Sentence examples for world notions from inspiring English sources

It is a paradigm transformation of our world: Notions of a nation's size, wealth, power, military might, population and G.D.P. mean something altogether different from what they meant a generation ago.

Across Asia, as elsewhere in the world, notions of masculinity are infused with power, control and entitlement, the source of much brutality against women and children, including gang rape by teenagers in Cambodia and daily violence in families in China, to name two examples, activists and researchers said.

Mexican-Americans bring the New World notion encompassed by the word mestizaje, or racial and cultural synthesis, to their American experience.

That wars of aggression are the supreme crime does not mix well with the "policeman of the world" notion.

But aha, the pope would say, here I am being a cultural colonialist, seeking to impose my first-world notions on those of a developing community that has a very different perspective.

This directly contradicts Thomas Friedman's flat-world notion that globalisation has emasculated the state.

I had only a vague first-world notion of "deforestation" and this being bad.

"But I find it, in a way, a small-world notion of the value and significance of a piece".

Some scholars have been skeptical of the notion of world opinion, arguing that it lacks methodological rigour.

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Amy, says Kapadia, was born at the wrong time, caught on the cusp of an analogue and a digital world where notions of privacy were changing rapidly.