Example sentences for: nehru

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

  • Egalitarian and agnostic, Nehru passed laws against the injustice of the caste system, child-marriage, and the treatment of women in Hindu households, but century-old customs die hard: before his death in 1964, he asked that his ashes be scattered in the Yamuna river at Delhi and the Ganga at Allahabad, and without ritual.

  • Nehru’s Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.

  • Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band outfits and Janis Joplin's feathery ensembles and George Clinton's outsize rabbit-and-fox fur coat and David Bowie's metallic clown suit and Madonna's peach-colored conical bras and Beck's cream cotton Nehru getup and Tori Amos' (Tori Amos'?)

  • Rejecting his mentor Gandhi’s faith in a village-based democracy, Nehru worked to make India a fully industrialized society on the basis of democratic socialism.

  • Mizrahi put doormen in "understated" four-button suits, bellboys in Nehru jackets, and receptionists in "baby-blue twin sets."


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