How To Use Society In A Sentence

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
This is due to the then nonexistent mobilization of what is called today the "civil society."
Yet at the end of this period, as at the beginning, the influence of lordship in society was pervasive.
A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.

Class privilege has reached the point where the entire society is ruled by a plutocracy.
Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or Shakers, remain the longest-lived communal society in the United States.
I'm fascinated by how involuted discussions of race and society become.
In today's society, the goal of obtaining physical perfection is quite common.
The adult members of society are under curfew and the elderly under house arrest: feral youth has taken over.
Stanhope sees his openness as a counter to society's hypocrisy about such subjects.
Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
Now we had been taken notice of, put forward, and patronized, in undeniably genteel society. Oldtown Folks
In a truly participatory democratic society, an educated and skilled population is essential to its continuance.
We live in a mixed society now and this sort of thing is disgusting and shouldn't be tolerated.
New Zealand had become a multicultural society. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland. Times, Sunday Times
He said the campaign fully supported the legislation and would be lobbying for the United Nations and the African Union to encourage governments in programmes to demilitarise society. ANC Daily News Briefing
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde
A person's job is one of the factors that determines their place in society.
The society often arranges poetry readings and musical evenings.
It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead.
A complete list of golf courses near airports is available from the U. S. Golf Society.
Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
Years later, after their defeat, they finally understood how far from international norms they were and saw a change in the youngest element of their society, so they began a counterpropaganda campaign. The Coming Revolution
The capital of the overseas territory of French Polynesia, a port on the northwest coast of Tahiti in the Society Islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.
The effect of the self-conceit can only be to unite the society in hostility against us. David Bromwich: The Afghanistan Parenthesis [UPDATED]
And August 6, three days after her 18th birthday, Charlotte will make her official society debut at the traditional Red Cross Ball.
The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
Let me emphasise the point that the establishment of such a society is not some kind of utopian dream.
Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides
Is it not a huge problem in today's society that there are too many children who are unloved and neglected?
The fabric of society has been deeply damaged by the previous regime.
The society has a large membership.
The society is currently looking for tenors basses, altos and sopranos to join the adult choir.
Santelli, who will present new research findings next week at a meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, says his study — to be published later this year — shows a downturn in contraceptive use since 2003. Unmarried women boost record '07 U.S. birth rate
We live in a sick society.
This society lacks structural tension. "liminal" and "anti-structure" are absent here.
Since then he has continued to explore the fringes of society with his camera. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe then the Supreme Court would stand up for equality of opportunity, and Gandhi's vision of a casteless society could be realized. Caste Out
Models from the Louise Morton Model Agency of Huddersfield will be on the catwalk for the fashion shows, which take place four times each day in the Skipton Building Society Fashion Pavilion.
The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations.
Archer is thankful that his future wife knows and follows the manners and customs of New York society.
When her great-Aunt (an Evil Stepmother) dies, Estelle is under suspicion by the authorities and hopes to be cleared by a member of the Static Society. REVIEW: Extraordinary Engines edited by Nick Gevers
Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society.
‘Both these shops have given the area a lift and made it worth visiting by retaining and just maintaining original shopfronts,’ the society said.
Only when an influence is exerted, whether immediately or through a third party, from one upon another has society come into existence in place of a mere spatial juxtaposition or temporal contemporaneousness or succession of individuals. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
The forum gives anti-globalization activists and civil society leaders a chance promote progressive causes. At Close of World Social Forum, Activists Draw Inspiration from Uprisings
The status of a character trait as a virtue need not be a fixed matter, but a matter complexly interrelated with the sort of society in which it appears.
For example, it would be impermissible for the Society because it did not wish to offer annuities itself to use its discretion as to bonuses to make it more attractive for the policy holder to use another provider.
Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
Islam has changed unprecedentedly in the domain of life and culture in the tidal current of adapting to Socialism society and time, and has stridden into a rational development time.
He asks whether a general phenomenon would cease to be a feature of a society if particular individuals held different beliefs.
In the interview, he said that the party was working on a raft of policies designed to create a more cohesive society.
But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society. A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
He delights in the society of brilliant painters, singers and musicians.
