Sentences with phrase «as isolationist»

Cameron does not want his party to be seen as isolationist: and he wants the world to know that's how he stands.

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Some countries might raise taxes on American goods just as a reaction to a more isolationist economic policy, experts said.

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He consistently opposed what he called «nation - building» as an American responsibility and called for more «humility» in our relation to the rest of the world, striking an isolationist chord that has been perennial in our tradition.

The recovery of the Calvinist tradition in Baptist life can serve as protection against sectarian and isolationist impulses.

In the immediate aftermath of the «war to end all wars,» Wilsonian idealism was displaced by the «normalcy» of Warren G. Harding and the rise of a strong isolationist current in American politics» a tide of public opinion so formidable that even as strong and crafty a president as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was compelled to tack carefully across it, even as he prepared the United States for its inevitable entry into World War II.

Though the New Deal was itself certainly of major importance to the political formation of what has come to be known as the organized Jewish community, for many if not most Jews Roosevelt's greatness lay not so much in the fact that he was a liberal in opposition to conservatives as it did in the fact that in the face of Nazi Germany he was an interventionist in firm and successful opposition to the isolationists.

As I noted, America in 1940 still had a strong isolationist tendency.

Yet, even as the movement restated the evils of the Great War, some peace elements came to feel that they were irrelevant to the European situation of the late 1930s, while others found themselves uncomfortably allied with isolationists at home.

Devout Mormons are, as a function of their beliefs, isolationists and exclusionists.

It seems the resurgence has more to do with the limited government and isolationist elements of American conservatism, a group that Walter Russell Mead labels as Jeffersonian, and which is more sceptical of the grand foreign policy visions supported by the Bush administration.

Brown's instincts are for a broad pitch, projecting Labour as the party responding sensibly and fairly to international and domestic challenges while seeking to place the Conservatives on the isolationist right.

Even the U.S. was transformed, though no battles had been fought on its soil — after the war and the economic changes it wrought, the traditionally isolationist country was firmly established as a first - rate world power, hard as its politicians might try to retreat from that reality.

This is double extra important since US is not perceived as willing to back up its power with kinetic action after isolationist stance of both Obama and Trump (the latter declaring he will withdraw US forces from Syria).

It is not even 1999 when even then it was seen as nearly a crime to report favourably on what the BBC described in a supposedly neutral statement about those who want to leave the EU as «isolationists wanting to cut the UK off from the world».

Another problem with the isolationist style of training the core musculature is that many of the crucial muscles that are necessary to properly brace and move your core are neglected, such as the transverse abdominus, the spinal erectors, and the upper back muscles.

After his father, King T'Chaka (Kani, The Ghost and the Darkness), is assassinated, T'Challa ascends to the throne as king of the (fictional) majestic African nation of Wakanda, a proud, protectionist nation that that had never been colonized by European influence, and which prides itself on isolationist policies that keep themselves self - sustaining and avoiding getting into protracted wars.

T'Challa isolationist outlook helps no one and, even as that begins to melt away, we are confronted with someone who puts his own people before anybody else.

It's a deeply affecting film that touches on race and international politics in a way that's far more interesting and insightful than any of its predecessors by far, as one of its central themes is the idea of Wakanda's isolationist policy — it exists for its people, and it protects its people, but what of the people outside its borders?

On the surface, Black Panther centers on the title character, prince - turned - king T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), as he ascends to the throne of the fictional Wakanda, a super-advanced, secretive, eastern African country, and confronts the challenges with leadership, including rivals to the throne and Wakanda's deliberately isolationist way of life.

Following the events of Civil War, where we were first introduced to T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), prince of the isolationist African country of Wakanda and the latest to take the ancestral mantle of the country's vibranium - coated protector, Black Panther sees T'Challa take his birthright as king after the death of his father T'Chaka (John Kani).

Answering the critics, Mitchell Stevens portrays home schoolers as communitarians, not isolationists.

Begun in 1948, Motherwell's Elegies were intended as public laments, deeply political in their condemnation of the violence of the Spanish Civil War and the isolationist fascism of General Francisco Franco.

The isolationist tendency of this administration to a degree reprises the post-Great War national mood in 1930 when Wood painted his most well - known picture, American Gothic, while privileging the same whiteness that Wood's world construed as the default for the nation.

As Adrian Searle wrote in the Guardian, the shortlist suggests a pointed rebuke to the reactionary and isolationist thinking of Brexit - era Britain.

We can understand the US refusal to enter the Second World War and its refusal to join global efforts to tackle climate change as the effect of supremacy of isolationist tendencies.

As an allied country that looks to be moving away from a left of centre regime, the EU, I would certainly encourage the US establishment not to become isolationist but remain in all current international bodies with a view to forging a new way forward for the world.

As President Trump pursues a regressive, isolationist agenda, business is stepping up to address climate change, promote equality and protect human rights, and create economic opportunity.

«Nothing unusual - ists» always fail to look at the whole planet, always selecting a region in favour of their premise, and then they pounce on that single area forcing the view that the rest of our planet is likewise the same, they should be regarded as climate isolationists, basically thinking that one region has absolutely nothing to do with others.

It is also important to note that Slow Cities could too easily be misinterpreted as regressive, isolationist, or backward communities.

However, if the U.S. were to introduce substantive policy change and adopt an isolationist stance, that could potentially prompt foreign investors to hit the pause button or take a more wait - and - see approach as it relates to new U.S. real estate investment, adds DeCoster.