In contemporary modern society, the choice regarding how to live one's life is generally believed to be a free choice.
We're always being told that the consumer society offers choice and empowerment.
"The question of accepting or not that the full veil can be worn in public is a society's choice," they ruled on Tuesday.
Two of our upcoming productions – The Siege of Calais and The Wild Man of the West Indies – have very interesting things to say about history: about the sometimes contradictory claims of family and society; about choice and destiny.
With Ford resting on his "one colour as long as it's black" laurels, it took companies such as Chrysler to come along and realise that a true consumer society requires choice.
Thanks to the NHS, an astonishing group of surgeons, nurses, consultants and specialists, but also to our society's choice to invest in the possibility of life, without caveat or consideration of social position – thanks to these things he is alive, smiling and filling nappies with a vigour you wouldn't believe.
Most education experts say that in a consumer society where choices of all kinds abound, the trend toward more school choice, both within the public sector and outside it, is probably unstoppable.
Although specific problems differ in different societies, parental choice is at the heart of most successful solutions.
If people felt ambivalent, as Avishai relates, about their "society of choices" in the 1960s, what obscene fury could be mustered to match our own?
As the scale of production of modern industrial goods has increased in our society, the choices and decisions made by designers have increased in importance and impact.
When any elite gets out of control and makes egregious financial mistakes, which happens in many societies, the choice is either to rein it in or provide it with unlimited state backing.
