How to Use anti-Western in a Sentence
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Ukraine and its allies must aim to make Russia less anti-Western.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
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But mixed in with the anti-Western posturing in Manchukuo was an anxious desire to impress the West.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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As the Chinese president lands in Russia, amid Putin’s feverish anti-Western rhetoric, the world is at a dangerous crossroads.
—Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
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Now, these juntas have taken steps to wrap themselves in anti-Western rhetoric and have taken preliminary steps to rid themselves of the vestiges of their colonial past.
—Daniel Markind, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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There has been no clear explanation of the Russian symbols, but the country seems to have become a symbol of anti-Western feelings for demonstrators.
—Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
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More recently, coups in Burkina Faso in 2022 and Niger last year have come amid growing anti-Western sentiment.
—Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
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Axis leaders welcome confrontation with the West at a time when these anti-Western ideas are gaining newfound attention.
—Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
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But the monumental scale of destruction in Gaza has breathed new life into Tehran’s anti-Western and anti-Israeli invective.
—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
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Praise for a violent, anti-Western dictator like Putin is unimaginable coming from him.
—Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
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While there is no sign that Russia helped instigate Niger’s rebellion, Moscow has sought to take advantage of anti-Western sentiment around the region in recent years.
—Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
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Experts have said that choosing to include countries that are openly antagonistic toward the West, such as Iran, could swing the group further toward becoming an anti-Western bloc.
—Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
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Russia has tried to build anti-Western sentiment by focusing on histories of colonialism.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
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Donors who have slumbered through every mutation of anti-Western and racially charged activity angrily closed their wallets.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
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After independence from Britain in 1964, its anti-Western leaders courted Muammar Gaddafi as ally and benefactor.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
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The failure to acknowledge & confront Islamism, antisemitism, and anti-Western values among some of our Muslim communities.
—Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
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That tracks with what the experts said was Anonymous Sudan’s pattern of timing its cyberattacks to geopolitical flare-ups in countries aligned against Russia to gain greater visibility for its anti-Western messages.
—Jordan Robertson, Fortune, 28 June 2023
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Such criticism is common among government officials in Serbia, where pro-Russian and anti-Western sentiment have increased in recent years.
—Jovana Gec and Dusan Stojanovic, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
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During the Cold War, communist ideology ultimately pushed the two countries apart, while now they are united by a more general set of conservative, anti-Western, and statist attitudes.
—Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
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India and Brazil have expressed concerns about the bloc potentially becoming too anti-Western and dominated by Beijing, and some of the new members may be similarly skeptical, according to Legarda.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 28 Aug. 2023
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Maintaining extreme anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian views may help the new hawks achieve their political goals, and the concurrent radicalization of the regime could lead authorities to become much harsher toward their domestic foes.
—Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
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If once, in the Kremlin, there had been an ongoing argument between mildly pro-Western liberals and resolutely anti-Western conservatives, that argument is over.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
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The goal is not to isolate or encircle China but to disabuse any notion that Beijing could succeed in forming a cohesive anti-Western coalition that could fulfill China’s development and security requirements.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
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Yet, especially on social media, backers of the coup have taken on a strikingly anti-Western line, casting both Bazoum’s government and its regional defenders as puppets of imperialist powers.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
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Serbian war criminals are largely regarded as heroes, and pro-Russia and anti-Western sentiment have thrived in recent years as members of minority groups routinely face harassment and sometimes physical violence.
—Dusan Stojanovic, ajc, 7 May 2023
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The Kurdish issue, the sway of security actors, and a pervasive anti-Western sentiment in Turkish politics are deeply ingrained, providing a stable foundation for policy continuity.
—Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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All three consistently reinforce one another’s anti-American and anti-Western agendas.
—Daniel Twining, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
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Quiet, hypermasculine, humiliated by Russia’s global weakness, prone to corruption and anti-Western sentiment—this explains the president’s decisions, according to Matthews.
—Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
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Murals frequently depicted anti-Western sentiments, condemning foreign interference and imperialism.
—Pouya Afshar, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
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