Example sentences of "social and [adj] issue " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boal was a successful barrister who combined staunch unionism with a left-of-centre position on social and economic issues . |
| 2 | A greater awareness of biological , social and economic issues in the context of formal education is required . |
| 3 | The national summarizes complex social and economic issues where the sources of fury are more obvious . |
| 4 | They are novels in which the main characters debate topical social and economic issues as well as fall in and out of love , marry and have children , pursue careers , make or lose their fortunes , and do all the other things that characters do in more conventional novels . |
| 5 | They propose broadly based agitation on social and economic issues but nowhere do they contain blueprints that correspond with the objectives , structure or activities of NICRA . |
| 6 | Craig had been monitoring developments within the republican movement since 1966 , when he had obtained intelligence from RUC , Garda Síochána and British sources about the IRA 's turn to agitation on social and economic issues . |
| 7 | ‘ Anti-statist ’ ideas of consumerism and individual citizen responsibility may be respectable enough , but government seems to have not much further to say — beyond a vaguely humanitarian appeal to the ‘ social market ’ : it develops as yet publicly no vision of coherent aims , no serious analysis of pressing social and economic issues , their territories and their boundaries , no perception of the system flexibility that could satisfy both ideology and the real national need for effective progress . |
| 8 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 9 | Supposing that we took the route to legalisation of cannabis , what larger scale social and economic issues may arise ? |
| 10 | In recent years US unions have not been inactive in the political sphere and have actually had a large degree of impact on influencing legislation concerned with broader social and economic issues ( Lewin , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | The churches in Africa are showing an increased awareness of social and economic issues . |
| 12 | While sectoral organizations have a critique of the society relating to the experiences and fields of interest of their membership the popular movement unifies around political , social and economic issues which are key to the crisis facing Philippine society . |
| 13 | There was also a great deal of debate about : the need to popularise knowledge , utilising aspects of working-class and popular culture in adult education ; the problem of linking adult education more effectively to social and economic issues in local communities ; the necessity for greater informality and flexibility in the provision of adult education ; the importance of community-based adult education initiatives ; the challenge of creating new educational ‘ networks ’ to provide a comprehensive community education service linking a range of education providers , formal and non-formal , to the needs and interests of working-class communities . |
| 14 | They decided to offer an alternative which , whilst concerned with collective efforts to improve social and economic conditions , would provide an education offering a real sense of achievement within an alternative curriculum linking local concerns with wider social and economic issues , hoping to provide an educational arm for the working class . |
| 15 | He also emphasised his concern that the FEC was not being included in the process of dissociation and had not been involved in discussions on social and economic issues with Slovenia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 19 | The shift in the labour pattern significantly reduced the tensions between the European and non-European and largely unskilled Jewish elements in Israel which during the 1960s was becoming a serious social and political issue since the latter grew faster demographically than the former . |
| 20 | I mean that is a serious social and political issue to which there should be in my submission a planning response . |
| 21 | Social and Community Planning Research , an independent , non-profit institute specializing in social surveys and social research , began conducting an annual survey to investigate public attitudes to a wide range of social and political issues . |
| 22 | The ‘ boy labour problem ’ was a feature of the larger social and political issues which dominated the Edwardian era , and obviously one that came to be taken seriously by contemporaries , in terms of the efficient functioning of the labour-market in general , and of specific problems deriving from the market , such as un- and underemployment , industrial training , casual and unskilled labour and , in the wider sphere , poverty and family morale . |
| 23 | The candidates will be asked to give their views on a variety of social and political issues including homelessness and poverty , the collapse of small businesses , the NHS and care of the elderly . |
| 24 | Conceptually , it is a term that is linked not to one social problem but to a host of economic , social and political issues . |
| 25 | The guild provided working-class women with an opportunity not only to escape domestic confines and meet informally in local branches , but to engage with social and political issues far removed from traditional religious and philanthropic pursuits . |
| 26 | The series encapsulated many of the important social and political issues of the time and therefore was not just an academic analysis . |
| 27 | The tradition thus has a double intent : on the one had it engages in the primary sociological task of describing and documenting the ‘ state of society ’ ; on the other hand it addresses itself to central social and political issues . |
| 28 | To be published monthly in English and Spanish , Latin American Ecumenical News covers a wide spectrum of church news from all denominations as well as social and political issues facing the region . |
| 29 | The Center is one of the few Christian organisations in Japan which are actively concerned with social and political issues affecting the life of the nation . |
| 30 | The Citizenship Foundation is currently organising a Youth Parliament competition and publishes Buzz , a termly magazine on social and political issues for ages 14-plus . |