Six thousand people a year are slaughtered on British roads alone, an exercise in socially sanctioned mass murder which causes comparatively little comment.

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned.

All this is widely socially sanctioned, so we can hardly describe ourselves as 'animal lovers'.

How do you compare the development of an inner life to the socially sanctioned denial that such a thing exists?

And still others arise from street-wise bartering that may be as socially sanctioned in some neighborhoods as it is illegal.

"Then it's a socially sanctioned device to express the wishful thinking of a whole society," I retorted.

He notes that accusations of socially sanctioned cannibalism in a society typically arise from an alternative society with whom they are often in conflict.

"There should be socially sanctioned electronic ashrams, where you could check in for a few days."

Through it, quasi-religious sentiment has gained a socially sanctioned place within the public realm.

Most important, it is to deny ourselves the only socially sanctioned target for the anger and frustration obeisance to the communal laws brings.