Example sentences of "social and [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dominant conceptions of inner-city public policy , breaking the cycle focuses on the issues of ‘ welfare dependency ’ and ‘ youth unemployment ’ : it does not include far-reaching and fundamental reorganization of social and economic life and the redistribution of income , wealth , and life-chances . |
| 2 | The memory of Churchill 's last premiership is suffused with a golden haze — the England of the Ealing comedies , of amelioration in social and economic life . |
| 3 | What he missed here was any consideration of the degree of resistance by the dispossessed classes and those sections of the population which follows them ; this surely is the determinant of the level and degree of violence necessary to reorganise social and economic life . |
| 4 | ‘ Accidents ’ , while they have effects on political , social and economic life , can not divert the trend of history . |
| 5 | In societies where the organization of social and economic life is based much more closely on kinship than it is for most people in contemporary Britain , women 's involvement in exchanging goods and services with female relatives plays an important role in maintaining the solidarity of the kin group . |
| 6 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 7 | His vision was indissolubly linked with the social and economic life of Brazil in the Sixties and the exhibition illustrates Oiticica 's brief but complex career , showing his fidelity to the theme of the human body and its relationship to space and objects . |
| 8 | A recognition of the worth of every human being , however obscure or impoverished , and a new stress on the positive virtues of the working poor , as well as their contribution to social and economic life — these were some aspects of the democratic spirit of the times , expressed by Wordsworth in many of his poems about the people of his native region , such as Resolution and Independence , Michael , and The Old Cumberland Beggar . |
| 9 | The belief that democracy meant government by the people , or at least by their accountable representatives , was premised on the assumption that governmental power was the power in society , that politics dominated over social and economic life , and that no factional power or interest group could successfully resist the legitimate might of the popular will . |
| 10 | Whether enforcement agents are concerned with air or water' pollution control , consumer protection , health and safety at work , housing , discrimination , wage and price control , or the many other areas of social and economic life now considered to be the law 's business , writers have observed a style of enforcement which seems to be predominantly conciliatory . |
| 11 | Agrarian History of England and Wales , vol. v , 1984 ; E. D. Bebb , Nonconformity and Social and Economic Life 1660–1800 , 1935 . ] |
| 12 | NOW entering its third year , Teesside Training and Enterprise Council has already made a significant contribution to the social and economic life of the region . |
| 13 | ‘ The University of Teesside will provide a focus for the further development of the cultural , social and economic life of the region . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hence , there is a necessary attempt , in order to bring in economic regulation , to construct a conservative recomposition of social and moral life . |
| 16 | Typically , a laudatory essay he wrote was called The Painter of Modern Life on the subject of the illustrator Constantin Guys ; this gifted if minor artist was accurately targeted by Baudelaire as being in the mainstream of contemporary social and political life . |
| 17 | It is difficult to divorce the changes taking place in the fabric of Danzig 's social and political life from the wider application of Prussian policies in the eastern marches . |
| 18 | In this decade of evangelisation it is important for the Church to ‘ teach publicly on moral issues and for its lay members to become more involved in the social and political life of the country … that all members of the Church should take part in the Church 's mission of bringing Christ to the world . ’ |
| 19 | Women are bound by their biological functions as child-bearers , and their lack of education no doubt acts to their detriment as full participants in social and political life . |
| 20 | In the 1950s , the elderly were described as ‘ passengers ’ , threatening to pull down the standard of living enjoyed by society as a whole ; they were a regressive element , dampening the ‘ initiative of youth ’ , and playing a conservative role in social and political life . |
| 21 | The exchange of raw materials and finished products in a society is an activity which is inextricably bound up with economic , social and political life . |
| 22 | The works , as one would expect , show great intensity , vigour and variety , some resonant with traditions of Russian folk art and story , others responding to contemporary events and recent changes in social and political life . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the economic development achieved by the turn of the century was sufficient to have a profound impact upon the social and political life of the Empire . |
| 24 | The epistemological model of truth and falsity which applies to formal statements of propositions turns out to be difficult to apply in the context of social and political life . |
| 25 | This is not , in fact , a single theory but an approach which sees racism on the outside of social and political life — sometimes the unwanted blemish is the neo-fascists , sometimes it is immigration laws , other times it is the absence of equal opportunities — yet racism is always located on the surface of other things . |
| 26 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , elite and pluralist theories locate power in areas of social and political life very different from those put forward in Marxist accounts . |
| 27 | But , then , the Francoist idea of parliament precluded discussion and dissent , in the same way that these two concepts were excluded from every area of social and political life under Francoism . |
| 28 | The Witte concessions in the October Manifesto were aimed to close the breech between the state and society and to close the gap between ‘ the inherited forms of Russian social and political life and the emergence of new forms of opposition ’ ( Sir Arthur Nicholson ) . |
| 29 | The idea that large sums of money must be awarded to compensate people for words which " tend to lower them in the estimation of right-thinking members of society " smacks of an age when social and political life was lived in gentlemen 's clubs , when escutcheons could be blotted and society scandals resolved by writs for slander . |
| 30 | He made a special point of seeking their opinion and their cooperation in everything he undertook on their behalf ; he believed in giving his deaf friends every opportunity of sharing in the organisation of the social and religious life of the Institutes in his care . |