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I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.
Here in North Jersey, our Muslim community is essential to our social fabric.
Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.
Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.
The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.
As a 'parisien d'adoption,' I am only semicognizant of where I may fit at any given time into the French social fabric.
We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.
Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.
I feel Afghanistan has a very strong social fabric and sense of family... what I would like to do is encourage everybody in the country to appreciate more the role of women at home and outside.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States' economic and social fabric. Because of this long history, the bonds among our people and our cultures will remain strong.
Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.
Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.
There are days when I look at my news feed, and it seems like a social fabric of fun - a video of the first steps of my friends' baby! My nephew's prom date! On other days, it feels like a NASCAR vehicle, plastered with news stories, promoted posts, lame Live videos, and random content.
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.
Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.