ideals

Example Sentences

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Its roots are strictly European, as are, even today, many of its ideals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Perhaps the ideals of the Declaration do still live in the hearts and minds of ordinary people who can see the shared humanity in all of us.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026

For decades Auroville held fast to its lofty ideals as a self-governing haven for yoga enthusiasts and seekers of spiritual freedom of "all creeds and nationalities".

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

That’s my hope as I open “Middlemarch” and follow Dorothea Brooke while she struggles to reconcile her high ideals with the messy realities of provincial England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

We believed it was important to open the defense with a statement of our politics and ideals, which would establish the context for all that followed.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela