Sentence examples for ethnos from inspiring English sources

However, even the finest polyglot would struggle to reach voters in 24 official languages.Philippe Van Parijs, a professor at Louvain University, argues that European-level democracy does not require a homogenous culture, or ethnos; a common political community, or demos, needs only a lingua franca.

The terms ethnic and ethnicity have their roots in the Greek word ethnos, which describes a community of common descent.

There followed, in around 404 or 405, an initiative that has been one of the cornerstones of the endurance of the Armenian ethnos: the invention of a distinctive alphabet capable of rendering the language's complex phonetic system.

True, Rorty does not say that what is true, what is good, and what is right is relative to some particular ethnos, and so in that sense he is no relativist.

On this account, being the philosophy of the Latin American ethnos is sufficient for counting as Latin American philosophy.

A Marc poll published in the Ethnos newspaper put Syriza's advantage over New Democracy at less than half a point.

Labor has queried why the attorney general, George Brandis, is intervening in sensitive foreign policy issues such as the Middle East peace talks, with the former foreign minister Bob Carr accusing the Coalition of siding with the "religious, ethno-nationalist right of Israeli politics".

The rooms are decorated in ethno-chic style – dark red walls, heavy wooden doors, ornate chests and four-poster canopy beds – all with private terraces.

"We have sided with the religious, ethno-nationalist right of Israeli politics.

It's the only way of bringing the ethno-nationalists in Jerusalem into line, although – subject of course to the current Israeli election – their wrong-headedness looks irreversible.

That is, the long term security interests of Israel as opposed to the expectations of its current ethno-nationalist leadership.