Sentences with word «isolationist»

The revolution in Japan at the end of 19th century put an end to 300 years of isolationist policy.

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.

On stage, He couldn't help pointing out that the U.S. and Britain were struggling with isolationist political movements at home.

In this comic book fantasy about a powerful, isolationist country with a superhero for a king, Black Panther grapples with difficult subjects that even high school history classes gloss over: That of the terrible legacy of colonialism.

While we are not directly impacted by U.S. politics and economics, if the U.S. follows a more isolationist approach, that will undoubtedly be damaging to the whole European economy.

Writer Ta Nehisi Coates» vision of the powerful isolationist nation plays a part in dispelling racist Western narratives that Africa is somehow inferior to the rest of the world.

Without becoming isolationist, such bioregions would produce much of their own food, fiber and water and recycle their waste.

He's approaching and recommending a very isolationist view of how Alberta should engage with the rest of the country.»

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).

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.

Brown's close aide Douglas Alexander said in a Washington D.C speech, «In the 21st century, strength should be measured on what we can build together... we need to demonstrate by our deeds, words and our actions that we are internationalist, not isolationist, multilateralist, not unilateralist, active and not passive, and driven by core values, consistently applied, not special interests».

While Paul's isolationist foreign policy has been a major weakness with some Republican caucus - goers, Wood, like many other Paul supporters, finds it to be one of his strongest selling points.

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

In an era when US - produced movies shied away from the wars in Europe — largely due to a strong American isolationist movement at the time — Chaplin took a stand and used popular entertainment to cast a light on the issues.

This discourse has enabled the facile division of «East» and «West,» and has played readily into the hands of those with an exclusionary nationalist or isolationist bent.

Cheryl Gillan MP, Secretary of State for Wales, accuses Labour in Wales of taking an increasingly isolationist approach which undermines the Union.

Things would likely improve somewhat — both in the macro environment and in the art market — if populist politics don't win out in their effort to see Britain and the U.S. adopt isolationist policies.

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.

It kind of reminds me of how isolationist America was before we got involved in WWII.

The debate regarding Wakanda's place on the world stage resonates with an increasingly isolationist political climate in America, while Killmonger's understandable motivations touch on justifiable rage at systemic and historic racism against black people since the days of slavery.

As to American Christians, they were heavily Isolationist prior to Pearl Harbor, as they were in WWI.

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.

To Captain America — yes, stick your head in the sand and remain isolationist within your own country.

Bush talked about «the return of isolationist sentiments.»

Before the outbreak of World War I, the Century, not unlike many other American journals, regularly expressed an idealistic and basically isolationist position when considering America's role in the world.

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».

Currently, the consequences of this move towards isolationist policies are not yet foreseeable; however, they will definitely be vast and extend well beyond the United States as a nation of science.

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

May's European elections are an opportunity to take the fight to EU isolationists, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said.

If isolationist policies, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement and weakening the Western alliance, lead to a global trade war and thence to an economic depression, the shutdown of significant chunks of the economy could lead to a larger reduction in greenhouse gas emissions than any careful, deliberate decarbonization policy.

T'Challa was born into the lap of luxury, and while he doesn't hew to Wakanda's isolationist traditions quite as strongly as some of the people around him, he does reap the benefits of a powerful African nation that's neglected the plight of the African diaspora for centuries.

Throughout the film, T'Challa is asked to either continue the traditional isolationist politics of Wakanda or embrace their role as a potential superpower and help bring scientific advancements to the rest of the world.

5: Make New Friends The best academies are anything but isolationist.

You play as a lone samurai in the harbor town of Amihama, which is in a state of upheval due to the clash between isolationists and foreigners.

So are the dual survival strategies of «isolationist survivalism» — possible in, say, the mountains of Wyoming, but few today possess the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue it successfully — and «stockpiling» — the main alternative in non-wilderness areas.

It is neither Christian nor American to inhibit the orderly, legal migration of people into this country based solely on the political expediency of isolationist mentalities.

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.

«This is the America First budget,» Mulvaney said Wednesday, referencing a regular Trump campaign slogan that was borrowed from the pre-World War II protectionist isolationist movement.

Trump's unconventional candidacy was characterized by dark warnings about the future of the country and isolationist promises to be strong on national security, during a presidential race that turned into a referendum on America's fundamental identity and principles.

The reforms have also ran afoul of a growing isolationist trend among the party's influential Tea Party wing.

«Although what he is about to say at the globalist brainstorming feast on Friday remains guesswork, few believe this particular pulpit would be able to make him turn his back on the poster boy of a rising isolationist tendency that many fear is fragmenting the world.»

The leading factors cited were China's crackdown on the yuan, isolationist rumblings in the US and the UK, and increasing overall acceptance.

It is not open to the public which, for a summit advocating pro democracy, does give the event an exclusive and isolationist overtone.