Example sentences for: glasnost

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

  • Glasnost in Iraq?

  • Gorbachev, by contrast, desperately tried to save the regime, adopted glasnost and perestroika to that end, and saw the system blow up in his face.

  • But since both perestroika and glasnost' from our point of view do not mean `restructuring' and `publicity' generally, as the English words do to us, but rather refer to reforms specifically initiated by Gorbachev, the Russian words, particularly glasnost', are usually borrowed into English unaltered (except in pronunciation).

  • Also, many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost, which this dictionary represented.

  • Stating that ...many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost..., he cites only one, Republikflucht , which is a true East German neologism, i.e., a new crime--leaving the country-- which didn't exist before and has since been eliminated from the penal code.


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