Sentence examples for societal failures from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seeing the level of demand for sex is one thing, but bigger is our societal failures that are creating vulnerable populations.

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.