How to Use anti-Western in a Sentence

anti-Western

adjective
  • Ukraine and its allies must aim to make Russia less anti-Western.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • Medina said the new pact must be understood as one layer in a wider anti-Western alignment.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • India has also been reluctant to support or join Chinese efforts to build an anti-Western bloc.
    — Tanvi Madan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Praise for a violent, anti-Western dictator like Putin is unimaginable coming from him.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The relationship is about more than agreeing on anti-Western ideology.
    — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
  • That might make the BRICS seem like an inherently anti-Western group.
    — Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Critics argue that the money from Obama and Biden helped Iran build its anti-Western terrorist forces.
    — Sharyl Attkisson, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025
  • 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
  • Russia has tried to build anti-Western sentiment by focusing on histories of colonialism.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Against a backdrop of growing anti-Western sentiment, the protagonists race against time for survival and redemption.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • Demonstrators waved national flags, chanted anti-Western slogans, and held up posters of military commanders killed in recent strikes.
    — Amanda Castro peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • 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
  • Such actions would build trust and undermine Chinese and Russian attempts to enlist the global South to an anti-Western cause.
    — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some analysts warn that instead of provoking discontent, the attacks could fuel stronger anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western fervor.
    — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • Some insiders have pushed for toning down anti-Western extremism and for cultivating relations with Western countries.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Cameron described Putin as deeply nationalistic, anti-Western and anti-democratic and said the Russian leader couldn’t be trusted.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Kovalchuk’s remarks show the depth of anti-Western feeling and sympathy for conspiracy theories within the Russian ruling elite.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In the process, this collaboration has raised worries that a new strategic axis is now working to remake the world order in an anti-Western, authoritarian direction.
    — Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zourabichvili’s term ends in December, and Georgian Dream has nominated a former lawmaker with hardline anti-Western views to replace her.
    — Reuters, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
  • For the United States and Israel, this new relationship risks cementing the emergence of an influential anti-Western axis.
    — Nicole Grajewski, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The new leadership brought about a radical shift in foreign policy towards a more pro-Islamic, anti-Western approach—and a reversal of its stance towards Israel.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 May 2025

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