Sentence examples for idealistic project from inspiring English sources

Many of the leaders were, as McGirr acknowledges, Progressives, engaged in a broad and idealistic project of reform.

The European Union is a great idealistic project, and it is a tragedy that it might be torn down now.

But at least one "true" voter, James Wallace, 43, from Manhattan, spotted a hidden note of realism in Mr. Lambert's idealistic project.

That explains why, the story goes, he was the first German leader to view the European Union pragmatically, as a utilitarian, not an idealistic project.

Because of the general Government corruption, the enterprise was doomed from the start, but as it was the last idealistic project the Americans undertook, American officials year after year paraded every visiting journalist and politician through Be's camp.

Victory in Iraq depends not only on the successful overthrow of Saddam but also on the maintenance of security there and on the attainment of some measure of legitimacy, in order to make good on the idealistic project of building a stable, secular democracy.

At the same time, nonetheless, she suggests the moral worth of idealistic projects and altruistic choices which may be inspired by the failure of culturally and biologically driven patterns of human behavior.

In this lovely, smart book, Margaret Sumner depicts the ambitious regional liberal arts colleges founded at the start of the nineteenth century as both an idealistic nationalist project and a lucrative family business.

An idealistic peace-project versus a pragmatic free-trade zone.

But other idealistic crowdsourced projects — most notably the 16-year-old Wikipedia itself and the entire open-source software movement that profoundly changed the software world — have worked in the past.

"Sport can help them, although it is perhaps my idealistic thinking, to project a better image out to the world".