How to Use social contract in a Sentence

social contract

noun

• The social contract that defined the United States in the 1950s is gone.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2017
• Read the memo on the need for a new social contract here and the memo outlining their 12 ideas here.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the space entrepreneurs emerging in the ’90s had soured on this postwar social contract.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• That is the most basic social contract that humans have.
  — Rachel Seo, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• The regime must have sensed that something was amiss, that the social contract Batka had relied on for so long was fraying.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• But Saunders rejected the notion that the Mohawk deal is at odds with the social contract.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2017
• The region’s social contract, which promised a decent job to anybody who wanted one, has been ripped up.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Tax is one lever to rebuild social trust and the social contract between a state and its citizens.
  — Malcolm Turnbull, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• British attitudes to breaking rules, notably rules that are seen as part of a social contract, can be stern.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• The shift strikes at the party’s longstanding social contract with its people.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• Is this a case of a woman being held responsible for the social contracts of a couple?
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
• In countries rich in oil and gas, consumer subsidies are often part of the social contract.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• The social contract in America has rarely been so tested.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• There’s an implicit social contract to not only enter but to hold the door open for others.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 31 Aug. 2024
• The crypto world and the Afrikaner right share the rhetoric that the end is nigh: The financial system is fallible, the social contract unstable.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• The Wuhan conronavirus threatens this social contract in two ways.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
• Which is why there’s a lot to learn from the adult film world, where performers are arguably the most adept at navigating sex’s social contract.
  — Rae Witte, GQ, 29 Mar. 2018
• Amy Qin on how the coronavirus epidemic in China is testing the state’s social contract with the people.
  — Megan Twohey, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Stepping onto a plane with a few hundred strangers is a sacred social contract: Middle seat gets the armrests.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2023
• In the bubble that is his program, Tucker won’t worry too much about the social contract between college football and those who love it.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2020
• But, this is only actually a win if the new social contract is honored.
  — Ashlee Fowlkes, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• The social contract in Saudi Arabia included a one-way flow of money, from the government to the people, up until two years ago.
  — Abdallah Fayyad, The Atlantic, 11 June 2020
• Welcome to the world of Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund, who takes some wicked pot shots at the business of art but more broadly ponders the breakdown of the social contract among all people.
  — Chicago Reader, 12 Oct. 2017
• The social contract between Russian artists and the government has existed for years.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• Drug addiction and suicide are soaring, locals say, as the social contract strains.
  — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub and Dalia MartÍnez, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
• Universities are part of a social contract in this country.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2024
• From the perspective of the motley resistance, Myanmar could be on the cusp of rewriting its social contract along federal lines.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• All of this has led to a huge shift in the US social contract, from one in which supports are based on poverty — often limited to deep poverty — to one in which programs are based on need and children.
  — Mark Schmitt, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• Schools have shuttered their doors for the past year and with this closure, an Integral cornerstone of the American social contract has been broken.
  — Chronicle Digital Team, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
• Ukraine’s political classes are also sensitive to the country’s implicit social contract: the harder the state pushes and the stricter the rules that are enforced, the more chance there is that the Ukrainians will rebel and disobey.
  — Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024