Sentence examples for western term from inspiring English sources

The Western term transubstantiation occurs only in some confessions of faith after the 17th century.

Indeed, the Western term "female genital mutilation" has antagonized some African women because it assumes that they have been "mutilated".

Confucianism, a Western term that has no counterpart in Chinese, is a worldview, a social ethic, a political ideology, a scholarly tradition, and a way of life.

During the 1923 campaign for Parliament, his opponents started a whispering campaign that "democracy" was a Western term for wife-swapping.

More broadly, of the entire genre of world music (to use a Western term that by this late date has a slight aura of imperialist condescension: to the Senegalese, after all, Beethoven is part of "world music").

She is charmed by the names given to the vagina in the "rich tradition of erotic literature" of Islam, such as el cheukk, or "the chink," though she thinks the Western term "slit" is "violent-sounding".

A type of "coming of age" ceremony, to put it in clumsy western terms.

However, though $1.99 – standard for a shortform ebooklet – is low in western terms, it's a prohibitive amount elsewhere.

A striking feature of both Kaldor and Keane is their tendency to discuss global civil society largely in western terms.

In Western terms, it's trying to increase the gap between impulse and saying or doing something you might regret later.

This," showing Murakami's mish-mash of katakana and hiragana, syllabary writing systems used for words with no kanji, or borrowed (usually) Western terms, "is something else".