To make advanced computing and communications information infrastructure available to-and usable by-a larger segment of the society.
It thus promises to take us beyond the Nature-Society dualism organising both previous Marxian work on nature and versions of bourgeois technocentrism and radical ecocentrism.
Opening at the turn of the last century, it shows a society riven by hypocrisy and deceit. Times, Sunday Times
From Italy, coffee made its way to France where it was introduced to society in 1650. Archive 2009-03-01
He quit the society in 2004 to pursue a research fellowship in Australia. Times, Sunday Times
There is now a real movement in our society to pull our youngsters back from the edge of the precipice of self-annihilation and redirect our children toward a wholesome lifestyle which will allow them a chance to fulfill their potential.
This left him treading a narrow path along which private control and economic incentives might be preserved and yet society could obtain its full due by the complete expropriation of Ricardian rent.
The Law Society vigorously opposed the restrictive amendment.
The only way "society" can eliminate delays in childbearing is to cause delays in the re-election of our representatives in Washington who oppose eliminating them. Letters
A growing segment of our society longs for a return to traditional values.
He set forth an idealistic view of society.
The amount of money protected if your bank or building society collapses drops sharply. Times, Sunday Times
Social inequity gives a lower status to women as being less important, less capable, less central and less valuable than men in society.
They were civilized people who knew when society gets stale. Times, Sunday Times
A person in the world must have his own business , no matter big or small . Only with recognition from the society can your life is meaningful.
Tea parties were Irene's favorite activity, and Elisa loved to pretend she was a high society debutante (which she would be in a matter of years but the girl was impatient).
Utilitarian dressers are likely to have bought their garb from British Home Stores and the Co-operative Society.
These louts personify all that is wrong with our society today.
_Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_. Pushing to the Front
He looks for answers in dharma, the moral law that sustains society, the individual and the world. Katherine Marshall: How Hinduism's Mahabharata Can Help Restore Ethics in India
The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
His thought, establish from Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty till Manchu Dynasty last years of the period China feudalistic society of the Rite cure mode of thought foundation.
The first, which has even been recognised by Canadian law, is that freedom of speech should be subject to such limits so as not to be detrimental to peaceable society.
A few well-garlanded madams of the society crowd passed by, gossiping, their rich black minks set for the chill in the Springtime air, their heels clopping gently on the sidewalk.
We have to organise a new international working class response to the crisis of capitalist economy and society.
In 1868 Japan was a pre-industrial society; less than 40 years later it was a world power.
Can we preserve nuance, detail and polychromy in our accounts of ourselves – as complex selves in a complex society – without being coerced into subscription towards one group identity or another by colour-blind demagogues? A true democracy demands constant revitalisation of the spirit of openness, generosity and liberality of opinion
It should be noted that society was only willing to let these girls be heroines if they wore tight clothes and were beautiful.
Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds. Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts'). Bassani's Father
In the case of English the answer is obvious: everyone in today's society needs to be literate and able to communicate well.
At the meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2000 a group of rhetoricians from Communication and English met late one afternoon to consider the future of rhetoric as an academic discipline.
That 'lifeway' supplied our youth with a critique of Jamaican (and world) society and gave them some firm moral and personal orientations. Jamaica Gleaner Online
Clearly, this is the way people are moving—we have a health-conscious society. Under Pressure, McDonald's Adds Apples to Kids Meals
Michael is a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
That made him careless about liberty and willing to use the authority of the state to create the sort of society he wanted to see.
That scene is a remarkable illustration of his society's greed and gluttony.
The blanket medicalisation of society, however, should be approached with caution. Times, Sunday Times
The group agreed it was a great idea and formed a registered non-profit society.
Newton was made President of the Royal Society.
Just because an obscure term is included on a sticker from a national organisation that primarily functions in academic circles does not mean that we as a society are inclusive.
He may have talked of having a classless society but the class divide is still there: he can't have been walking down the same streets as me.
I've said that we want to put responsibility at the heart of our society and thrift at the heart of our government. The Sun
It points to some of the ethical roots of social action and the citizens' responsibilities towards a just society.
Its intention is to restore pride in the past and create a more mannered society.
