Sentence examples for defining idea from inspiring English sources

Putin's defining idea has long been anti-Americanism.

He cannot boast a defining idea to rival Mr Livingstone's congestion charge, for example.

The only way, he said, was to persuade villages whose young people intermarried to abandon the practice simultaneously — the defining idea for Tostan.

The defining idea of liberal Christianity — that faith should spur social reform as well as personal conversion — has been an immensely positive force in our national life.

Whoever wins the election may have a chance to do something larger: propose a new defining idea for American foreign policy.

Pakistani nationalism has also had the built-in advantage of Islam as a defining idea; this form of identity politics has proved to be dangerous, but also more unifying than not.

She has chronicled the 20th century's utopian search for defining ideas — be they communism, feminism or psychology — and the fallout that such ideas have had on the lives of women trying to find an identity of their own.

What are defining ideas of citizenship education in the two countries?

Elektronic The Barbican Centre, London EC2 On paper, this must have seemed like a good, if somewhat loosely defined, idea.

But imaginations are limited when girls are given only a narrowly defined idea of what being a woman looks like.

"New Yorkers have a very defined idea of what they want out of coffee and a coffee shop," Mr. Nye said.