Sentence examples for western achievements from inspiring English sources

He often expressed admiration for Western achievements in science and technology, but he was also fond of insisting that none of the advances made by the West had ever outsmarted death.

What it comes to is that if we, who can scarcely be considered a white nation, persist in thinking of ourselves as one, we condemn ourselves, with the truly white nations, to sterility and decay, whereas if we could accept ourselves as we are, we might bring new life to the Western achievements, and transform them.

Do they want to sacrifice liberal democracy, the best and most Western of all Western achievements?

Khrushchev believed that the USSR could match the West's living standards, and was not afraid to allow Soviet citizens to see Western achievements.

The only western achievement that they respected more than our political liberty was our modern technology.

From 1951 to 1966, the composer Nicolas Nabokov (a cousin of Vladimir) ran the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization founded to promote Western cultural achievements as an anti-Communist bulwark.

This project is the culmination of a decade spent aimlessly railing against the BBFC a decade that began when I was 13 years old and, like every other 13-year-old I knew, was convinced that the movie Fight Club represented the pinnacle of western cultural achievement.

Any survey of western Muslim literary achievements would be incomplete if it did not mention the most profound historiographer of the Islamic world, the Tunisian Ibn Khaldūn (died 1406).

The Turks are inventive, industrious, educated, with a long history of achievements, western oriented, and stand for, believe in, and will insist on a democratic way of life.

In "The Rings of Saturn" the contamination ranges wider and farther back: it includes not just Jews but all of Western life and achievement.

Western constructs of achievement goals and learning approaches may not function in the same direction or generate the same effects in non-Western students due to differences in culture (Ho and Hau 2008).