Sentence examples for societal changes of from inspiring English sources

The park was a symbol of community autonomy and self-determination that many feel must be preserved as a touchstone of the historic societal changes of the times, and as a memorial to victims of the police action in 1969.

The poor climate may been one of many factors contributing to societal changes of the era, including widespread crop failures and famines in Central Asia that may have triggered migrations from the area to China and Eastern Europe, thus helping spread an episode of plague (depicted in this 15th century painting) that originated there.

You may already have an inkling of what this is going to mean, because you've watched some old TV show that has been overtaken by societal change of one sort or another.

"If we could make a major societal change of heart about the importance of the early experiences of children, we could have a profound impact on our entire society," he said.

Although Neil Young's Ohio is the famous cultural result, I always think of George Segal's sculpture "Abraham and Isaac" (next to the Chapel) and Dylan's Highway 61 ; Kent State's searing aftermath was a societal change of biblical proportion.

Ultimately, the death penalty will not die without a societal change of heart.

But continuing to right legal and systemic inequities, it seems to me, is a prerequisite for a larger societal change of heart.

Pentti Malaska, a Finnish Futures Researcher, based his theory of societal change on the idea that societal forms build upon one another as a succession of needs that remain unfulfilled by the previous stage of development.

First, he believes many NGOs have not recognised that changing the legal status of companies "is actually the single most important and urgent underlying societal change to achieve many of their diverse goals".

While the issue of the extent of underreporting remains unresolved, there was also some indication of societal changes affecting the reporting of violence, which can be seen in the patterns of reporting and milder forms of violence experienced by better educated women.

Many health co-benefit analyses characterize the health impacts of societal changes, such as widespread adoption of active transport policies or significant shifts in consumption of animal products, without a detailed consideration of how implementation might occur (e.g., Friel et al. 2009; Woodcock et al. 2009).