But in a society used to seeing the rules bent, it is precisely Mr. de Souza's rectitude that seems to have made him a celebrity.

Violent crime has been steadily increasing, jolting a society used to leaving doors unlocked and children to play without fear.

But protests like today's showed the strains that such savings impose on a society long used to generous Government benefits.

When he tried to imagine growing up in a society not only used to, but expecting such treatment from their rulers- he could scarcely imagine the long-term psychological effects.

It is a society used to dealing with beachcombers, who have all the time in the world.

There have been many attacks on our society the trade used by taking our finances and yet, by their economic mistakes and profitization, we, the ordinary working people, pick up the bill.

However, the radicalism of those first Modernists couldn't last for long in a society used to traditional fashions, and the original core members had separated by 1929, pursuing individual paths.

Mind altering and addictive drugs were heavily regulated by the various societies, being used only for religious purposes.

These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society, used to oil the wheels of social and political activities (Huggett 1982 and forthcoming).

He lacked political talent, however, and his forceful style of government clashed with a colonial society used to ordering its own affairs.