How to Use non-Western in a Sentence

non-Western

adjective

• Western thought is not wrong, just as non-Western thought is not.
  — Muraly Srinarayanathas, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• Care needs to be taken to how these concepts are lived, understood and talked about in non-Western settings.
  — Miki Mori, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2024
• The United States needs to show that its interests are not in opposition to those of non-Western countries.
  — Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• This stance played well on the world stage, especially among non-Western countries outside the Middle East such as India.
  — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
• Rauch promised to expand its repertoire to include non-Western classics and to diversify both the company and the staff.
  — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
• But empire has taken many non-Western forms, especially in the Middle East.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Academy has struggled to recognize non-Western cinema at all in that time.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• Czech President Petr Pavel has put together a ‘shell coalition’ that is trying to fund the purchase of nearly a million shells held in non-Western countries.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• The Transcendentalists were famous, in their time, for their interest in Indian and other forms of non-Western thought.
  — Jeremy David Engels, Fortune Well, 21 June 2023
• The minister wants to step up German arms deliveries to countries in the Indo-Pacific, and perhaps to other non-Western partners around the globe.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• However, with sanctions and other forms of pressure, Venezuela would not be hedging positions, but being left at the mercy of non-Western actors.
  — Elias Ferrer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Carbon emissions would increase because there is a dearth of renewables and the world would have to burn dirtier fossil fuels from non-Western entities.
  — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.
  — Manasee Weerathunga, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
• But Russia has continued to find other non-Western markets for exports to get around the cap, particularly in China and India.
  — Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
• Russian sanctions woke up non-Western nations to the vulnerability of their U.S. dollar reserves.
  — Sanford Mann, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The governments of many major non-Western powers are attempting to take a greater role on the global stage while facing persistent or increasing instability at home.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
• This year, close Moscow ally Belarus will become a full member of the organization, and its admission indicates how Russia wants to bolster blocs of non-Western countries.
  — Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
• On top of that, equality before the law is a basic principle of justice, but until this point, the ICC has mainly prosecuted authoritarian and non-Western leaders.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
• The initiative is part of the Kremlin’s overall efforts to deepen economic and political ties with non-Western countries amid European and American sanctions.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• The report also points to continued issues at Meta moderating content in non-Western or non-English speaking countries, which the company has faced criticism over before.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 25 July 2024
• From the beginning, the program’s targeting of communities largely based on the presence of non-Western immigrants or their descendants has attracted widespread criticism.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• In its economic relations, Moscow has capitalized on the opportunism of countries indifferent to the conflict: the Kremlin aims to integrate Russia into non-Western networks of trade, defense, and commerce.
  — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2023
• Further replication is needed, and cross-cultural studies using non-Western participants are scarce.
  — Christian B. Miller, CNN, 25 June 2024
• Lou Harrison, an Oregonian gone south, was absorbing non-Western traditions.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• This commitment to diversity is crucial in an industry that has historically overlooked non-Western beauty standards.
  — Nawal Sari, refinery29.com, 23 May 2024
• On the other side were Rousseau’s, who saw in prehistory—and its putative living representatives among non-Western societies—forms of egalitarianism and harmony that modernity had destroyed.
  — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• After the broad best global music performance category flattened the diversity of non-Western musical stylings, the Recording Academy’s new best African music performance category aims to respond to the explosive growth of the continent’s music.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 14 July 2023
• His compositions often made connections with non-Western styles, and his musical practices drew on Eastern spirituality and meditation.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• Positive policies, involving trade and cooperation, are only directed toward non-Western countries.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• Exhibitions focused on Native American civilizations and other non-Western cultures raise this critique implicitly but compellingly.
  — Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025