Sentence examples for western excess from inspiring English sources

In an opinion article in the online edition of People's Daily, Pan Yue, the outspoken vice minister of the Ministry of Environment, blamed Western excess for the global crisis and warned that China risked ruin if it blindly pursued Western industrial models.

In Japan, the holiday prompts an onslaught of advertisements and in heavily-Islamic Indonesia, the celebrations brings about rounds of protests against what is perceived as a celebration of Western excess.

They said that Western regulators had ignored warning signs, Western banks had used exotic off-the-books "conduits" to buy and sell dubious mortgage products, Western rating agencies had gone along for the ride — and now the whole world was suffering from Western excesses.

Despite the partial culpability of Western excesses during the last century, it's hard to argue that Jihadists are therefore the good guys and Yankee imperialists the bad guys.

In modern Western culture, excess weight is often regarded as unattractive, and obesity is commonly associated with various negative stereotypes.

DALYs estimated using the Western Australian ' excess' case fatality rate from the WA hospital morbidity database after 28 days following stroke and disability weights for stroke [ 14].

Western-style excess is, predictably, the predominant ethos among Dubai nightclubs, which are almost always inside hotels.

Amplifying the violence of the Italian spaghetti western to repellant excess as a parallel to the violence of the Vietnam War's media coverage; Peckinpah heralds the true death of the gunslinger, as Pike Bishop William Holdenn) and his ageing gang of outlaws live to see their self-proscribed code of honour lost to the advances of the 20th century.

As compared to same-aged Finnish-speaking men in western Finland, the excess mortality is more than 100 deaths per year.

After adjusting for confounding factors (patient, tumour and treatment related), the risk of dying was lower for first generation non-Western immigrants (relative excess risk 0.55, 95% confidence interval 0.43 0.70) compared with Western patients.

We don't need all of the excess many western countries indulge in to feel happy.