Sentence examples for conflicting ideals from inspiring English sources

This balancing act between conflicting ideals echoes what Americans tell pollsters they want.What will the effect be?

McKeown and Hudes brainstormed conflicting ideals of motherhood, and McKeown set their phrases to a tricky compound beat.

Mr. Levinson has written an absorbing history of one company's amazing rise — and what such success means in a nation with conflicting ideals about big business.

We interpret the contradictions and initial unwillingness to discuss discretionary choice as a sign of conflicting ideals, of which the participants are either conscious or not.

Qualitative work with adolescent girls in Agincourt has identified conflicting ideals regarding body shape ("with or without curves") as an inhibiting factor for physical activity in this group [ 75].

Do not allow yourself to be caught in self doubt and conflicting ideals which others try forcing onto you.

44 45 Park argued that this conflicting ideal of gender equality and Confucian tradition may be one plausible reason for the recent rapid increase in young women's suicides.

If, as others have argued, we mapped political realities rather than conflicting political ideals, Google might have marked Palestine as an occupied territory, rather than as an independent state.

In his later works, however, Hare defends a more ambitious view, which purports to solve all moral conflicts, including conflicts between ideals, by treating conflicts of ideals as simply another kind of conflict among preferences, which moral reasoning can resolve (Hare 1981).

Citizenship laws are a product of politics, and, as the political scientist Rogers Smith argued in his magisterial study, "Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History," the contraction of citizenship closely tracks with the realignment of political parties.

They experienced being torn by conflicting demands when ideals and reality clashed.