Sentence examples for western principle from inspiring English sources

That is why you cannot draw white lines on the road in India, call them lanes and expect people to follow a Western principle called lane discipline.

In the end, however, "Worlds at War" is another book about the clash between the Enlightenment and religion, and its central target is Islam, which, Pagden argues, is incompatible with the Western principle of separation between church and state.

Australians speak English, and the economy functions under Western principles.

The argument pits respect for core Western principles against tolerance for other cultures and religions.

The Baltic people have put Western principles of democracy into practice in their 10 years of restored independence.

"Many Islamist parties and movements were bent on winning recognition as democrats and on denouncing repression by reference to the universal Western principles of human rights," he says.

He called for religious sensitivity on the Danish cartoons crisis rather than "lectures delivered in the style of a schoolmaster on western principles of freedom of speech".

The idea was to transplant Western principles of government and society -- ideals that took hundreds of years to develop in Europe -- to uncivilized lands.

We, in the West, judge Chinese ideologies on Western principles, but this can be a reflection of Western arrogance and ignorance.

In some countries, the failure to uphold human rights is excused by the false suggestion that these are Western principles, foreign to local cultures or stages of a nation's development.

The result was often a new city planned according to Western principles of beauty and separation of uses, adjacent to unplanned settlements both new and old, subject to all the ills of the medieval European city.