Sentences with phrase «by reactionary»

In Michigan, as had been the case in England until 1948, the doctrine of «common employment», invented by the reactionary Lord Abinger in 1837, prevented an injured worker from suing his employer for damages when, as was usually the case, the accident was caused by a fellow worker.

«Under considerable attack by the reactionary forces of Exxon, under the guise of one Steve McIntyre — a Canadian — Professor Mann nobly stood his ground for the past six years.

While the other side were treated as thought they were the exact opposite: only motivated by reactionary political beliefs, bought by big oil, not scientists in any sense of the word and you had to ignore every last thing they ever said because they were evil.

And yet the self - definition of German artists of his generation who have remained in Germany, if not in Berlin, appears no less determined by their reactionary relation to a cultural mainstream, which usually means an American one.

We weren't surprised by their reactionary positioning and we refused to lose our singular focus amidst being mired in various challenges.

It's a big shift from the typical attacks on atheists and agnostics previously led by reactionary or radical religious figures.

In 2004, the party was given an unexpected boost by winning the support of former Labour MP and television presenter Robert Kilroy - Silk, who got himself elected to the European parliament, was appalled by the reactionary politics of his new colleagues, failed to win the leadership and, in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity».

Disenchantment, however, can also be exploited by reactionary forces and demagogues.

E.g. the story of the young Italo - American who hijacked a passenger plane to get home from California to Rome was taken up without protest even by the reactionary mass press and undoubtedly correctly understood by its readers.

The so - called «War on Christmas» is actually a War on Atheists being conducted by reactionary theocrats.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

«We are surrounded by reactionaries.

Gladstone byRoy Jenkins as it's a brilliantly written study of a maturing, progressive prime minister prematurely hounded from office by reactionaries at the age of 82.

This is a masterpiece that seems to have been forgotten by history or marginalized as a mere political statement and unfairly maligned by reactionaries who either haven't seen the film or didn't bother paying attention to it.

Not exact matches

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

Time - refugees from a reactionary, regressive and male - dominated future USA, they wished to journey back to the good ol' Puritan days of America when a good witch - burning could solve all society's woes — they just missed by 300 years.

It is more than a little bewildering how a trade deal negotiated by the Stephen Harper regime — widely recognized as one of the most reactionary governments in Canadian history — can by some magical process become a truly progressive agreement because the government — not the agreement — changed.

Lasch spent much of his career resuscitating the legacy of a specifically American populism, which he thought was tarnished by a false association with rabble rousing and reactionary politics.

Liberal Islam was all too easily presented by Muslim reactionaries as a kind of Islamic Stockholm syndrome, which no self - respecting Muslim could endure.

By making this stuff into literal facts, you've perverted the religion itself into nothing more than a reactionary edifice.

Guilt by association has been a frequently invoked form of polemics — and an effective one, since the ecology movement has been a bizarre congeries of political reactionaries, romantic conservationists, political cop - outs, solitary poets, anarchic life - stylers, as well as genuine political radicals, serious - minded reformers, and level - headed natural scientists.

When the FAITH Movement was founded in 1972, it was seen by many as essentially reactionary — reacting to the often confused situation in the Church in those years immediately following the Second Vatican Council.

Of course he was also highly praised by many parents, alumni and the two New Haven papers, which probably bothered him, as both are owned by one exceedingly reactionary family.

And the Marxist idealists are simply naïve when they believe that, once a reactionary government has been overthrown by violence, a just and peaceful regime will be established.

He was labelled «right wing» and «reactionary» by the bien pensant.

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

• A U.S. aid package to Nicaragua approved by the U.S. Congress in 1980, a year after the ouster of the U.S. - backed dictatorship, targeted the most reactionary business organization for substantial aid.

This is the case, for instance with most resurgent or reactionary movement and that is the reason why such movements are described by the term [loaded now with negative connotation] fundamentalism.

And Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most renowned Afro - American woman writers, wrote reactionary essays (some of which appeared in the Reader's Digest) and gave her allegiance to the Republican Party — facts often overlooked by her contemporary feminist followers.

