Example sentences of "we in the west " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bluster of the tear-stained pop stars simply buffeted , pushed away the possibility that the lyric ought to have contained certain small truths such as ‘ WE ARE THE SICK ONES , WE IN THE WEST ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We in the west of Ireland have all the old customs that survive in England here and there — the Garland Days , midsummer bonfires and decorated wells . |
| 3 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 4 | In a properly balanced meal , only one dish should be really hot although chilli/cayenne may be present in others — much as we in the West indiscriminately use black pepper . |
| 5 | We in the West try to keep the spiritual and the material together and our minds are confused and jumbled ; the mundane distracting us from the spiritual , and the spiritual distracting us from the mundane . |
| 6 | ‘ We in the West regard infant crying as normal , and in a thousand different ways condition our children to associate babies with bawling . |
| 7 | But we in the West can not be too sanguine , because bureaucracy is a major cause of impersonalism in our societies and the most negative aspect of the collective in our essentially individualistic culture . |
| 8 | This is a question which we in the West need to ask ourselves , for too often we identify the self with the body , or feeling or thinking or consciousness . |
| 9 | We in the west should be prepared to act in concert to impose sanctions , and to patrol the coast and the skies while a full conference to determine the relationship between the former Yugoslav territories is convened . |
| 10 | The exhibit 's called ’ Yellow Peril ’ , and is supposed to question the way we in the west think about the Chinese . |
| 11 | First , the concern of socialists with justice is a rebuke to many of us in the West who tend to be far too complacent in accepting the status quo and much which is unjust which goes with it . |
| 12 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |