social order

Example Sentences

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“But people are going to be on high alert for any kind of breakdown of social order.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Her lack of inhibition causes social order to collapse; outside the cinema, the reaction was just as intense.

From BBC

Later we’ll be treated to a restatement of the thought, in case anyone missed it: “A choral society shouldn’t mirror the social order. It should transcend it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

John Gutfreund had done violence to the Wall Street social order—and got himself dubbed the King of Wall Street—when, in 1981, he’d turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into Wall Street’s first public corporation.

From Literature

She’d just expressed most clearly and most loudly a view that turned out to be far more seditious to the social order than, say, the many campaigns by various New York attorneys general against Wall Street corruption.

From Literature