Sentence examples for enlightened act from inspiring English sources

Catherine II's accession manifesto characterized her usurpation of the throne as a selfless and enlightened act of heroism to protect Russia from Peter III's despotism.

As Russia's Defense Minister, Sergey Shoigu, remarked last month, Russia's intervention in Syria "helped solve the geopolitical task of breaking the chain of 'color revolutions.' " Russian television, of course, covered the siege of Aleppo as an enlightened act of liberation, free of any brutality or abuses.

A writer heads off to Hollywood, gets rich and then, with his career secure, avenges himself on his employers by charging them with abandoning art and truth (except, perhaps, in their decision to hire him, which were left to infer was their last enlightened act before they gave themselves over to full decline).

Even Empress Catherine stayed true to her humble origins by cutting taxes on the peasants, an enlightened act in imperial Russia of the early 18th century.

It was an act of enlightened self-interest.

Pepsi seemed enlightened by the mere act of openly courting black consumers.

He introduced a profit-sharing scheme for his employees – an act of enlightened self-interest when capital was short in the early years of the West German economic miracle.

He said big pharma needed to act with "enlightened self-interest" because "if it gets really bad, somebody is going to come gunning for these guys just how people came gunning for finance".

2. The investigation into tattva (Tib. de kho na) seeks an essential identity (Sk. sva-bhāva, Tib. rang gi ngo bo/rang bzhin) in a unique thing (Sk. bhāva, Tib. dngos po), and the investigation into tathatā (Tib. de bzhin nyid) an essential reality (ātman, Tib. bdag) uniting all things, particularly as the known objects of a single act of fully enlightened knowledge.

The repetitive proportions of gait phases enlightened in this study may act as an attractor for an efficient motor control in which four different limbs, more than ten joints, and many different muscles should be controlled at the same time.

With the enlightened Euro-cabaret-meets-chamber-punk act Barbez.