Example sentences for: glasnost

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

  • Currently two Russian words are challenging correspondents, among others, to find English equivalents: perestroika and glasnost '. The first of these Gorbachevian buzzwords can be handily calqued into English as `restructuring.

  • Where is the linguistic glasnost?

  • Glasnost in Iraq?

  • He is downright silly to claim that Meinungsfreiheit (it should be one word and capitalized, as all German nouns are), Weltreise (obviously not Wettreise, which would mean a trip to make a bet--only Phileas Fogg combined the two), and Freizeit have now found a place in the world of linguistic glasnost.

  • … A 1980s editorial predicts: "Things will come flying through the windows of glasnost that Mikhail Gorbachev and the architects of radical reform in the Soviet Union neither foresee nor completely control."


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