Sentence examples for a social issues from inspiring English sources

Though it has become more socially progressive (today's winners are required to choose a social issues platform), and diverse (last year the first openly lesbian contestant competed), the pageant has always been maddeningly slow to evolve.

The pope is a social issues guy, more interested in themes like "traditional" family values, gay marriage and abortion than, say, helping the poor.

They don't have to join our group," said Kevin Danaher, a founder of Global Exchange, a social issues campaigner and one of the groups instrumental in igniting the protests in Seattle and Washington.

Did Mitch Daniels's June trip to Washington, during which he managed to irritate both neoconservatives (with talk of defense cuts) and social conservatives (by floating the idea of a social issues "truce"), quiet some of the buzz around the Indiana governor's candidacy?

The New Republic's Alec MacGillis takes issue with my argument, suggesting that the Obama White House doesn't have a social issues strategy at all: Douthat would have a very good point to make here about short and long term gains if what he was saying was, well, true.

The other sample themes include a social issues ad about Japanese nursery schools, an entertainment-focused one depicting paparazzi, a sports ad featuring high school baseball and sumo, a food ad showing tamago-kake-gohan (egg on rice) and, naturally, one about cats.

"This isn't even a social issue.

It is a social issue".

It's not about a social issue.

"It is a social issue, a development issue, and a social cohesion and social harmony issue".

"But this is a social issue, not a legal one.