"society" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The speech included a reminder that the American story "is a story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom."
- This complicated and deadly piece of machinery seemed very much out of place with the primitive slave-holding society, and Jason wished that he could get a better look at the device.
- The area was settled by predominately by natives from the Southern United States, who brought the slave-holding cotton-plantation society with them.
- The story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom.
- Thus a very small percentage of humans had counted as true equals in slave-holding societies like ancient Greece or revolutionary America, and the circle of true equals had only enlarged a bit more in the later "capitalist democracies."
- Its description of America as "a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom" was a cleansing acknowledgment of America's original sin.
- Mr. Gerson's brand of concise, rhythmic and sometimes alliterative descriptions are at the heart of Mr. Bush's speeches, be it the Inaugural Address, with its musings on "a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom," or recent remarks at Catholic University.
- One reason The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains so affecting and so profoundly threatening is that Huck shows us what it meant to grow up in a slave-holding society and learn to navigate its pathologies.
- The point here is that miscegenation, in Brazil and in other former slave-holding societies, began as acts of dominance and not as an egalitarian principle that led to the erosion of unequal relations.
- For many centuries the Church was part of a slave-holding society.
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