Sentence examples for Social reckoning from inspiring English sources

On gay rights, localities and courts have dragged national politicians toward what would seem to be an inevitable social reckoning.

Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, which conducted the survey, described the results as a kind of "social reckoning".

He is putting his shoulder to the moral line that forbids embryo research and is trying to force some sort of social reckoning.

21, along with Jodi Kantor and Emily Steel, The Times journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein and Bill O'Reilly stories, for a discussion about the current social reckoning.

For others, it's more of a social reckoning as they ask themselves, 'What are my friends doing and thinking and how much does that matter to me?' They are adding up the pluses and minuses on a kind of networking balance sheet and they are trying to figure out how much they get out of connectivity vs. how much they put into it".

But since the court-ordered release of a police dashboard camera video showing Van Dyke shooting McDonald as he walked down a street holding a knife, the city has faced a political and social reckoning unlike any in recent decades.

But an official who deals with social security reckons there is probably only about 100 billion yuan in them.

Wolfgang Streeck at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, one of Germany's foremost social thinkers, reckons that things are getting worse rather than better.

Race relations have a greater capacity to inflame than any other social issue, reckons Derrick Campbell of Race Equality Sandwell, a local group.

"Let's all drink to a success even greater than we expected," urged Mr Lafontaine, with a cross between a smile and a snarl, as the Lower Saxony results came in.Many Social Democrats reckon they now have an all-but unbeatable election team.

In 1998 Sir Claus Moser, a social scientist, reckoned that 20% of adults could not use a telephone directory to find a plumber; his findings spawned an advertising campaign featuring gremlins, which implored viewers to banish their demons by gaining a qualification.