(1) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(2) Family policies, together with changes in corporate labour practices, can reinforce changing mores, leading to greater (and more effective) female workforce participation.
(3) The mores that encouraged consanguineous marriages had the lowest final lethal-gene frequencies.
(4) "Social mores have moved on from the way in which we were brought up, with the values that we had.
(5) Peter Hyman, Blair's former speechwriter turned teacher and the coalition's most high-profile convert yet, plans to open a non-selective, all-ability, innovative comprehensive in the East End of London in 2012; while Sajid Hussain, the Oxford-educated son of a Kashmiri-born bus driver, hopes his King's Science Academy in Bradford will enable students to navigate their way through the strange mores of the English elite .
(6) Deep changes in mores and in the way infants are cared for occurred in the second half of the XXth century.
(7) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
(8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
(9) Because of the licence fee, the BBC has always had to think more profoundly than commercial broadcasters about how its output fits with contemporary mores.
(10) But she is against this law, because if a woman is raped, she will be treated worse than the man who raped her.” The intensity of the so-called “black protests” has proved tricky for Law and Justice, which presents itself as the guardian of traditional values in a country beset by liberal notions of multiculturalism, relaxed social mores and restrictive political correctness, but which remains mindful of the risks of alienating mainstream public opinion.
(11) Eight mores officers under investigation have been placed on administrative leave and have had their security clearance suspended.
(12) Normalising the more hardcore activities of pornography is a danger of the access, affordability and the anonymity of online sexual content, she says, but it's impossible to extract the internet's unique impact on the changing sexual mores when so many other media and corporate factors are at play.
(13) In peacetime, however, they resonated with a new generation of radicals – though he was not at ease with all the mores of the 1960s.
(14) Another Nigerian admirer of the novel spoke of its depiction of sexual mores and asked if there was any hope for progress in the assumptions about "gender relations" in Nigeria.
(15) Follow-up analyses of variance (ANOVAs) revealed a difference between anesthetists and community health nurses on one factor (parental sexual mores).
(16) The knowledge which geneticists have gained and will gain in future will raise numerous legal and ethical problems which will have to be debated and resolved within the parameters of the prevailing boni mores.
(17) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
(18) And, if we're being blunt, Peggy is a considerably more sophisticated, funnier and insightful about comparative social mores.
(19) Although just 100 miles from Delhi, the village is cut off from the hustle and mores of modern life.
(20) Educational efforts must address women and bisexual men who do not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV infection and should be specifically designed for the mores of different racial and ethnic groups.
Outwit
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(2) Plans to pursue a second appeal against HMRC come despite MPs on the Public Accounts Committee citing the pub group's scheme as one example of "an illegitimate game to outwit the taxpayer".
(3) The Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik gave Slovakia the lead after 24 minutes, outwitting his marker to slot home left-footed.
(4) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
(5) So was the sense that she had outwitted the oil industry.
(6) An untold truth is that we use a tiny fraction of each computer's capacity: you could say we're already outwitted by them.
(7) Fortunately for the Guardian, the paper was able to retain barristers who outwitted the government’s lawyers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diane James’ acceptance speech from 16 September In her acceptance speech, she promised to bring a new professionalism to the party, saying: “We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more.” But questions were raised about her commitment to the post after she declined to take part in hustings debates around the country with rival candidates.
(9) And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel consoles teenage refugee brought to tears Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of “the politics of baby steps”, either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
(10) Vincent Kompany and Martín Demichelis never truly nullified his nuisance value, outwitted as they were by canny centre-forward play.
(11) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
(12) They showed footage of Cruise as a soldier who dies and must relive events over and over until he cracks a way to outwit pesky aliens hell-bent on destroying earth.
(13) The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
(14) Even as he found himself discussing how England might look to outwit an opposing lineout whose locks are 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in tall respectively, though, he will be uncomfortably aware his side could rack up a century of points and still depart the tournament with tails between legs.
(15) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
(16) Outwitted in that first international by the veteran Irish centre-forward Dave Walsh, of Aston Villa, Charles's massive physique, 6ft 2ins and 15 stone, availed him little that day.
(17) We – civil society – have been co-opted into economic and institutional processes in which we are being outwitted and out-manoeuvred.
(18) He can’t take it that we’ve out-tactic-ed him and outwitted him.
(19) For Merkel, Juncker is also a liability, a fellow Christian Democrat she has been outwitted into reluctantly supporting for the top job in Brussels later this year.
(20) For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" , "uneducated" "underclass" who somehow managed to outwit the police for the best part of a week using new technology.