Sentence examples for a societal function from inspiring English sources

Blockchains have demonstrated that it is possible to provide a societal function, namely fiat money, that has so far required a central trusted party.

In an attempt to utilize the available space in a more efficient way, we designed Dutch arable production systems with a production, an ecological and a societal function, and tested systems differing in level of biodiversity in long-term field experiments.

True deterrence doctrine, according to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham, allows for the punishment of innocent individuals if doing so would serve a valuable societal function (e.g., creating and maintaining an image that crime is detected and punished so that others are deterred from crime).

A key societal function is under threat.

Because, if not wanting a family makes a woman a ball-breaker, wanting one makes you "needy" - as if it were a peculiar personal neurosis, and not an important societal function.

That solution, however, proved politically insensitive since it deprived the women of an important societal function.

At the very least, anyone that retweets a message will contribute to a really important societal function: witnessing and participating in public debate.

For example, we would expect a sizeable proportion of the 55.2% of participants in group 1, who did not allude to a political or societal function of egao, to contest the statement that "egao can critique official social or political discourses".

Each offers a window on a critical, if unglamorous, societal function; taken together, the group cuts across all manner of socioeconomic currents: old and young, rich and poor, rural and urban.

Except for "entertainment", all societal functions mobilise several maritime activities and, consequently, numerous research fields.

On a theoretical level, being perceived as a somewhat voluntary condition, the societal function of obesity stigma can be explained by a model of Phelan and colleagues [ 36].