Sentence examples for societal collective from inspiring English sources

Now when someone points out that my definition of a word is incorrect, I can say, "Who says that Merriam Webster is correct?" And the eggheads will say, "John Locke's treatise on social contracts theorizes that we have to have certain agreements in place to maintain a societal collective... .. to which I can respond: "There's that 'theory' word again".

To do that, we need to locate the problem on a societal and collective level, rather than obnoxiously berating those who display a French flag or mourn the Parisian dead.

On a societal or collective level, this process must also involve a change in culture which, as we all know, is easier said than done.

"Dealing with challenges like that is a collective societal responsibility that cannot be delegated to the judiciary"."Dealing with challenges like that is a collective societal responsibility that cannot be delegated to the judiciary," he added.

In the Gulf, the overwhelming tendency has been toward preserving the collective societal fabric, one that does not tolerate unfettered dissent.

Let's say further that we agree that maybe saving for retirement is better addressed as a collective, societal issue rather than an individual one.

When a valuable community service is forced to close, there is a collective societal and financial responsibility to structure a replacement service as an alternative for the public good.

The subject of the film is Lady Susan's carefully but boldly wrought self-liberation — and the collective, societal liberation that sweeps outward from her quiet but decisive defiance.

Speaking to the BBC's Martha Kearney at the Hay Festival on Sunday, the author said he had become fascinated with the idea of "societal memory and collective forgetting" when writing his new novel The Buried Giant, his first book in a decade.

They are keenly aware of the oddity that two women, partners no less, have become architects of the modern gay scene in Lahore; if gay and bisexual men barely register in the collective societal consciousness of Pakistan, their female counterparts are even less visible.

With regard to both individual (personal) and collective (societal) spheres, negative images of old age dominate public debate.