Spirit
in sentence
1797 examples of Spirit in a sentence
WASHINGTON, DC – This is not a city overflowing with the holiday
spirit.
Furthermore, since 2003 state schools offer religious instruction (using authorized textbooks that are never Wahhabi in spirit), with the informal approval of secular and Sufi teachers alike.
Are they not animated by the same
spirit
as Poland’s Solidarity and the peaceful masses that created Prague’s Velvet Revolution in 1989?
That is the true European spirit, and no doubts can crush it.
But the
spirit
of my speech was simple.
This is the
spirit
of the upcoming conference.
I hope that
spirit
will spread far beyond San José, and that other regions will join us in recognizing that while our borders may define our territories, having the courage to reach across them defines our character – and, ultimately, our future success or failure.
But he has also striven to understand what makes capitalist economies dynamic, what lies behind the entrepreneurial spirit, and what we can do to promote it further.
Oppenheimer records, in meticulous and horrifying detail, a group of former death-squad leaders re-enacting the murders they committed – not, at least initially, in any
spirit
of confession or remorse, but rather to portray themselves as the heroes of a necessary process of national purification.
As a result, China’s leaders could fail to honor the
spirit
or even the explicit terms of their commitments with impunity.
Unfortunately, faced with a choice between protecting the long-term interests and human rights of their customers and complying with laws implemented by unelected power-holders, technology firms like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google seem to have embraced the Ah Q
spirit.
It reminds us of the closeness, in spirit, between extreme neo-cons and communist idealogues.
Clearly, the key features of Silicon Valley that foster innovation and entrepreneurship – a dense concentration of human talent, a competitive spirit, easy access to capital, and a supportive regulatory environment – can be replicated in and adapted to a wide variety of contexts.
The
spirit
behind this famous quip, attributed to John Maynard Keynes, would be alien to the populist camp, but not to the generation of Latin American pragmatists epitomized by Aylwin.
By that time, America’s innovative
spirit
– the love of imagining, exploring, experimenting, and creating – had been weakened by a corporatist ideology that permeated all levels of government and replaced the individualist ideology upon which capitalism thrives.
“Maker spaces” – shared production facilities built around a
spirit
of open innovation – are proliferating.
Yet, Dubai has also shown the rest of the Middle East what entrepreneurial
spirit
can accomplish.
Although Putin did have the decency to change the words, he retained the Soviet
spirit
- “great Russia united forever.”
In Western Europe, Japan, and the United States, places where individuality lost its novelty long ago and where the managerial
spirit
and mass commerce flourish, this sameness may be something to debate.
India's Southern States have caught the
spirit
of economic reform.
Eagleburger, then in a wheelchair because of his knees and phlebitis, coughing from his cigarette habit and his asthma, instantly recognized a kindred
spirit
in Kuron.
One imaginative approach – in the
spirit
of groups like the seventeenth-century British Levellers – is to ground the rationale for workable integration in an inclusive, accessible form.
Indeed, although the war with Georgia demonstrated the revived combat
spirit
of the Russian army – at least when compared to its ineptness in the two Chechen wars of the 1990’s – it also exhibited the grave defects of Russian military technology.
This, too, fits strongly with the
spirit
in which Ban has approached his new position.
The strategic test will be for regional organizations – such as APEC – to ensure that the
spirit
of cooperation always outweighs the member states’ competitive impulses.
The
spirit
of hope in the country is palpable, though some older people, who saw earlier moments of apparent relaxation of authoritarian rule come and go, remain cautious.
After all, the test of alliance does not lie in praising agreements, but in thrashing out disagreements in a
spirit
of cooperation.
I have known Hasina for nearly 50 years, and I have had many opportunities to appreciate not only her nobility of
spirit
but also her deep and abiding attachment to a moderate and enlightened Islam that fully respects the rights of man – and of women.
Moreover, Europeans should, in the same
spirit
of openness, ask themselves what they can learn from Asia.
In this spirit, Britain should be leading the effort to complete the single market.
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