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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Along with rampant anti-Western rhetoric by the Kremlin and state media, this has damped down Russian public interest in the competition.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Praise for a violent, anti-Western dictator like Putin is unimaginable coming from him.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Against a backdrop of growing anti-Western sentiment, the protagonists race against time for survival and redemption.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2024
• 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
• Russia has tried to build anti-Western sentiment by focusing on histories of colonialism.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• 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
• After independence from Britain in 1964, its anti-Western leaders courted Muammar Gaddafi as ally and benefactor.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• The failure to acknowledge & confront Islamism, antisemitism, and anti-Western values among some of our Muslim communities.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• In foreign affairs, Beijing still depicts the world as comprising both developing and developed countries rather than framing it as Western and anti-Western blocs competing for influence in the global South.
  — Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All three consistently reinforce one another’s anti-American and anti-Western agendas.
  — Daniel Twining, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024