Sentence examples for distinctive societies from inspiring English sources

Also popular were myths of fairylands, such as the Garden of the Hesperides (in the far west) or the land of the Hyperboreans (in the far north), or encounters with unusual creatures, such as the Centaurs, or distinctive societies, such as the Amazons.

A strong blend of Polynesian and European heritage has a created a distinctive society, characterized by neighbourliness, self-help, and barter.

The Mondrian image of a world divided into distinct societies, each with it own distinctive moral values, makes it difficult to account for these considerations.

What then is distinctive of societies with legal systems and, within those societies, of their law?

It's another to create a society, with a distinctive order and a set of embedded bargains regarding who gets how much of what.

These communities did not constitute as was claimed by the Chicago school of sociologists of the 1930s (see Robert E. Park)—a distinctive "folk" society that overly influenced the cultural orientation of the mainstream rural French Canadian Catholic society.

The show carries a distinctive Main Line society cachet while it packs the aisles with casual weekend gardeners and other enthusiasts who, in winter's third month, simply need to spend a day inhaling the scents of bloom and loam.

The No More War Movement was distinctive among peace societies in advocating actual resistance to war.

Does the physical and psychological fact of homosexuality entail a distinctive place in society?

"What I think is happening in our society, distinctive locales are disappearing," she said in a recent interview.

A Harvard spokesman, Kevin Galvin, added, "The university has traditionally maintained a strong presumption against divesting stock for reasons unrelated to investment purposes," preferring that the college make its "distinctive contributions to society" through its "research and educational activities".