He added that this would help create 'a more cohesive and stable social fabric'.

If the government wants better rounded citizens, it should look to the educational system and our social fabric, not to the ministry of defence.

Of course, many people do this, but only a tiny handful are celebrated for it, are seen as indispensable threads in the social fabric.

The whole social fabric of our world would be mended at a stroke.

But the malign effects of their actions on the rest of the population and the social fabric are insufficiently described.