This has prompted considerable societal regulation of research and commercial exploitation of GM trees (Brunner et al. 2007).
Dickens draped his tale of Coketown, a fictional Victorian factory city, with contempt for a wide range of societal ills: rampant industrialization and pollution, worker exploitation and widening income gaps, even England's rigid divorce laws.
Children living in urban slums find that their economic disadvantage makes them the object of societal prejudice, leaving them more susceptible to exploitation and drug use.
Darker and more complex reminiscences informed "Anatomy of a Korean Moke (Part 1)" by Miki Kim, which began as personal family history and then expanded to define patterns of societal emasculation caused by war, racism and economic exploitation.
Disconnected from societal norms and increasingly vulnerable to violence, sexual exploitation and political opportunism, children and young people easily turn to crime and armed conflict as a mode of survival.
"Both the volume and velocity of reports received concerning the sexual exploitation of children is increasing, as is societal appetite for such materials.
It was a downer, but the audience found a restorative within the hour in Mr. Feagin's presidential address, a paean to "societal usefulness," chock-full of condemnations of racism, sexism, exploitation, domination, resource inequality, environmental degradation and other sins.
In contrast, rational volcanic hazard forecasts fully and explicitly account for the uncertain nature of both volcanic processes and the evolution of a volcanic system, thus maximizing the exploitation of diverse knowledge and expertise for societal benefits.
Walker is a consummate storyteller, ably weaving conservation issues, politics, societal mores, international wrangling over treaties, anthropology, history, third world exploitation and slavery into a solid framework in which the history of the elephant and its compelling dentin tusks is a heartbreaking focus.
Trump's exploitation of race as a political wedge aggravates other societal fissures.
