How to Use non-Western in a Sentence

non-Western

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lou Harrison, an Oregonian gone south, was absorbing non-Western traditions.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• 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
• But today, more foreign powers, particularly non-Western midsize powers, are jockeying for influence in unstable political arenas.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024