Sentences with phrase «reactionary positions»

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

After dabbling in the fashionable abstract expressionist style of the late 1980's that celebrated individualism, Scott formulated a reactionary position designed to question the basic concept of originality.

Not exact matches

What I think Jerry was hoping for was that the Atheists here stop reacting in a reactionary sort of way and start stating their position on their own two feet; in other words, come up with proof of their claim «there is no god».

• After three months of cruel interrogation and torture of approximately seven hundred people arrested in connection with the July 20, 1944 plot on Hitler's life, the Gestapo concluded in its final report: «The entire inner alienation from the ideas of National Socialism which characterized the men of the reactionary conspiratorial circle expresses itself above all in their position on the Jewish question.

Similarly, severe racial discrimination was once the position of the conservative majority, but today it is coming to be seen as a reactionary stance.

[just wanted David to know my positions do not come from naivety or reactionary ideas]

Obnoxious evangelicals who do not mind their own business and who do not respect even the most basic tenets of Christianity are not in a position to whine when someone challenges their reactionary political agenda.

The league's position, ideas, and rationale for pursuing those ideas is really rather reactionary.

It's also an interesting wedge issue, positioning Sinn Fein as modernisers with a commitment to «equality» against the «reactionary» DUP.

Their campaign mode approach was very neatly done, extracting just the right amount of support to this thoroughly difficult issue without actually descending into an entirely reactionary or counterproductive position.

Fuller's framework explains why ostensibly lefty environmentalists like Naomi Klein can adopt similar back - to - the - land, localist positions as right - wing doomsday preppers and reactionary anti-urbanites.

The reason why I am maintaining such a conservative position («restrictionist» according to Jordan — which a fan of Finnegan's Wake would readily decode as «reactionary») is that we have to be honest and admit that the the innovation comes at an ethical price.

Further, it is necessary to ensure that adaptive measures are preemptive rather than reactionary and that communities are in a position to respond from the outset.