6 sentences with 'modernity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word modernity and other words derived from it.
• « Some of the characteristics that historians often associate with modernity are representative governments, capitalist economies and (relatively, in the case of early modern states) religious toleration. All these things first converged in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. »
• « Anti-Jewish hatred, however, did not disappear. Instead, in the modern era, Jews were vilified for representing all that was wrong with modernity itself. »
• « Between the vilification of the evils of modernity and the newfound obsession with race that swept through European and American societies in the late 19th century, there was plenty of fuel for the rise of anti-Semitic politics. »
• « Alone among the monarchs of the great powers, the tsars had successfully resisted most of the forces of modernity that had fundamentally changed the political structure of the rest of Europe. »
• « However, it was during his reign that modernity finally caught up with Russia. The Russian state was able to control the press and punish dissent in the early years of the 20th century, but then events outside its immediate control undermined its ability to exercise complete control over Russian society. »
• « Democracy is a political system developed in the Western world during modernity. In a classical sense, it is associated with a government elected by the people, but it also includes certain cultural guidelines: plurality, tolerance, respect for individual rights. »