How to Use anti-Western in a Sentence

anti-Western

adjective

• Read: Putin is loving this At the time, Putin was not anti-Western.
  — Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
• Ukraine and its allies must aim to make Russia less anti-Western.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Praise for a violent, anti-Western dictator like Putin is unimaginable coming from him.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Against a backdrop of growing anti-Western sentiment, the protagonists race against time for survival and redemption.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The relationship is about more than agreeing on anti-Western ideology.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Russia has tried to build anti-Western sentiment by focusing on histories of colonialism.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• 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
• After independence from Britain in 1964, its anti-Western leaders courted Muammar Gaddafi as ally and benefactor.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• The failure to acknowledge & confront Islamism, antisemitism, and anti-Western values among some of our Muslim communities.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Iran’s Axis of Resistance, an informal coalition of anti-Western and anti-Israeli militias, was already having a terrible year.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
• That tracks with what the experts said was Anonymous Sudan’s pattern of timing its cyberattacks to geopolitical flare-ups in countries aligned against Russia to gain greater visibility for its anti-Western messages.
  — Jordan Robertson, Fortune, 28 June 2023
• Such criticism is common among government officials in Serbia, where pro-Russian and anti-Western sentiment have increased in recent years.
  — Jovana Gec and Dusan Stojanovic, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
• In foreign affairs, Beijing still depicts the world as comprising both developing and developed countries rather than framing it as Western and anti-Western blocs competing for influence in the global South.
  — Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 1 Aug. 2024
• During the Cold War, communist ideology ultimately pushed the two countries apart, while now they are united by a more general set of conservative, anti-Western, and statist attitudes.
  — Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
• The outfit has been populated with some of the worst crackpots and conspiracy theorists, and its anti-Western orientation is matched only by its reliable antisemitism.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2025