Sentence examples for Social tangles from inspiring English sources

My pal texted to say that she was in that most invidious of contemporary social tangles: someone was offering her a Kate Bush spare but she had already committed herself elsewhere.

If he cannot prove to himself that they have nothing to teach him, he will be in as much of a social tangle as the centipede who tried to work out how he moved 100 legs without tripping over himself.

That sounds a lot like the convoluted social tangle Facebook has created due to the privacy concerns of its users.

Vicars and curates, tradesmen's families edging up the social ladder, tangled marriage plots — for lovers of Barsetshire, it's all here.

SOCIAL WELFARE -- The tangle of agencies that work with the disadvantaged have no good way to share data.

The situation this seems most similar to is the inextricably tangled social nightmare that is inviting people to your wedding.

The most captivating part of the book sees Newton circulating through second-wave feminist and lesbian circles in New York and Paris, where the debates, social hierarchies, and tangled affairs she encounters bring her to a late coming of age.

This side was not without its own impassioned supporters, and soon India's fractious social media was tangled in thousands of bitter fights about whether Facebook was asking too much for the kind of progress it promised to provide.

They familiarized themselves with county social workers, and the tangles of the court system.

And Ali's experience there since her days of international celebrity shows how good intentions often shrivel in the face of class barriers, social pressures and the tangles of U.S. foreign policy ― as well as how fraught it is to use moments in non-Western lives to score Western political points.

The answer to the first question, at least, lies in a tangle of social, cultural and economic factors.