Example sentences of "which society " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the question which vice-chancellors have sought to raise — and this is the question to which society must , as a matter of urgency , respond . |
| 2 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 3 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 4 | The importance of good behaviour amongst pupils has been stated thus : ‘ Good behaviour is a necessary condition for effective teaching and learning to take place , and an important outcome of education which society rightly expects . ’ |
| 5 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 6 | The life may take a different form to that experienced by most of us , and may not be rewarding in our terms , or in the terms by which society judges these things . |
| 7 | Behind each cause lie assumptions about the way in which society does and should operate . |
| 8 | For Merton , such behaviour occurs as a result of a discrepancy or contradiction between the aspirations which society has socialised into its members ( the ends or goals ) and the way that is provided for the realisation of such aspirations ( the means ) . |
| 9 | It is a completely artificial emotion for which society , and in particular our parents are responsible . |
| 10 | It will always be hard for the courts to distinguish between what is harmful and what is merely unpleasant or challenging , but it is a task which society must confront for its own good . |
| 11 | The concept derives from an assertion by an individual against the rest of society , ; since we are social animals and essentially interdependent , we voluntarily ( or is it involuntarily ? ) surrender some of the autonomy of solitary existence in return for the support which society can give us . |
| 12 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 13 | Images are powerful and subliminal , and this one was quite discriminatory as it projected precisely that Family of which society so approves . |
| 14 | For the Marxist , history is a process in which society is transformed from a primitive state through slavery , feudalism , capitalism , socialism and finally communism . |
| 15 | An anti-poverty programme therefore is an insurance premium which society has to pay to stop politicians and intellectuals from demanding greater government intervention in the workings of the market place . |
| 16 | Thus it questions the values of the existing order of ‘ better ’ , ‘ useful ’ , ‘ appropriate ’ , ‘ productive ’ and ‘ valuable ’ and is ‘ wholly distrustful of the rules of conduct with which society as presently constituted provides each of its members ’ ( Horkheimer 1972 : 207 ) . |
| 17 | In The Social Contract ( 1762 ) Rousseau had advocated such a religion , to be maintained by the state , and to include five articles of faith : the existence of a divinity who is omnipotent , intelligent and benevolent , and who foresees and provides ; the future life ; the happiness of the good ; the punishment of the wicked ; and the sanctity of the ‘ social contract ’ ( on which society itself is based ) and of the law . |
| 18 | The Act which followed the report ( 1981 ) was seen by parents , by teachers and by members of the caring professions as marking the beginning of a new , radical approach to the way in which society responded to the needs of the handicapped child . |
| 19 | He went on to give an account of his education at Eton School and then at King 's College , Cambridge ‘ of which society I am at present a Fellow and from which University I have derived my medical Honors ’ . |
| 20 | The point of introducing this distinction between determination in the last instance and the structure in dominance is to combine the idea that the practices of which society is made up are mutually determining with the ultimate dominance of the economy . |
| 21 | There is not one form of adult status but a hierarchy which reflects the way in which society values different groups . |
| 22 | Activities , which society had previously disapproved of and banned , are now permitted and can be freely indulged in . |
| 23 | There is only one explanation of what has hitherto been accepted as the basis of the criminal law and that is that there are certain standards of behaviour or moral principles which society requires to be observed , and the breach of them is an offence not merely against the person who is injured but against society as a whole . |
| 24 | Or , as he put it slightly differently on another occasion , ‘ religion ’ is ‘ the system of symbols by means of which society becomes conscious of itself ; it is the way of thinking characteristic of collective existence ’ . |
| 25 | First , we need to ask : whose tradition ? which society ? |
| 26 | They are threatened by the spread of bigotry , but also by other conceptions of life — for example , those which look on originality , innovation , and diversity as luxuries which society can ill afford given the need for efficiency , productivity , or growth , or those which in a host of other ways depreciate freedom . |
| 27 | ‘ Pay For Your Pleasure ’ ( 1988 , MOCA , Los Angeles ) , one of the notable achievements in last year 's ‘ Metropolis ’ in Berlin , is a gallery of forty-two painted portraits of leading figures of modern civilisation with attributed comments about the licence which society gives to the artist . |
| 28 | Important , too , although not always easy to evaluate , is the evidence which we may call literary , not merely the chronicles , but rather the tracts , pamphlets , newsletters and even poetry through which people expressed their ideas and views , as well as their emotions , on contemporary issues and problems , which might be the need for government to be better managed , hope of peace , or the criteria according to which society 's military leaders should be chosen . |
| 29 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 30 | Many believe strongly in the need fo Japan to be different and to retain what they see as its own traditional modus operandi ; they are quite satisfied with the roles which society expects them to play . |