Are "total top" and "total bottom" purely socially constructed roles?
The film was more popular than most government-promoted films touting the party line and Lu claims that it had "tremendous social support", but Pang points out that its success was "not purely egalitarian, but partly constructed".
It didn't matter what I said to the contrary because in Jamaica, race is more purely a construct of skin tone.
"While Alice Orsini undoubtedly shares similarities with Iris Origo," he writes, "it is important to stress that the former is a purely fictional construct.
The "state with provisional borders" envisaged in the road map is a purely Sharonist construct, one that Sharon himself has long proposed as part of his strategy of containing and ultimately bending the Palestinian national movement to his will.
While string theory is still a vibrant area of research that is undergoing rapid development, it remains a purely mathematical construct because it has yet to make contact with experimental observations.
While the demand for autonomy is a purely psychological construct, the economic tradeoffs involved in its achievement are eminently amenable to quantification and analytical modeling characteristic of economic analysis.
Since at least the days when Frederick Law Olmsted threw out most of what grew wild in Central Park and replaced it with his vision of what a cultivated urban oasis should be, the definition of "natural" in New York City has been a purely social construct, Mr. Stern said -- an invention of the people who lived here.
This good fit is practically useful, but intellectually not very satisfactory, because the familiar or Forward Weibull distribution is a purely empirical construct and there have seemed to be no reasons, grounded in either atmospheric physics or probability theory, why wind speeds should conform to this model.
Although often viewed as a purely environmental construct, perception of social support may be influenced by genetic factors.
Gay marriage is still about defining an emotional commitment between people, but the Apple "family" is a purely economic construct whose defining characteristic is the clarity of the resulting data and the ease of revenue growth!
