Sentence examples for societal question from inspiring English sources

"That's really a social and societal question.

This fact alone prompts an unsettling societal question: why are we so enamored of child prodigies?

This begs a societal question about how much a constant barrage of negative NHS stories could damage our feelings about our heritage, our society and our country.

"Surely the most important societal question economics can help answer is why so many people are crushingly poor and what can be done about it," David Romer, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said.

Finally, it raises a larger moral and societal question tied to the controversial idea of "reparations": if we admit to the damage that our society causes people on the losing end, what responsibility do we have to repair it?

The research "really is novel and addresses an important societal question, especially given the growing interest in developing nuclear energy worldwide," says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina in Columbia who studies Chernobyl-area wildlife.

She is interested in artificial societies, a fledgling field where researchers use computer modeling to study societal questions, and a field where programming ability is essential.

So politicians of all stripes need to come up with a coherent response to the profound societal questions raised by climate change.

This statement seems to get to the heart of why scepticism is such a slippery concept: so much of it is bound up with (or even indistinguishable from) broader societal questions where there is no right or wrong answer.

"As long as it never works then we don't have to talk about regulation, but in 10 years' time if it has progressed to the stage where it might be possible then there are serious ethical, legal and societal questions to answer," he said.

Re "For Lolo Jones, Everything Is Image," Aug. 5: In his column about the Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones, Jeré Longman raises complex societal questions about gender equality in sports, athletes in the news media, self-revelation by public figures, even beauty and sexuality.