Sentence examples for world yearning from inspiring English sources

"We've become an Oldsmobile in a world yearning for a Prius".

But what is happening in Afghanistan could be more disturbing yet, in the message it sends a modern world yearning for a dialogue among civilizations.

"For more than a century, our Statue of Liberty has welcomed all kinds of people from all over the world yearning to be free," Mr. Clinton said before it passed.

"For more than a century, our Statue of Liberty has welcomed all kinds of people from all over the world yearning to be free," Mr. Clinton said in a statement released by the Human Rights Campaign.

It would be pointless in this sense to deny that jihadist radicals around the world, yearning to turn the clock back to the supposedly pure Islam of the seventh century, have succeeded in defining Islam for many non-Muslims, including, it would seem, Ms. Geller.

Part of the message the Iraqi leader is sending with his mosque-building is that he, Saddam Hussein, is the natural leader of an Arab world yearning for past glories under the banner of Islam that fluttered atop the Arab armies that conquered much of the ancient world after the death of the prophet Muhammad in 632.

And, since the world yearns for pink in summer, why not a dry Provençal rosé that's more mineral than fruity?

It suggests that evil is part of the natural order of things, a conclusion that our sense of trust in the world yearns to reject.

Countless individuals in countries around the world yearn for the democratic freedoms -- among them, the right to vote and honest elections -- that so many Americans take for granted.

The new novel by Alison McLeod, The Wave Theory of Angels - set partially in the Fermilab, the Chicago physics lab - has a wonderful first paragraph: "The world yearns.

In relation to foreign policy, he shares the Blairite view that people across the world yearn for democracy, but added an important qualification: that democracy cannot be imposed from outside.