Sentence examples for western times from inspiring English sources

(A full account of this can be found in John Walton's "Western Times and Water Wars").

A 1925 Western Times think piece begins: One of the most marked characteristics of this present century is the competition fever, which holds a big proportion of the population under its allurement.

If you find "cluemonia" comical, wait until you read the whimsical the Village Philosophy column in the Western Times, a kind of 1920s Karl Pilkington: This week us 'ad a bit of talk about those yer crossword puzzles as they calls 'm.

The idea of multiple levels of citizen participation in decision-making can be traced back, at least in modern (and Western) times, to Sherry Arnstein's influential 1969 article on the eight levels of citizen participation, ranging categorically from 'nonparticipation' to 'tokenism' to 'citizen power' [ 46].

Many Africans, he told The Globe, "don't know what Western time is.

[6] Western time was still kept according to the Julian calendar, devised by Julius Caesar.

In much of Asia, for example, time moves in spirals or cycles; by contrast, Western time is linear.

What displeases Pacific and Western time zone viewers is seeing NBC's "LIVE" graphic on events carried live only to the Eastern and Central time zones.

Tanpinar's satirical intentions in this novel are clarified by the fact that in 1926 Atatürk had formally adopted western time by passing the Gregorian Calendar Act.

And I, for one, was especially prone to humorlessness when Fakher would show up late, flash his rakish smile and joke, for the 20th time, that there were two kinds of time: Western time and Arabic time.

The rules were introduced in 1938 to cover radio broadcasts in the belief that voters in western time zones (there are five time zones across Canada) might be influenced or even discouraged from voting by results from the eastern zones.