Sentence examples for supposedly advanced from inspiring English sources

So as with everything important in your financial life in our supposedly advanced society, the onus is on you to try to make a change.

But when it comes to routine, everyday bureaucratic abuse of "foreigners" — especially brownish ones with exotic names — there are increasingly frequent instances of the kind of ignorant, bullying, Kafkaesque, unaccountable stupidity that one more often associates with thug regimes than with supposedly advanced democracies.

They don't make war for political reasons, they don't rape, they don't create unstoppable oil spills or unleash nuclear weapons and kill themselves and many others in the name of religion or perpetrate genocides, they don't do any number of the heinous things our supposedly "advanced" species does.

3 When supposedly advanced European countries have laws as feeble as this, naturally the poor countries, with less to invest in law enforcement systems, tend to do little or nothing at all.

A signature theme of his work is the persistence of ancient urges in supposedly advanced societies.

Even in this supposedly advanced, equal and just society in the UK there is a 60% chance of escaping justice if you are a rapist.

Why has all of this happened in a supposedly educated, advanced community?

This is the point, even more important than fairness to customers and road safety – the scale of corporate irresponsibility in the supposedly ethically advanced West.

And in a country where local calls are free, having to pay both to make and receive calls on a mobile phone seemed unreasonable.The prospect of "third-generation" (3G) mobile phones which will supposedly offer advanced services such as Internet browsing and video looked like Europe's chance to capitalise on America's wireless confusion.

The "dignity" that supposedly attends advancing age – what the ancient Romans used to call otium cum dignitate – is, naturally, a tricky area for those who have not yet reached that generational plateau.

But even its greatest exponents now sound alarmed If you look at all the polls, 28 have put Remain ahead and 10 have put Leave ahead Robert De Niro in 'Dirty Grandpa' is reportedly too embarrassing to watch, but the 'dignity' that supposedly attends advancing age is, naturally, a tricky area.