The decision to sell the survivors as slaves in the Bahamas was a societal response and not a personal choice.

Generally, environmental indicators provide information on pressures on the environment, environmental conditions and societal responses.

Perhaps the societal response has been the emergence of social networks.

Still, the discussions about the law have underscored some subtle shifts in the societal response to domestic violence.

However, the use of the criminal justice system to combat use of drugs should be used as a "societal response of last resort."

Richard B. Rood has been writing blogs on climate change and societal response since 2007, with new entries on a weekly basis.

Visionary scientific leadership is essential to ensure that the societal responses to these events are informed instead of reactionary.

He claims that successful societal responses to crime are those which bring about the reintegrative shaming of the offender.

The 'societal response' seemed to determine the outcome in much the same way, if not more so, as social and economic variables in sociological positivism.

Finally, there are indicators, such as the number of people serviced by sewage treatment, which track societal responses to environmental issues.