Sentence examples for Social dictates from inspiring English sources

However, a small but tenacious movement has been defying these social dictates.

In Saudi Arabia, a combination of geographic isolation and repressive social dictates has discouraged applications and left in place an unqualified staff, according to a new study by the General Accounting Office.

Most seriously, in Beauvoir's view, psychoanalysis allots to women the same destiny of self-division and conflict between subjectivity and femininity that follows from social dictates and biological norms.

These social dictates give men control over sexual decisions and often leave women unable to alter disease risk.

I understand, a little, the social dictate to not stare at misshapen people: you want to spare their feelings.

In many countries, social convention dictates a pattern in which males at marriage are slightly older than their spouses.

Social convention dictates that the gowns are never to be seen again on the original wearer, a notion that grated against the romantic and practical sensibilities of a group of married San Francisco women.

Convention – as protected by Debrett's, the arbiter of British social etiquette – dictates that letters to the Prince of Wales should be signed thus: I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your Royal Highness's most humble and obedient servant.

In an age where social media dictates that we all look happy whether or not we are, any marriage that appears otherwise is, unfortunately, cause for many to feel embarrassment should word ever get out.

African social traditions dictate that relatives should take them in.

It is a means of preserving a social equilibrium dictated by the powerful.