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reactionary

, reactionist
1. of, relating to, or characterized by reaction, esp against radical political or social change
2. a person opposed to radical change
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The fact is that the exclusion of the danger of "religious reactionism" from the Red Book represented a "historical" reconciliation between AtatE-rk's institution and the Islamists, whom Erdoy-an and his party represent - a reconciliation in which the United States and NATO played a major role.
She enacted the type of aesthetic reactionism to the forces of modernity that looked to the past for inspiration and solace.
It was also the aesthetic manifestation of a profound, growing and dangerous political reactionism.
And when more deeply considered, do we actually know who Cohen is laughing at--conservative citizens of the "red" states, Americans in general, Euro-American civilization as such, or the cultural reactionism of the Third World?
Along these lines one recent writer complains: Agent causation is a frankly mysterious doctrine, positing something unparalleled by anything we discover in the causal processes of chemical reactionism, nuclear fission and fusion, magnetic attraction, hurricanes, volcanoes, or such biological processes as metabolism, growth, immune reactions, and photosynthesis.
It's no more than finishing a degree in a reasonable timeframe, reducing the months after graduating in which failed exams can be retaken to 18 months and abolishing the compulsory textbooks paid for by taxpayers, which are often a stitch-up by publishing companies and academics: hardly rampant right wing reactionism.
As Shain mentions, "diaspora hard liners are said to care less about the homeland's present and future than about past's dead." (63) Mahcupyan also argues that the protective instinct created by a sudden change of living space creates, in the end, a reactionism that freezes time, fixes the community, and obstructs politics by pushing it into irrational channels.
Virtually strangled in infancy by post-civil-war judicial reactionism, long frustrated by judicial neglect, the theory of equal protection may yet take its rightful place in the unfinished Constitutional struggle for democracy." Id.
It has defined the major threats to the state as separatism and "reactionism" or Islamic fundamentalism.
This extended, frantic thrash against the current, the last 30 years of his life, served Ford's memory poorly; he washed up, a bigoted lump, on the wrong side of history, a monument to the tragic reactionism of self-made men.
Efforts on the part of Native Americans to challenge the varied forms of oppression have elicited remarkably consistent patterns of white reactionism. Native American nations and individuals who have resisted white encroachment have been exterminated, relocated, persecuted, prosecuted, harassed, and beaten.
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