In particular, they were a product of the treatment of women and their role in society at the time.
The outcome of better science should be the betterment of society, on the whole, and an improvement in every individual's life.
As an aside to its fundraising campaign, the Sussex Archaeological Society is inviting the 1960s diggers to a reunion on 22 May - all 800 of them.
This explains why the initial idea about the constitutive elements of civil society here was fairly urban-biased and middle class-related.
That society had a lot of different modes and different opinions and different prejudices. Times, Sunday Times
Nineteenth-century Britain was a class-conscious society.
Many of the subjects are necessarily members of wealthy or aristocratic families, and part of the purpose of the show is to explore the place of children in society their dress, and their toys.
David Sumner, chairman of the Worthing Society, said Pinter wrote one of his bestknown plays, The Homecoming, while in Worthing. Pinter honoured with plaque (UK)
Let her go abroad and tell the world how primitive is the structure of our society.
It is a retreat inward and a tacit approval of injustice in society. Christianity Today
There's an insatiable demand that causes questions for society as a whole. Times, Sunday Times
The demonstrators seemed to be from a complete cross-section of society - male and female, old and young, rich and poor.
Society on a small discovery which he had made by the aid of a "wretched microscope" to the effect that the so-called ova of Flustra were really larvæ and had the power of independent action by means of cilia. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
But that doesn't excuse the tribalism from the people with my skin color who want to deprive honest and hardworking people of the chance to make it in a free society because they don't happen to have a high-IQ. A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Facing the dilemmas of ethical behaviour in a decidedly unethical society is the harder choice.
A person in the world must have his own business , no matter big or small . Only with recognition from the society can your life is meaningful.
Their whole society was built around their religious beliefs.
Founded in 1660, the Society has three roles, as the UK academy of science, as a learned Society, and as a funding agency.
Along with brazenly ridiculing government and society, Ko began to incorporate short comedic skits into the band's sets.
The society strongly opposes further fee cuts and will continue to fight them. Times, Sunday Times
Of labor added evil spirit to provide lawful sex basis for capitalist society.
In a plural society it is both inevitable and important that people offend others. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the best efforts of the unwashed layabouts who call themselves the anti-capitalist movement, market forces remain the future of our society.
In addition, the rural population is sometimes seen as a specific class in Marx's historical writings, as is the Lumpenproletariat (“dregs of society”), so that we obtain an image of society, which, far from the usual dichotomic or trichotomic image, is differentiated into several strata with multiple interests. CLASS
As a liberal, as a progressive, he had risen to a position of leadership in society.
Haraway's juxtaposition of the words ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’ illustrates the arbitrary nature of these and other binaries in Western society.
All animals that could not be made to perform some sort of service to society were completely killed off.
Where policy is radically dissociated from the reality of death, the paradoxical result is a society dominated by the logic of death.
Then, although he belongs to his society, he changes it, presenting it with fresh feelings, fresh ideas.
This in turn reflects aspects of the way their society was organised. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
I find myself wondering, as I watch and read the unfolding news coverage of this event, if, as a society, we remain equipped to pause long enough to consider the long-term ramifications of any event, tragic or otherwise. Elizabeth Bisbee Silber: The Consequences of Our Rapid-Fire Culture
So I suppose it's no surprise that a May 7 press release from the the World Congress of Families (WCF), an extremely conservative group that "seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society," accused CCF of wanting to '' de-institutionalize marriage "and of celebrating the fact" that an increasing number of women are choosing not to marry and have children. Stephanie Coontz: Unconventional Wisdom on Families
The fact is the financial sector failed society. Times, Sunday Times
We are living in a consumer society.
The contestants are drawn from a cross section of society.
Their whole society was built around their religious beliefs.
V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance. Analytical Studies
Drawing on these experiences, Webb's novelettes focus on the leisure-time activities of upper-class society in London, Paris, and Cannes.
It was a dramatic transformation, from society hostess to Democratic Party power broker.
It made no difference that many of these lost and hapless souls had relatives in the Society. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
The mission of the center is to seek the betterment of society through sports, according to the organization.
