Sentences with phrase «reactionary calls»

So, before we heed reactionary calls to end standardized testing, it's important to remember the decades of willful neglect prior to NCLB.

This progress in building public confidence in the police must not be allowed to unravel as a result of oversimplified and reactionary calls to return to the bad days of untargeted stop and search.

The church - on - campus model is not a reactionary call for a return to pre -»60s «glory days» or to an outdated worship style or study method.

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There is a sense that Peter Lawler is right when he called Obama's SOTU «reactionary.»

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

He especially targeted them during the revolution, calling them «stinking nines,» the lowest rung of class enemies after landlords, wealthy peasants, reactionaries, bad elements, rightists, traitors, spies, and «capitalist roaders.»

Calling John Paul a «reactionary,» Carroll condemns what he sees as the pope's program of «medieval restoration» and its attempted repeal of Vatican II.

He is liberal enough to call Cardinal Ottaviani a «reactionary» but conservative enough to comment that Rocco Buttiglione» rejected as justice minister for the European Union because of his traditional social beliefs» was subject to a «secularist media witch - hunt.»

Saying these superbugs have the potential to pose a greater threat than global warming, Davies called for more proactive medical treatment than prescriptive, reactionary treatment.

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.»

I see the same dynamic at work in Charlie Self's call for a faithful and activist «renewal» over against a reactionary «retrenchment» or a syncretistic «revision.»

Calling these reactionary, fear, war, hate mongering evangelicals, people of faith is a misnomer.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

That's pretty much the only reason to call someone up, being reactionary.

Buffon's comments after the match, in which he questioned the character of Oliver — calling him «a killer, an animal» with «a garbage bin in the place of a heart» — were classic reactionary statements to what was an emotional occasion.

AIMS Ireland strongly refutes the calls today to increase the number of obstetricians in the Irish maternity services as a reactionary measure to this report.

Isabel calls is reactionary eating!

Yet unlike those film's heroes, Richard is neither a Christ figure (in one scene he expressly denies that he is Jesus — or indeed the Devil), nor an agent of divine justice (the film's first line is «God will forgive them, He'll forgive them and allow them into heaven — I can't live with that»)-- and while there is no doubt that his judge - jury - and - executioner attitude towards vigilantism is entirely reactionary, both his morality and his sanity come to be called into question by the film.

Proponents of a core curriculum were called «reactionary in political and social affairs,» whereas progressive educators were «radicals who advocate their educational theories and practices to reconstruct society and change the social order.»

Call of Duty introduced players to the brilliance of squad - based patrol with reactionary AI, forcing players to stick with their soldiers or risk death.

Charlie continues by calling art blogs conformist, reactionary, redundant and self - referential.

Tara observed that «Another trend in curating seems to be what I'll call the «Reactionary Syndrome» Case in point is the Whitney Biennial.

Okay, so you all can get on with calling McCain a reactionary continuer of Bushism.

We have in Canada a Government that calls itself Conservative but is really a radical reactionary diodachi that to the puzzlement of the Canadian scientific community hews loyally to the line of the Bush administration on the matter of climate change.

We don't know if Loughner was answering the call, but given the animus engendered amongst wide layers of borderline crazy reactionaries, something like this was always a distinct possibility.

Steve Fuller has called on «up - wingers» on the Left and Right to unite against reactionary greens and conservatives for a future - oriented transhumanism.

Just as the refugee crisis calls for both humanitarian compassion and military resolve, the solution to crime must include more than reactionary hardline policies after a crime has been committed.

«I came to open dialogue,» Ciabottonia said, adding that calling for a ban on bump stocks was reactionary.

If you're an HR hater, open your mind and understand there are parts of the role you'll never know about that often require timely reactionary measures — I like to call it the «clean - up» crew and it usually involves managers who shirk their own leadership responsibilities to their employees.»

When lost so are the «wits & # of the so - called «confident and accomplished professionals» and they assume a more reactionary stance.