Example sentences for: confucian

How can you use “confucian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thanks to the emancipated Confucian tradition, Christian missionaries were usually welcomed, although they hardly achieved mass conversions.

  • Asia's authoritarians are wrong: Freedom, tolerance, and respect for individual rights are integral to the Confucian, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions.

  • Combining Shinto ritual with official Buddhist conformity, they revived the Confucian ideals of filial piety and obedience to authority to bolster their government.

  • At the north end of the complex there is a statue of Confucius and a collection of 18th-century stone drums used in Confucian ceremonies.

  • In China, the team met a 6-year-old boy who has developed server software based on Confucian principles and the sayings of the late chairman Deng Xiaoping ("Better a pig with HTML than a donkey who knows DOS").


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