D1 is drawn to include these private benefits plus the additional spillover benefits accruing to society at large.
Resolution I. -- That the Society be called the Fabian Society (as Mr. Podmore explained in allusion to the victorious policy of Fabius The History of the Fabian Society
In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians.
Being a scientist in a western society, the researcher is unlikely to think that music or magic have much influence.
He is a vulnerable member of society suffering from significant mental and physical ill health. Times, Sunday Times
Despite revelations of wrongdoing in high places during recent years, Ireland remains a society obsessed with secrecy.
An indigenized cultural pattern is integrated into the artistic repertoire of the host society, and, as a consequence, it is not felt to be ‘alien’ anymore.
Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
We are dropouts from society, useless dregs who make no contribution, so it is inevitable that people will look at us strangely and with contempt.
Wilson depicted the struggles of African Americans with a lyrical beauty and captured the lives of those who lived on the edges of the society with a dignity that was worthy of the titanic power of any character in Greek drama.
The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society.
Violent crime is one of the maladies affecting modern society.
Your local astronomical society will be pleased to give you further advice and practical help in choosing a suitable telescope or pair of binoculars.
That is very much part of the social bargain whereby writers are "left alone" to implement their craft, as opposed to being harassed or hounded out of existence; they get their NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and everyone is happy since the power equations in society remain undisturbed. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
Clearly more than a colony, a ctenophore might best be described as a society of highly organized and interdependent cells. Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms
Drug abuse is the cancer of our society.
I suppose every society needs its self-appointed professional disapprovers, but they really wouldn't be much fun to sit next to at a dinner party.
The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
It is still the case that there is no alternative, no political contestation about the future of society. Times, Sunday Times
Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and even marijuana and alcohol can have serious effects on our personal life and may have broader detrimental impacts on society at large.
Tall, well proportioned, and always well dressed, he carried himself in polite society with dignity and courtliness. A Country of Vast Designs
Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
We like to think that we are making a positive contribution to society.
Spontaneous, full of life, and unbound by the conventional mores and laws of society, Carmen embodies the heroic defiance of free spirit, desire, and natural instinct over the social rules governing modernity.
From the annals of Indian history, it can be discerned that the role of women in the society is no less than men.
We strive hard to build a just society, but we ignore a glaring source of inequality.
It is a key contributor to civil society, which is what holds us together without the coercive power of law. Times, Sunday Times
For some, the term off-grid brings to mind images of pod houses, biospheres and eccentric individualists determined to live free from society—including from the convenience of grid-supplied electricity. Let the Market Pay for Renewable Energy
Society has changed so profoundly over the last fifty years.
The civil war tore apart the fabric of society.
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. Bill Clinton
The user group with an inherently greater potential for implementation is the more privileged section of the society.
the financial services industry is like a cancer in our society.
The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them .
We live in a largely secular society.
Welcome to the ‘surveillance society’, where the police can bug, wire-tap and even entrap you in the name of law and order.
With the bumsters' new focus on butt-cleavage within the society of the naked ape, push-up brassieres will have to compete aggressively to bring attention back to the chest.
The following papers are contributions to a symposium on these topics presented at the 1999 meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
People become charity trustees for myriad reasons, often wanting to give something back to society. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, the wealthiest members of our society are relatively unaffected. Times, Sunday Times
On 1 January 1956 an international society for the study of bioclimatology was established on the initiative of S.W. Tromp (Netherlands).
One consents to the establishment of a political society and to its authority because of the benefits one will derive from its existence.
My emotions manage to squeeze a few tears past the imposed strictures of my society, but most of my grief only pounds wrathfully against generations of parents telling sons that ‘big boys don't cry.’
In a just society there must be a system whereby people can seek redress through the courts.
Modern republicanism doesn't go this far, for it is wedded to the ideal of "civil society". After Thatcher
They focus on the family, analysing both its internal structure and its functions for the wider society.
Slowly these different nations were assimilated into one society with a broadly common identification.
Essentially it means the separation of religion from some element of society, be that education, ethics or government.
Putting years of training into learning how to apply hypnotic and meridian therapies is quite a dramatic departure for the father-of-three after running a regional building society for much of his life.
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