Sentence examples for private societies from inspiring English sources

The first nightclubs started as private societies to evade curfew restrictions.

Private societies that become obsessed with their own internal divisions add no value to public debate or justice.

— "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You," by Amy Bloom "The conversation. . . was not especially witty or eloquent; it seldom is in private societies or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels".

We all love those stories about private societies where people succumb to peer pressure and do crazy things.

The status of the volunteer units was further complicated by their origins as private societies; they received some central funding, but were mostly supported by local subscriptions and the generosity of their commanders.

In February 2011, Wesleyan targeted the Beta house when it announced, "Students will be prohibited from residing in - or using for social activities - houses or property owned, leased or operated by private societies that are not recognized by the university".

That's when the idea of a private society struck.

It was wonderful, but it worked because it underlined our exclusion from this strenuously private society.

The French Academy also started as a private society of men of letters some five years before its incorporation in 1635 under the patronage of Cardinal de Richelieu.

The community has also been criticized as a private society that blocks public access to the beach, and a blight whose septic tanks threaten the water.

In 1858 he bequeathed the lot to the Philadelphia College of Physicians, a private society, which during the coming decades added yet more curios to fill the museum's distinctly Vincent Price-like interior of polished wood cases, burgundy curtains and brass lamps.