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  • Rather than see it in that light, Americans continue to bury their heads in the sand as they race across its deserts seeking to "Westernize" the "Arab" and to "bring Democracy" to the shores of the Middle East.

    Ray Hanania: Shoe Throwing Incident Exposes Western Failure to Understand Arab World 2009

  • His later change of name to Kemal Atatürk was only part of his driving will to "Westernize" Turkey, Latinize its script, abolish male and female religious headgear, adopt surnames, and in general erase the Islamic caliphate that today's fundamentalists hope to restore.

    Mind the Gap 2004

  • His later change of name to Kemal Atatürk was only part of his driving will to "Westernize" Turkey, Latinize its script, abolish male and female religious headgear, adopt surnames, and in general erase the Islamic caliphate that today's fundamentalists hope to restore.

    Mind the Gap 2004

  • Marketing campaigns and word of mouth may "Westernize" Chinese consumers; but in the interim, relatively tepid demand for some of the goods in which U.S. producers have a comparative advantage may tilt China's trade balance with the U.S. into a surplus.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Sun Bin 2005

  • Marketing campaigns and word of mouth may "Westernize" Chinese consumers; but in the interim, relatively tepid demand for some of the goods in which U.S. producers have a comparative advantage may tilt China's trade balance with the U.S. into a surplus.

    After the RMB Reval Sun Bin 2005

  • While Dead Rising 2 is still being developed by Capcom's Japanese team (including original producer Keiji Inafune), Canadian studio Blue Castle Games will help to "Westernize" the sequel, as well as contribute new ideas.

    1UP RSS feed Frank Cifaldi 2010

  • While Dead Rising 2 is still being developed by Capcom's Japanese team (including original producer Keiji Inafune), Canadian studio Blue Castle Games will help to "Westernize" the sequel, as well as contribute new ideas.

    1UP RSS feed Frank Cifaldi 2010

  • Much like the Industrial Complex that provides expensive industries to 'Westernize' small countries that can't afford it, or the Military Complex that provides expensive industries to

    MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory Jim Untershine 2009

  • "Our struggle against ethnic splittism, in essence, is a struggle against Western hostile forces 'plots to' Westernize 'and' split 'our country, it is the continuation of the struggle the Chinese people have had for 100 years or more against imperialist plans to split China."

    Breaking News - The Post Chronicle 2008

  • "Our struggle against ethnic splittism, in essence, is a struggle against Western hostile forces 'plots to' Westernize 'and' split 'our country, it is the continuation of the struggle the Chinese people have had for 100 years or more against imperialist plans to split China."

    Breaking News - The Post Chronicle 2008

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