Sentence examples for western standpoint from inspiring English sources

It avoids some of the unwelcome language (from a Western standpoint) that was initially mooted".It's a breakthrough because it overcomes the polarisation that existed between the Islamic countries and the Western world.

Arguably, from the rebel and Western standpoint, the situation has significantly worsened: support for President Bashar al-Assad by allies like Russia, Iran and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah has enabled him to slow and gradually reverse the rebel campaign to oust him, which initially drew unequivocal Western and Arab rhetorical support.

Concerns that military exercises could be used as a veil to prepare a surprise attack on North Korea seem incomprehensible from a Western standpoint.

We must be wary, when thinking of Africa's future from a Western standpoint, of thinking of it in a way that actually does nothing more than satisfy our desire to be emotionally nourished by the warm soup of doing good things.

Finally, from a western standpoint, in countries where smoking has been banned from public places and where smoking rates have been largely falling (with some notable exceptions in pockets of the population), it is easy to forget that tobacco use is still a huge health hazard, and that the habit is on the increase in many developing countries.

Although postcolonial and Third-World feminists write from all over the world, they foreground non-Western epistemic standpoints and criticize North-South power asymmetries from the diverse perspectives of members of the global South (Herr 2013, Schutte 2002, 2005).

The idea that Chinese advances in human and patients' rights have been caused only by Western influence – a standpoint held by many Westerners and endorsed in the Chinese official discourse – has degraded the agency of Chinese people.

From another standpoint, our western blot analysis for active caspase-3 demonstrated that KOS GSE did not inhibit the early onset of glutamate-induced caspase-3 activation, but reduced levels 6 hr after the insult (Figure 4).

Not the pledge to the American flag, the one that most children in the US say - "We don't do anything that ties us to western culture from a ritual standpoint," says the principal and founder of the school, Taki Raton.

From late 1943 on, Hitler's strategy, which from a political standpoint remains inexplicable to most Western historians, was to strengthen the German forces in western Europe at the expense of those on the Eastern Front.

Most importantly from his standpoint, he has leveraged the western fear of regional chaos to his political advantage, by pushing aside the Palestinian issue and American calls to halt West Bank settlements.