How to Use internationalism in a Sentence

internationalism

noun
  • Einstein hoped that internationalism, rather, might pave the way for a more just and peaceful world.
    Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The voting base of each party is even less drawn to Cold War internationalism than the funding élite is.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 16 May 2021
  • Over the next four years—the last years of his life, and the period Zipp focuses on in The Idealist—Willkie would leverage his celebrity to advance the cause of internationalism.
    Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • But in recent years the portion of the new class that subscribes to the old liberal internationalism has receded into the background.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • This year that sense of internationalism must either adapt or risk fading.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2021
  • Propinquity — the space of nearness, neighborliness, and kinship — was central to his localist internationalism and to his idea of the good city.
    Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That historic tension between go-it-alone nationalism and broad-coalition internationalism has played out in stark form in the last week.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, it's aided by the internationalism that defines modern life.
    Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Lodge’s life was defined by his movement from his grandfather’s isolationism to his own brand of internationalism — a big idea, a big issue.
    Keith C. Burris Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • What unites Zahra’s large and diverse cast of characters is their role in the grand drama of the struggle between those who stood for some kind of internationalism and their more nationalist and nativist opponents.
    Mark Mazower, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, the Treble — throwing in the Champions League for good measure, a nod to elite soccer’s growing internationalism — has become the yardstick for greatness.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Its products have been drafted into teams that, invariably, play a style and use an approach that is inflected with internationalism.
    New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • The era of bipartisan liberal internationalism that has remained intact since the onset of the Cold War will finally end.
    Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • If governments and leaders are not keeping that flame of internationalism alive today, then we as citizens must.
    vanityfair.com, 15 Mar. 2017
  • The borders within Europe are more open than ever before, yet proponents of liberal internationalism are on the back foot.
    Timothy Garton Ash, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But surveys also indicate that support for internationalism is broad, but shallow — while voters on the left and right who want to bring troops home often feel passionately about the subject.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
  • This text of Mark Twain was in line with the internationalism and cross-cultural, cross-pollination that has inspired so many anticolonial causes.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The two worked closely together in those years, with Moore emphasizing to Malcolm the significance of Pan-Africanism and internationalism in the struggle for black freedom.
    Keisha N. Blain, Time, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Nowhere is this internationalism better reflected than in the city's cuisine.
    Claire Dederer, ELLE Decor, 27 May 2011
  • Yet there is no doubt that the war has reanimated the zombie of liberal internationalism for the foreseeable future.
    Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Seven decades of firm internationalism in the Republican Party finally have come to an end.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 17 July 2018
  • That internationalism is what has turned European soccer, over the last 30 years, into a global obsession.
    New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Wendell Willkie is an oddball in the history of internationalism.
    Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • These attitudes were consistent with a high-alarm version of internationalism that focussed on the Soviet threat.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Just when cooperation seems most needed, many world leaders have been turning away from the internationalism that the U.N. embodies.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
  • And that makes them members of a fast-growing new fraternity of global actors, all nervously trying to figure out whether Trump is in earnest in shutting the door on American internationalism.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The very nature of the Games itself is political, of course, a showcase of nationalism and clear proof of global power imbalances set against its message of internationalism and unity.
    Neil J. Young, The Week, 30 July 2021
  • Yet the narrative of Tokyo isn’t predetermined – and the promise of internationalism and athleticism remain.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2021
  • The Saudi bungle highlights the failure of Mr. Biden’s brand of righteous liberal internationalism.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • His internationalism was one of many qualities that Gordon-Reed admires.
    Nawal Arjini, The New York Review of Books, 28 Aug. 2021

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