Sentence examples for socially permissible from inspiring English sources

In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.

IS IT socially permissible to criticise fat people for being fat?

The arrest of the Happy dancers is only the latest in this long-running confrontation over what is socially permissible, or in the words of the Tehran police chief, "not obnoxious" in Iran.

Stem cells derived from embryos are at the forefront of the ethical and political debate, raising issues of which derivation methods are morally and socially permissible to pursue, as much as which are technically feasible.

Where it is generally no longer socially permissible to publicly ridicule or discriminate against gays or Jews or the handicapped, it is still acceptable to openly target the trans community. .

At home, China already has a problem with street defecation, which dovetails nicely with the endemic public-spitting problem that makes most visitors openly retch (thankfully, open-retching is also socially permissible).

The simplest way to put it is that slaughtering animals for their meat is a socially-permissible ethical transgression.

Slavery was for centuries socially-permissible (in spite of the fact that there was always a minority standing firmly against it).

I actually never did that stuff when it was socially more permissible to do them — not for lack of interest but for lack of funds.

There are too many schools with the power to decide which pupils they admit, too many socially selective admissions criteria permissible under the code of practice, and the system of "policing" admissions is too weak.

Being a bad, rebellious girl, in the style of Amy Winehouse or Lily Allen, may just about be permissible, but the socially defined limits of what is considered "sane" quickly narrow with the arrival of babies.