Sentence examples for making enlightened from inspiring English sources
But in the 2000s private investors were invited to play only a subordinate role, with the state keeping a controlling stake and making enlightened decisions in the interests of all.
Planned Parenthood's programs on self-esteem and making enlightened choices regarding sexual activity are based on the assumption that the locus of all values resides in individuals without regard to a higher order of right or wrong and irrespective of the welfare of society as a whole.
There is power in knowing and when you know you make enlightened decisions.
Such books make enlightening historical foot notes, even if they themselves are occasionally in need of a footnote or two.
"We make enlightening, engaging and entertaining shows that can make a difference," he wrote.
And once he is sent to a Jamaican prison, unrepentant, he looks "hopefully, even eagerly, ahead to an ecstatic boredom, a concentration of misery made enlightening as the resolving experience of his life".
But now I've read some blogs during this whole thing that made me enlightened at things I didn't know.
You're a religion if you do something as weird as when the Buddhist monks scrutinize two-year-olds to find the reincarnation of the dude who just died, and then choose one of the toddlers as the sacred Lama: "His poop is royal!" Sorry, but thinking you can look at a babbling, barely-housebroken, uneducated being and say, "That's our leader" doesn't make you enlightened.
To the Enlightenment's challenge to traditional morality and values they brought their own peculiar blend of curiosity, optimism and pragmatism, for, as enlightened English people made clear, new perspectives of man and society that did not in some way improve the quality of everyday life were not of much interest.
But the size of the gulf between rich and poor - revealed today by Education Guardian – makes for enlightening reading.
I have also very likely prepared an incredibly moving speech about how marginalizing one of the most important forces of progress in human history somehow makes me more enlightened, inclusive and progressive than people who do not".
