social order

Example Sentences

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"If the Cuban economy and social order collapses, it would actually be a disaster for the United States, because it's likely to touch off a mass migration crisis," the professor said.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

At the same time he is seen as loyal to Thailand's traditional social order -- a stance that resonates with many in a still largely conservative society.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

In this academic setting a consensus emerged, as the legal scholar Henry Sumner Maine argued, that sacrifice had been the basis for social order and political association.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

When African Americans migrated west, L.A. was wide open, a physical and spiritual landscape with space to build the social order anew.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

Thus in the late 1960s and early 1970s, two schools of thought were offered to the general public regarding race, poverty, and the social order.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander