Sentence examples for complexion of the world from inspiring English sources

"Potosí made the money that irrevocably changed the economic complexion of the world".

If correct, it has changed the complexion of the world's top five economies, so that in order they are the US, China, Japan, Germany and Brazil, and confirms the increasing economic weight of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

The complexion of the world and of the United States has changed, literally and figuratively, and many people are just now aware of it.

At first I thought that you were not paying attention to the fact that the mental complexion of the world is becoming tanned, that multiculturalism and poly-ethnicity are driving new meaning as to what is culturally relevant.

Helping them get a more solid foundation and education can literally change the complexion of this world in the centuries to come.

The complexion of the art world was subtly but forever changed.

For many of southern Africa's young democracies, changing the complexion of the corporate world is the next challenge.

[C2.] The Challenge for Southern Africa For many young democracies in southern Africa, changing the complexion of the corporate world is the next challenge.

Sonnabend was part of a select group of women, she says, including Paula Cooper, Barbara Gladstone and Marian Goodman, "who had a radical effect on the climate and complexion of the art world, and who were my mentors".

Other avatars with varied complexions and facial features descend in other parts of the world.

The sight of Welles, as Arkadin, maneuvering like a big-time director of the world itself — all the while hiding behind a patently false beard and hairpiece and an artificially burnished complexion — is almost too painfully intimate to watch.