Sentence examples for period of openness from inspiring English sources

But a brief period of openness was quickly quashed.

Feinstein began negotiating the terms of the committee's investigation in the spring of 2009, during an unusual period of openness.

There was a period of openness, excitement and a feeling that nothing would ever be the same again.

"There was a period of openness, a period of hope, when the new leaders first came to power," said Jiao Guobiao, a journalism professor at Beijing University.

When Bashar al-Assad took over as president in 2000, he ushered in a brief period of openness that came to be called the Damascus Spring.

During the brief period of openness in late May and early June, parents marched with photos of their children and gathered at the wreckage of schools to hold memorial services.

In the East, various periods of openness and progress unleashed horrific militarism in Japan and decades of punishing isolation in China.

History shows, that periods of openness contributed to the flourishing of Gdansk, while the times when it was ruled by xenophobia and intolerance brought defeat.

Naturally, a writer is drawn to describe that period of extraordinary openness — writing, too, aspires to be open to the power of people in that kind of wholehearted way.

It was a period of cultural openness — artists from around the world were invited.

In the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period of relative openness known as the Thaw.