Example sentences of "social and economic [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He asks rhetorically if there has been ‘ a deliberate conspiracy … to keep adolescents … in an inferior social and economic position ’ .
2 Indian Tamils , recent emigrants from southern India , had a very low social and economic position .
3 The high social and economic position of the organizers made people reluctant to confront them .
4 On the one hand , the new art history 's commitment to the conditions in which art is produced has influenced a strong interest in women artists ' different social and economic position ; and on the other , the history of psychology , represented above all by Michael Foucault 's studies of sexuality , has fostered a keen awareness , among practitioners as well as critics , that cultural symbolism informs the language of social exchange beyond material , that it expresses sand creates shared ideas about femaleness , about sexual difference ; furthermore , these ideas are constantly in flux .
5 It is possible to identify many individual wage earners in the court records , and the next stage of the project involves finding out more from other sources about these individuals , so as to understand more fully their social and economic position , and especially the extent to which they were solely reliant on their income from wage earning .
6 This research intends to help plug this gap , using the example of women 's initiatives in local government ( women 's committees etc ) which seek to improve the social and economic position of women both inside councils and in their local areas .
7 It takes a broad view today of what is meant by the protection of rural beauty by including within this definition consideration of all aspects of environmental quality , as well as the general social and economic viability of rural communities .
8 The importance of this debate can be explained , partly , by the political capital which the Opposition could make from linking the social and economic malaise of the country at large with violent street disturbances .
9 It is reasonable to assume that such changes have significant social and economic effects , yet they have been conspicuously neglected by social scientists .
10 Although divorce is affecting an increasing number of people , little is known about the longer term social and economic effects of the financial arrangements made at the time of divorce .
11 This project seeks to assess the social and economic effects of recent smallholder tea and tobacco programmes in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya .
12 Here landscape regions were identified which permitted an investigation to be made of the social and economic effects of land ) use patterns , and which allowed the territorial organisation of the period to be set within its geographical framework .
13 The scandal came at a time when the government was already riding low in the polls because of the social and economic effects of its economic deregulation policies [ see p. 38524 ] .
14 The MPs called for a full report from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate on both bids ; a detailed list of all the matters under review ; precise statements on the terms of reference of the Rosyth review and on the relative weight to be placed on capital and current costs in the multi-million bids ; and the social and economic effects of run-down on employment in Rosyth and Devonport .
15 But this past decade has seen fundamental changes in the British economic and political scene that have made the provision of social and economic resources more difficult : what affect could this have on the class structure ?
16 Relative to disabled people , it is non-Disabled people who hold the social and economic resources , and ways need to be found to facilitate equitable access to them .
17 In 1953 , the Ministry of Labour and National Service issued a memorandum on the Employment of Older Men and Women which claimed that ‘ for compelling social and economic reasons the door must be opened widely to the employment of people able and willing to work , irrespective of their age ’ .
18 Professor Dyos ' study of Camberwell was the first in a series of examinations which have enabled us to see how the ubiquitous terraced streets of our great cities were laid out and slowly built up in a highly complex way , for a whole series of social and economic reasons .
19 Even the more substantial changes pale against the broad sweep of political , social and economic progress over this period .
20 N G Os have shown over and over again that by working alongside a community they can help identify the barriers to development experienced by that community and they can support the community as it works to make social and economic progress .
21 Social and economic systems are in a continuous process of evolution over time and respond both to internal and external factors .
22 This places men generally in a position of power over women , whether at home , at work or through the political , social and economic systems and institutions which govern our lives .
23 Other societies had had similar social and economic systems to that of Europe and had not developed capitalism .
24 It has had very different meanings and connotations in its long history , and is understood differently today in the context of different social and economic systems .
25 Both unions are proud to be associated with this noble and historic enterprise , and share the view that this work is essential to assist the people in those countries to build democratic , political , social and economic systems .
26 To do this , education has to be seen as a continuing life process linked to social and economic activity at all points and not just as a precursor to employment and a dependent adjunct thereafter .
27 Work and education will be integrated and ‘ employment ’ — that is , the duality of learning and working — will be a social and economic activity for which commerce and industry , educational institutions , and government with assistance from foundations will work in tripartite partnership .
28 However , the state still intervenes in many areas of social and economic activity including the provision of welfare services — hence the existence of the public sector .
29 This is the ‘ region ’ for which extensive social and economic trend information is available and it has a practical reality as the area of responsibility of the Northern Regional Health Authority and as the regional level of organization of central state departments .
30 The need to avoid bad history is the reason the debate over the teaching of history in schools is so important : what is the proper balance between traditional concerns with royalty and battles as against the need to understand the great political movements of our time and the social and economic conditions which spawned them ?
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