Sentence examples for understood societies from inspiring English sources

Yet the trials that he describes so amusingly in "Joyriding in Riyadh" reveal as much about one of the world's least understood societies as do the kindness and friendship he also receives.

As their role came to be understood, societies instituted a wide array of supports to help them — legal innovations like limited liability and joint stock ownership, financial innovations like I.P.O.'s, bonds and venture capital, and intellectual innovations like management consulting and business schools.

He understood society and criticized society; he was very clear".

He really understood society, and he understood it through his own pain," Mosley says.

In any venue, without a code of conduct that's either expressed or implicitly understood, society doesn't operate in a civil and productive way.

Crime and punishment are such emotive issues because they are central to how we understand society.

She would come to understand society's limits as touching all our lives.

He stood alongside women, sex workers and lepers, and changed many of the ways in which we understand society.

Other hobbies once thought of as unfashionable, such as family history research, have now been recognised as an important way to understand society.

Dr. Perkinson, who teaches at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said that Mr. Colson's conservative faith may help inmates understand their own failings, but that it does little to help them understand society's.

After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the tone of the government's approach was to try to understand society's ills and act on what was termed France's "social and ethnic apartheid".