Ejemplos de uso de Occident
1. As the world was ushered into the era of imperialism, as Europe began its relentless political, economic and military expansion, Islam turned into an object of knowledge in opposition to the Occident as its negative pole.
2. Seyed Khatami came here not at the invitation of the US government but to participate in a dialogue with American theologians on the Role of Religion for Peace in modern times when the world is divided and polarized with clashing visions between the Occident and the Orient.
3. "[We need to] create the circumstances in which... the critical issues in the Middle East are dealt with and sorted out, and where people can see out there in the Middle East that there is a perfectly good path to democracy if people want to take it." In the encounter between the Orient and the Occident, between Islam and the West and, more recently, in Israel‘s struggle to survive in the Muslim Middle East, it may be that errors have been made which have contributed to the development of Islamic fanaticism.