Some in the church tend to believe that the seminary — at least «liberal» interdenominational seminaries like ours — are, with horrendous results, hopelessly detached from the realities of the workaday world and — such is the mind of our most bitter (and most reactionary) critics — that our graduates are rendered in fact maladroit if not downright incompetent by the very training designed to fit them for ministry.

However he was not actually a conservative by temperament and his theology is not at all reactionary nor merely doctrinally assertive.

Rosmini must, therefore, be consistently presented as a «progressive» hero, whose life's work was continually being foiled by ecclesiastical and political reactionaries.

From the extreme left who argue that the decline of Catholic faith and practice is due to the reactionary and intransigent leadership of an over centralised Roman bureaucracy, to the extreme right who argue that the same phenomenon is caused by the left wing leanings and excessive tolerance of the same bureaucracy in the face of a liberal ideology at variance with the true faith.

By adopting a purely reactionary stance against the idealism of Hegel (and the philosophical tradition in general) Nietzsche ends up providing us with a vision of nature and the world which is overly narrow in scope.

Although Barth himself was one of Hitlerism's «most determined foes,» Barthian theology abetted Hitler's type of reactionary politics: «Here,» said Niebuhr, «religious absolutism which begins by making the conscience sensitive to all human weakness ends in complacency toward social injustice» (June 6, 1934).

The breakdown of the Egyptian empire and the circumstances contributory to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, besides hosts of incidents from those days to the present, show that organized religion, strange as it appears, can be no less an obstacle to social and political advance than the reactionary policies of vested political or economic interests.

Of course, similar judgments are constantly passed by theological reactionaries, and there are many who regard a theology even on secular terms (such as I should want to defend) as equally out of the question.

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

On this score, suffice it to add only that if a resurgent fundamentalism confirms that the truth of the Christian witness continues to be a problem for theology as well as the church, the support currently being shown by Christians for the reactionary politics of the New Right makes only too clear that the same is true of the justice of their witness as well.

But in the dramatic opening sessions of the council in the fall of 1962, the assembled bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church, headed by those from Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, refused to follow the agenda set by the traditionalist Curia, repudiated their reactionary schemata, and unexpectedly showed themselves to be, in the majority, progressives open to John XXIII's agenda of sweeping pastoral renewal.

There are some distinguished and competent thinkers and writers in those circles, to be sure, but by - and - large the support for it has come either from ignorant laypeople who find its authoritative manner of speaking emotionally appealing or from those who belong to what might be called reactionary conservatism and who are annoyed by much that is found in the modern world and eager to return to «the old time religion.»

The music of one, almost reactionary in its traditionalism, was written by a relatively unknown composer at the beginning of his career.

He has been labeled a reactionary by some, an antiintellectual bent on undermining the scholarly enterprise by others, and to still others he is a brooding, stubborn, unimaginative thinker.

Taking this logic to its conclusion, any attempt to resist the process of globalization is, by definition, reactionary and constitutes an anti-development response.

They represented the old ideals; they were often, it may be, of semi-nomadic habits; they were reactionaries against the new customs and especially the new luxury and inequality represented by the nobles and the court.

The implication that the reactionary Pio Nono somehow invented papal infallibility ex nihilo and then imposed it, and that this indictment, by extension, applies also to John Paul II, is simply laughable.

This rewriting of history often goes hand - in - glove with attempts to celebrate Pope Francis's welcome stress on the divine mercy — another key John Paul II theme — by subtly reinforcing the secular world's stereotypes of Catholicism's pre-Francis leaders as hidebound, rule - obsessed reactionaries.

The Church has been dominated by unforgiving reactionaries for too long.

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(2) somewhat linked to the previous comment in that we never seem to be prepared to hit the ground running with our best potential lineup come opening day... it's become so common, in recent years, that many fans actually hope we stumble a little in the first couple games just so it forces Wenger to bring in reinforcements... unfortunately this can be problematic, thus one of the most common phrases associated with Wenger, «panic buy»... this situation is also negatively impacted by the ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the summer months... right now I'm watching the Super Cup and not a single player is unavailable to either manager, including Ronaldo, yet somehow we have a list of players half a mile long that haven't seen game - time so far this preseason... I can only assume this is a reactionary policy created due to the multitude of injuries this club has faced over the years... just another sign of the fragility that permeates this club