Sentence examples for societal failure from inspiring English sources

That they are not applied is a societal failure.

Systemic societal failure that has multiple problems — newspapers are not designed to understand it".

"Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve.

The linking of a high rate of single-parent families to "societal failure" by Brown, who is himself African American, is likely to cause controversy among some black Americans.

The end result was that, in the minds of impressionable students like myself and my classmates, drugs were a defect rather than a symptom; a moral rather than societal failure.

Gallup's writers suggest that our societal failure to recognize the difficulty of staying at home and raising children contributes to the emotional differences — and adds, wisely I think, that if it is the prohibitive cost of child care that is keeping a mother at home, then her "choice" was not really much of one — never a circumstance that contributes to happiness.

Mr. Perry accused those who had responded to recent tragedies by proposing tighter gun restrictions of "playing politics" and erroneously blaming weapons for societal failures.

She integrates an inward, deeply compassionate depiction of a woman who is the victim of rape with an incisive view of the many societal failures that contribute to the crime, including legal failure to face the prevalence of rape, and the over-all prudishness and sexual censoriousness that make the crime unspeakable in the literal sense and end up shaming the victim.

Instead, they will be offered a notion that in the modern West, science is something personal — having to do with how we act and feel, how we communicate or fight disease — and that its major preoccupation with environmental issues is the consequence primarily of technological or societal failures.

Motivated by a history of major commercial, environmental and societal failures or disasters, the product and process life cycle is underscored by the application of risk management principles.

It is hard to imagine a position more consistent with the underlying rationale for American securities law, which was based upon the belief of the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis that "sunlight is the best of disinfectants" for market and societal failures.