Sentence examples for western leanings from inspiring English sources

Appearing at the president's office, Mr. Gul expressed confidence that both Turkey's democracy and its Western leanings could thrive under an Islamic leadership.

The maneuver — along with bombing of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi — seemed to suggest that Russia's aims in the conflict had gone beyond securing the pro-Russian enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to weakening the armed forces of Georgia, a former Soviet republic and an ally of the United States whose Western leanings have long irritated the Kremlin.

Born around 1969, he was shaped by his father's opposition to the last Iranian monarchy's Western leanings.

They are under the impression that America's current intention remains squarely in the path of another regime change, which will install an unpopular Western leaning leader like the former Shah, Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavī.

Bin-Laden had always opposed the creation of either an emirate or a caliphate in the Middle East until the United States was "defeated," in other words, until it either voluntarily withdrew from the Middle East, or was forcibly ejected, and its protection of the Western leaning Gulf monarchies was ended.

A massacre was averted; a weak but largely democratic government emerged, with pro-Western leanings, even though the White House disengaged after Qaddafi's fall.

And Russia's leaders, furious with Ukraine's president over his pro-Western leanings and vocal support of Georgia, have personally weighed in, making accusations of their own.

In 1948 Pechersky was arrested by the Soviet authorities along with his brother during the countrywide Rootless cosmopolitan campaign against the Jews suspected of pro-Western leanings.

Idris was Western-leaning.

After months of infighting, the Western-leaning governing coalition in Ukraine formally collapsed Tuesday.

It was picked up by Channel 5, a station owned by a western-leaning oligarch named Petro Poroshenko.