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Permanent peace is possible, says the reactionary Norman Bentwich, only if the principles of Christianity become the basis of public policy and social life.
Movie subtitles
Paranoid and reactionary.
You're a reactionary.
You know that worthless butler of mine, that reactionary?
It's the most reactionary of professions.
Your party has signed a treaty with reactionary forces.
I may be reactionary. but this is absolutely astounding.
They're cracking down on reactionary elements.
Yes, sir, I've been thinking it over, and when I called you a reactionary, that's merely my generation's term for your generation.
He says that anyone who wanted to sell at a profit was a reactionary.
He's a reactionary. - A what?
And yet, you know me. I'm no reactionary.
It is just that reactionary food which my doctor makes me eat in my room.
Takes a reactionary to play one.
I'm not a reactionary, you know that.
Or perhaps he's just. Out of control, irrational. Paranoid and reactionary.
I don't believe anything. You don't like your flock to see you get bravery lessons from an old reactionary priest!
The world's most reactionary priest would have blown up.
You're playing against the reactionary team.
Now that the town is rid of its worst Black reactionary enemies of the people will not sabotage social progress!
He's an old mummy reactionary!
We can't honor that rotten reactionary!
Let's think if this is the right time to leave with reactionary's heads raising again.
Me? What an idea. - Would you ask a reactionary what he thinks too?
That dirty reactionary will go right to hell.
Some reactionary blew it up with a bomb.
No! You reactionary!
Or perhaps he's just out of control, irrational, paranoid and reactionary.
Your party has formed a pact with reactionary forces.
A true reactionary!
It's so formal! Very reactionary.
Under that mask of humanism, you're a reactionary, just as I am.
Paragraph 89. The main reason for these errors is that men claiming to be of the Left continue to accept Communist votes even as they form alliances with reactionary forces.
Reactionary.
I will just add that it would be funny, crazily funny, atrocely funny, for the world proletariat to receive such a christmas gift from the hands of that old switz reactionary.
I won't risk the life of any comrade in this wheeling-reactionary's place.
No more reactionary theories!
Reactionary!
He must be morally disarmed. His reactionary instinct for private property must be suppressed.
News and current affairs
The notion promoted by Romney and his boosters that only US military power can preserve world order is deeply reactionary.
It would be a mistake to dismiss anxiety about immigration as mere bigotry or apprehension about the globalized economy as simply reactionary.
Today's Russian army is not the bastion of reactionary monarchism and anti-Semitism that shaped French officers' behavior in the Dreyfus affair.
In China, like the US, reactionary groups often congregate on line, but with one important difference.
The remarkable thing about his brand of leftism is how reactionary it is.
Most aspiring Republican presidential candidates are not only extreme, but also more reactionary than Corbyn.
Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.
It is possible that his image as a right-of-center democrat conceals a reactionary who would like for Serbia to restore its pre-WWII monarchy and for the Orthodox Church to play a major role in political and social life.
Obviously, calls for greater balance in historical education raise the specter of reactionary overkill: either complete affirmation of past Japanese conduct or other forms of anti-Chinese bias.
In this sense, the Charter is reactionary: if it is included in the constitution, it will impede the development of rights and responsibilities appropriate to the future.
In 1990, Tudor set up a weekly magazine through which he incited vicious and reactionary campaigns.
Not unlike 19 th Century Poland's doomed, romantic uprisings against Tsarist Russia, most European observers viewed the country's religious vitality under communism as anachronistic, if not reactionary.
So the Russia that George W. Bush will visit is one of post-revolutionary economic stabilization, accompanied by a reactionary struggle against central authority - a struggle waged not by Russia's regions, but by the state's own bureaucrats.
Some might argue that it is Putin's revitalization of central power that is reactionary.
But, as countries like Egypt, Syria, and Lybia might be indicating, hereditary succession is not an inherently reactionary move.
True, the Congress of Vienna is mostly viewed as marking the victory of Europe's reactionary forces after the defeat of Napoleon.
This is remarkable in a country that for as long as anyone remembers has been ruled, by hook or by crook, by a reactionary oligarchy.
The immigrants themselves, they suggested, might have reactionary moral codes, but their children, growing up in today's Britain, America, or Continental Europe, would be quite different.
Those advocating extremism in the name of religion are active, well resourced, and - whatever the reactionary nature of their thinking - brilliant at using modern communication and technology.
The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.
Instead, Putin turned for inspiration to Nicholas I, the most reactionary of Russia's nineteenth-century czars.
Whether he wishes to sing God Save the Queen at public events seems a rather trivial matter. The remarkable thing about his brand of leftism is how reactionary it is.
It is no exaggeration to say that the EU is currently both internally and externally threatened by reactionary nationalism, which is why the next euro crisis will come in the form of a political crisis.
Putin's defiant foreign policy is a response - mediated by an authoritarian political tradition, the reactionary tenets of Orthodox Christianity, and pride in Russia's vast geography and natural wealth - to the humiliating loss of an empire.
Not all popular demands for freedom succeed: in the confusion, reactionary forces can make their move.