in the expectation that the value of the rewards the boss controls is great enough to make this subjugation bearable , even though , in law , we are equal . |
| 8 | I think in a democratic society we restrict the security services and that gives the advantage to the terrorists , ’ he said . |
| 9 | In a liberal society we assume that it can not be objectively defined . |
| 10 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 11 | One reason why you should try to develop the direction in which you think the company should go from both ends of the company at once is that in the process you gain the commitment of those who will have to follow the direction — and ‘ make it happen ’ and in a free society you are unlikely to get this commitment without a high degree of involvement and understanding of both where the ultimate goal is , and the process by which the decisions regarding that goal have been reached . |