Sentence examples for societal power from inspiring English sources

Within the Nigerian context, it is the punishment for wishing to be independent, for daring to threaten the status quo, the societal power dynamics.

Nearly a hundred years since women won the right to vote, their political and societal power is still only a fifth of what it should be – if the most influential space in major newspapers is any indicator.

A prevalent theory in kink communities is that BDSM creates a sandbox or play space around impulses that have their roots in sexism or other prejudice, consensually mirroring non-consensual societal power dynamics.

Awarding the prize to the EU illustrates how the Norwegian Nobel Committee repeatedly appoints recipients that are irrelevant and who only serves to consolidate an already well-established societal power structure.

That earlier documentary is not about the Rolling Stones but about the concert itself, about the bad meshing of the power of their music with societal power systems, with infrastructure and with the lack of it; it's about the dying myth of total liberation.

This also means we address the forces at play in general, that is: the societal power structures, interests and relationships underpinning the field.

For Hegel, in the progress of "spirit", the individual consciousness will eventually move from this condition of sincerity to a condition of baseness, in which the individual becomes antagonistic to external societal powers and achieves a measure of autonomy.

It is critical to broadly understand local conditions and sustainable biofuels implementation before determining development options specific to different biophysical, environmental, societal and power settings.

On a societal level, power imbalances with gender norms supporting male dominance in families facilitates violence against women (23).

In case of domestic violence most of the episodes are unreported; the reasons are both personal (embarrassment, fear of retaliation, economic dependency) and societal (gender power imbalance in society, family privacy, victim-blaming attitudes) [ 8].

In one column, Loucks insisted that, under apartheid, South Africa had been a "powerful nation with a thriving, diverse economy" but that after the white government lost power, "societal descent set in".