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  • adverb In a societal way.

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Examples

  • The therapeutic psychobabble that has become the default mode of our culture leads inevitably to the kind of societally dysfuntional and suicidal behavior we witnessed in the recent British confrontation with Iran; and which we witness almost daily now in our dealings with Islamofascism.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

  • The highest level of technology used in Ptolemaic Egypt was employed in support of religion, most likely to reinforce the existing social structure, and was never developed in ways that could be used by any sizable fraction of the society for societally productive goals.

    June « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. ā€“ The Official Website 2010

  • Usually fantasy-novel musicians seem to be entertainers or educators, playing nice societally-acceptable, dominant-morality-reinforcing music.

    Drugs and rock nā€™ roll « 2009

  • There was a psychic eruption in my mind and spirit that left acquired skills and native talent intact but shattered societally-imposed constraints and assumptions, subliminal or in-your-face.

    john bennett | one book « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • Managing stress inwardly, and participating in managing our lives, individual, family and societally, I'm suggesting, is a key to some sense of meaning, harmony and balance.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Socially-Conscious Stress Management Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • And having now established that a public good need not be necessary for national defense in order to be publicly-permissible, we can go about the grown-up work of debating which public goods are most societally-beneficial, and worthy of taxpayer support.

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama HSR Agenda Will Still Leave China With the Fastest Trains 2010

  • While this would be a more persuasive test, note it still runs into potential problems of endogeneity (that is, the decision by district A to institute a sports program is a result of more culturally tolerant attitudes towards women breaking out of societally sponsered norms).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Impact of Title IX 2010

  • I feel like individually and societally we are products of the past and the only way to improve upon where we are is to understand that.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Carleen Brice, Part 1 2009

  • Wellness Informatics is Human-Centered because it requires that those innovations are married with innovations in how the ICT communicates with the user, in ways that are psychologically, sociologically, culturally, and societally relevant ā€” without which wellness will not be promoted and sustained.

    Wellness Informatics « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2009

  • Managing stress inwardly, and participating in managing our lives, individual, family and societally, I'm suggesting, is a key to some sense of meaning, harmony and balance.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Socially-Conscious Stress Management Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

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