Sentence examples for societal basics from inspiring English sources

Like free speech, human rights and any number of other societal basics, private enterprise in China is vibrant and open to outsiders, but only as long as it does not threaten the state's interests.

Shamanism was common, and the family was the basic societal unit.

Second, the state law was enacted to protect a basic societal interest, not a favored group.

Although the quote was made in a different context, it perfectly conveys the basic societal concern about any state surveillance.

But beginning in 2010, Mr. Loughner's mostly private struggle with basic societal norms tipped into the public settings of the classroom, the library, the campus.

We operate from a basic societal consensus that it isn't the responsibility of individual citizens to balance the government's budget.

Hats off to Jason West for his sensitivity, his maturity well beyond his years and his efforts to recognize the importance of the most basic societal values of tolerance, acceptance and love.

"How does one find forms capable of challenging the orthodoxies of 20th century art, as Alexandra Harris does in Romantic Moderns, or interrogate basic societal assumptions, as Kathryn Schulz does in Being Wrong.

The program prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond university laboratories and accelerates the economic and societal benefits of basic-research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization.

The conception of human rights as natural rights (as opposed to a classical natural order of obligation) was made possible by certain basic societal changes, which took place gradually beginning with the decline of European feudalism from about the 13th century and continuing through the Renaissance to the Peace of Westphalia (1648).

Is your toddler embarrassing you with his or her inability to grasp basic societal concepts?