Sentence examples for Propagation of ideas from inspiring English sources

For the first time in the Germanic world, writing could be used for the propagation of ideas.

Although convinced that the free propagation of ideas was more important than specific reforms, he was an early advocate of almost all the Radical causes of his time, including the abolition of monarchy, completely secular education, and the emancipation of women.

It occurred to me that having 50,000 people download the free eBook from a website -- in terms of the propagation of ideas and understanding -- is not much different than having 50,000 people buy the book in printed format.

The result, in our still deferential ­society, is the propagation of weird ideas.

It is not merely an insistence that religious believers should keep the propagation of their ideas within the rules of the democratic system.

The democratic possibilities in the Koran are most intensively studied at Islamic studies centers in Europe and the United States, not in the many Arab states where the propagation of democratic ideas can lead swiftly to prison.

It is a modern, angular, concrete hulk where Soviets and Afghans gathered for lectures, films and the propagation of modernizing ideas that for a while refashioned Kabul, including a time when women could work outside the home in Western clothing.

But the moves could also affect international schools in China, which have been facing growing scrutiny as part of a push to counter the propagation of western ideas, and the flow of Chinese students to higher education institutions in countries such as the US and Britain.

Regardless of the university, the propagation of such ideas continues to stir controversy, and related research will be attacked and diminished beyond healthy skepticism.

"The religious authorities [in Saudi Arabia] have a real stranglehold on the propagation of free ideas in society," explains Coogle, the Human Rights Watch Middle East expert.

History of philosophy classes have their place, and one could argue that they, like history classes more generally, aim to equip their students (and, by extension, those who end up specializing in the field) with a mastery of the evolution and propagation of various ideas, at various times and places.