Vital role By making power cheap and plentiful, the electric grid changed society, spurring the expansion of the middle class and the spread of mass culture.
Soft, crowded targets are plentiful in our free, open societies.
Which they are, but the violence has become so plentiful and graphic, we're numbing society's mind to it.
However, in the modern society, with access to plentiful resources year round, seasonality may conversely be a stress factor.
Artifacts from the early settlement era can be found throughout the region, favored in the past for its plentiful fauna, particularly the marine mammals providing subsistence for the early hunting societies.
Plentiful availability of food and less physically demanding jobs typical of industrialized and globalized societies are deemed to be the major determinants of the "obesity epidemic".
A common comment of ranchers is that if society would just pay them directly to raise endangered species ranchers could make them plentiful.
In the lush valleys east of the Mississippi River, societies grew increasingly dependent upon plants such as amaranth, sumpweed, sunflower, and squash; their plentiful seeds and flesh provided a rich and ready source of food.
Researchers from Stanford, Harvard and Princeton universities fed a generation of lab mice a diet very low in microbiota-accessible carbohydrates -- nutrients that are plentiful in the diets of agrarian hunter-gatherers but not in diets that are common in industrialized societies.
She blamed Christianity for "the perpetuation of a slave society", arguing that it dictated individuals' actions on Earth and offered poor people a false promise of a plentiful future in heaven.
