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

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1 In Britain , the problem has been particularly acute and all political parties are agreed that the phenomenon of unemployment is not only a centrally important political issue but raises also profound economic , social and moral questions .
2 An analysis of the Lords ' Proxy Book , a study of the tellers in divisions in the Commons , or a consideration of the way the Commons dealt with cases of disputed elections , all reinforce the conclusion that most Parliamentary business — with the exception of purely private legislation , local economic issues , or social and moral questions — was conducted along party lines .
3 Their research on Malaysian and Singaporean women export-industry workers ( a category that mostly includes TNC workers ) shows that ethnicity and the availability of alternative employment can be key factors in the social and moral evaluation of women workers , and that there are substantial variations in the conceptions of factory work for women ( whether in TNCs or not ) across different communities .
4 Although disease was now increasingly defined as an internal malfunction of the body , its causes included the whole of the social and moral history of the nation :
5 The internalization of rules , values and judgements is an important part of social and moral development .
6 There was a relaxation of the ban on Catholic participation in Italian politics , it is true , for Pius was convinced of the importance of defending the social and moral order and foresaw the possibility of a Catholic majority in the Italian parliament .
7 She rarely seems resistant to change as such , but scrutinizes its social and moral effects , deciding each case according to its merits .
8 Her startling assertion is made mainly on the basis of a three-year research project carried out by her for the Centre For Social and Moral Education .
9 As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials .
10 Can an overall school policy which gives appropriate weight to equal opportunities , health education , political literacy , personal , social and moral education and the other emphases described in Lawton 's analysis be planned , implemented and , in general terms , managed without a detailed understanding of what is needed to handle each issue ?
11 Deviance is thus used to describe behaviour that is outside the rules of society ; and these rules can be legal rules or social and moral rules , rules about the conventional way to dress or to speak to other people , for example .
12 The intellectual principles which were common to the broad formation — open rational inquiry , the development of morality through education , opposition to oppression and to arbitrary laws — were specifically composed into novels which integrated individual lives and social and moral circumstances by a new formal integration of ‘ character ’ and ‘ plot ’ , with the founding assumption that character and action grew together out of circumstances and could be altered only by their general alteration .
13 If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved .
14 For Hopkins as for Blackwell , feminism centrally meant bringing the private sphere of bourgeois womanhood to bear on the public world of social and moral problems .
15 These so-called norms reflect society 's expectations of what is appropriate , that is to say , normal social and moral behaviour .
16 At the start of each school day there is a twenty minute tutorial time , during which personal , social and moral values are discussed within the tutor group . ’
17 Early experiences shape the way we face up to and deal with problems and crises ; the way we cope with disappointments ; the way we form relationships ; the way we construct personal aims and objectives ; the way we develop strategies for fulfilling needs and desires ; and the way we build a system of social and moral values and attitudes .
18 Given these observations upon the complexity of criminal law as a social and moral phenomenon it follows that it can exist as an ‘ introductory ’ subject only through its radical distortion , simplification , amputation and eclecticism .
19 The concentration of punitive attention on more serious and violent offenders is an ‘ attempt to reassert an agreed conscience collective , or other kind of consensus , in a time of great social and moral doubt and confusion .
20 If a novel is no more and no less than a verbal artefact , there can be no separation of the author 's creation of a fiction of plot , character , social and moral life , from the language in which it is portrayed .
21 Hence , there is a necessary attempt , in order to bring in economic regulation , to construct a conservative recomposition of social and moral life .
22 Also , deviant behaviour is behaviour that can result in some form of punishment ; and this punishment can be either a formal , legal punishment or take the form of social and moral disapproval .
23 And who would have thought that as we face the 1990s the social and moral habits of the 1960s should be visited upon us in the guise of AIDS , which threatens to sweep across the world with all the terror and destruction of the black plague in the Middle Ages ?
24 We have all heard the prophets of social and moral decay recalling the days when such ‘ senseless and mindless ’ violence did not exist .
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26 C. G. Jung points out that Christianity at least provides a powerful set of motives for the individual to conform to a social and moral code .
27 Consent may thus be said to require not merely a knowledge of the physical facts of sexual intercourse but some elementary appreciation of the significance of the act in its biological , social and moral context .
28 Although born and educated in Vienna in 1931 he was appointed Tooke Professor of Economic Science in London University where he remained until accepting a Chair of Social and Moral Sciences at the University of Chicago in 1950 .
29 On social and moral issues , such as school prayers , the Equal Rights Amendment ( for women ) , and abortion , the ‘ hard ’ positions of Reagan and the Moral Majority were in a minority .
30 We need people who are not only economically literate , but politically and socially literate , well informed about and sensitive to crucial social and moral issues ; we must be developing a society whose members are aware and tolerant of others and manifest concern for their welfare .
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