• In traditional Indian society, virginity before marriage is cherished and rape carries great stigma.

    BBC: Sarika (centre) with her parents

  • Keita descends from a noble line in Mali, and when he became a singer in the late '60s it was a serious violation of protocol in his traditional society.

    NPR: Salif Keita Savors 'La Difference'

  • So a demand arose for attracting attention of the Russians to the most important part of the Russian cultural heritage in the context of the world cultural traditions, increasing the status of traditional culture in the modern society and establishing a cultural dialogue between different peoples and regions of the world.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN MOSCOW

  • Those Muslims most acutely tormented by the collision of their inherited world with the modern world are, and not surprisingly as witnessed in similar circumstances with other people, members of the social elite educated in the traditional value system of their society and exposed to the currents of modern thinking.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In that fractured, querulous, society religion and certain aspects of traditional culture (such as female purdah in the Pashtun areas) remain the great touchstones for generating fellow feeling or indeed outrage.

    BBC: How Afghans will view Kandahar killing spree

  • In the context of hyper-religious traditional Mexican society, the authors say, the cases of the dead women were rarely investigated.

    FORBES: In Ciudad Juarez, NAFTA's Grisly Legacy

  • Vladimir Pastukhov has recently argued that Putinism as a historical phenomenon is much larger than Putin the man, and reflects the traditional estrangement in Russia between the state and society.

    FORBES: Richard Sakwa's Outstanding Analysis of the Putin System's Past, Present, and Future

  • Britain was re-evaluating many of the traditional power structures that had shaped society in the 1930s.

    BBC: Why does the UK love the monarchy?

  • At the same time seeing my family deal with the issues of racism, discrimination, and poverty in a community struggling with drugs and violence and the trying to raise a family in two cultures, our traditional culture and that of society, brought much pain and confusion.

    WHITEHOUSE: Out of Every Experience, You Can Gain a Lesson

  • As in other rapidly industrialising countries, economic change is undermining traditional society.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Indonesia: Not fair | The

  • However, women in India, a country that prides itself on being a traditional society, still face enormous pressure to conform to social mores.

    FORBES: India's Most Powerful Businesswomen

  • The Mosuo society in China, is both matriarchal and matrilineal and marriage in the traditional sense do not exist.

    FORBES: Russian Sex Slave Saga: The Ballad of Viktor and Olga

  • He does have a lot of popular support amongst certain segments of society, especially, I would say, in rural areas, or traditional religious families, and also maybe in the lower class levels.

    NPR: Reaction in Iran to Possible U.N. Sanctions

  • Before we answer this, one needs to revisit the American Economic Historian W.W. Rostow who in the sixties had suggested that countries passed through 5 stages of economic development as Traditional Society, Transitional Stage, Take-off, Drive to Maturity and High Mass Consumption.

    FORBES: India Likely To Replace Japan As World's Third Largest Economy

  • The second was that these traditional Labour supporters had no time for the prevailing view in elite Labour circles that the wickedness of society, rather than that of criminals, was responsible for most crime.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Abbey National, once a dull but solid British building society (thrift), moved into wholesale banking in an attempt to reduce its dependence on its traditional mortgage business, only to suffer big losses in high-yield credit and other novel businesses.

    ECONOMIST: Borrowed time

  • At first glance, the idea of "bitter money" looks like a legacy of a traditional society--a relic that has nothing to do with the way consumers and investors handle money in a modern economy.

    FORBES: Bitter Money And Christmas Clubs

  • Most striking is the complete absence of the traditional "ASCO effect, " the run-up in biotechnology stocks ahead of the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, which will be held in Chicago in early June.

    FORBES

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