Sentence examples for western patrimony from inspiring English sources

This is the case in Russia, even though Russian art and culture are considered to be an integral part of the Western patrimony; in China, which is awaiting its historic moment with barely concealed impatience; and in Iran, the self-proclaimed bearer of a mission to spread Islam throughout the world.

Elsewhere in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia, domestic political infighting about foreign involvement in the national oil patrimony has kept out major Western companies.

The British Museum is Europe's Western front in the global war over cultural patrimony, on account of the marbles.

"What is so important about Timbuktu's literary patrimony is that it is a challenge to Western ideas that Africa is a land of song and dance and oral tradition," Ms Syson said.

By making the Turks out to be the ancestors of Western civilization, it allowed the nation to modernize without losing face: to "Westernize" was simply to rediscover a lost patrimony.

"The museum, the Western institution I have dedicated my life to, with its familiar humanist offerings of knowledge and patrimony in the name of empathy and education, is one of the greatest holdouts of the colonialist enterprise," she said.

Strung along the storied Delaware, Lackawanna & Western as well as little-known short lines like the former Squankum & Freehold are gems of the state's railroad patrimony -- its 160 rail stations.

Simplicity was not his patrimony.

This is not our patrimony.

This reading was his primary patrimony.

It is their cultural patrimony, they say.