Sentence examples for opposing ideals from inspiring English sources

He has a talent for balancing opposing ideals, sometimes to the extent of appearing disingenuous or oxymoronic.

This album, which he produced with the drummer Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, shudders with the tension of opposing ideals: folksiness and futurism, clarity and ambiguity.

Furthermore, a multi-group region need not be populated with groups of opposing ideals in order to form transitive triads.

It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideals.

As Emma Watson eloquently said in her speech to the United Nations in 2014, "It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals".

To deny the inherent, tangled hierarchy of ongoing conflicts in Israel, Iraq, and Kashmir that pit opposing ideals against one another with the supply of billions of dollars into the oil industry, ground zero for which is the American ally Saudi Arabia, and the even more profitable arms trade that subsidizes all sides of these wars showcases Ms. Rabinowitz's unprofessional lack of understanding.

Suspecting that the Roman Academy and its founder, the Italian humanist Julius Pomponius Laetus, were opposing Christian ideals and endorsing a materialistic vision of life inspired by an admiration for the ancient world, Paul dissolved the academy and arrested its members in February 1468, subjecting one of its leading humanists, Bartolomeo Platina, to torture on additional charges of conspiracy.

The editorial reads: "Our latest summer story represents an opposing to ideal of beauty altogether, with masked poolside models set out to soak up as little sun as possible.

"They did not intervene when they were needed," he says, referring to both European and US governments, "and they oppose my ideals, so I cannot live there".

He has managed to twist progressive Dutch values such as support for gay rights to argue that Muslim immigrants oppose those ideals, and therefore do not belong in the Netherlands.

Over matters of democracy, liberty and tolerance, this Government appears to be opposing the very ideals it says we share.