What's the difference between fabian and reformist?
Fabian
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(2) A report by the Fabian Society calls on the opposition to publish a business charter outlining what firms could expect from a Labour government and say that it plans to work in coalition with the private sector.
(3) Jack Colback, Calum Chambers, Danny Rose and Fabian Delph are included in the the 22-man party for the friendly at Wembley and European Championship qualifier in Basel.
(4) Labour is too big to fail, say the Fabians: that is, the electoral system prevents it from being replaced as the main opposition party.
(5) Speaking at a Fabian Society gathering at the weekend, Lord Mandelson was typically and disarmingly frank.
(6) But the next real opportunity would fall to USA , Jozy Altidore running onto an Fabian Johnson cross that had evaded its intended target, Michael Bradley, in the middle of the box.
(7) Fabian Delph’s Manchester City move shows money talks louder than ever Read more “I think 10 years ago or five years ago every Chelsea supporters would say: ‘I can’t see Chelsea win a title without Frank Lampard.’ And Chelsea won the title without one of the three best players of the last 10 years and we did it.
(8) He recalls as a young Financial Times journalist he first addressed a Fabian conference in 1992 at Ruskin College, Oxford just after losing the 1992 election.
(9) This figure was apparently taken from Fabian society research into potential 2020 target seats, though Mason intends to publish his own analysis of marginal seats soon .
(10) Lord Cooper is a Tory peer and former director of strategy to David Cameron Marcus Roberts of the Fabian Society: ‘After the Trident drama has died down, the serious defence questions will remain’ Marcus Roberts.
(11) In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a " considerable vulnerability to Ukip ".
(12) Why not?” May on Sunday told Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, that the UK remained “steadfastly committed to our support for Gibraltar, its people and its economy”, according to the details of a telephone conversation released by Downing Street.
(13) In the pre-war period Fabian authors such as Leonard Woolf, RH Tawney and GDH Cole created an intellectual basis for democratic socialism.
(14) From the first Fabian tract ( Why are the Many Poor? )
(15) It can be a bit chaotic, with not enough room to sit down.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father Fabian Arias, an immigration advocate in New York City, helps people through the legal process at a hearing last month.
(16) Switzerland created fleeting moments of their own, and Fabian Schär headed one clear chance straight at Lukasz Fabianski.
(17) Fabian Delph gets booked for showing some initiative by trying to win the ball back for his team, albeit by hurtlingh into the back of Daniel Sturridge.
(18) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
(19) Yesterday Miliband's younger brother, Ed, the former energy secretary, launched his bid to lead Labour, telling the Fabian Society that the party had become "ideologically beached".
(20) Public life chaired the Fabian Society and Liberty; past trustee of Action Aid and the Immigration Advisory Service.
Reformist
Definition:
(n.) A reformer.
Example Sentences:
(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) "Agreement in suspension", read the headline of the reformist Etemaad.
(3) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(4) This demonetisation step reinforces Modi’s reformist and anti-corruption credentials and raises the prospect of higher long term growth potential,” they wrote in a note to clients.
(5) It’s clear she lends a sympathetic ear to many reformist ideas; in London last year she said: “We must constantly renew Europe’s political shape so that it keeps up with the times.” Beyond the platitudes, Merkel is open to reforms to the internal market, to competitiveness, to the bureaucracy and even to some of the institutions.
(6) Kaczynski is the co-founder, along with his late twin brother and former Polish president Lech, of the Law and Justice party – the second largest member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group after the Tories.
(7) While quality of build, tenant management and coping with a reformist government will all be key issues for the sector in 2011, financial management will be just as important as frontline services in delivering savings to replace grant funding in the coming years.
(8) He said: "This letter … says with a loud voice that Rouhani has the support of reformists and those seeking for democracy in Iran."
(9) It scarcely mattered that from the reformist point of view it is unambiguously better than the system we start out with.
(10) Enemies dismiss its moderate image and claim it is no different from Shia hardliners such as Mushayma, who called for a republic to replace the Al Khalifa dynasty, launched a campaign of civil disobedience and destroyed a dialogue between the opposition and the reformist Crown Prince Salman that might – just – have defused the crisis.
(11) More recently the so-called Iranian cyber army has attacked reformist websites, and the organisers have had their computer files deleted.
(12) Dercon, who met Fayadh during a trip to Saudi Arabia two years ago, said he was a victim of the power struggles among reformists, pragmatists and ultraconservatives in the Gulf state.
(13) The November crackdown was the biggest use of force against protesters in Burma since Thein Sein's reformist government took office in March 2011.
(14) Only reformists dare to say openly that bread-and-butter problems are linked inextricably to foreign policy.
(15) Economic and political reforms had led to increasing struggles between hardliners and reformists in the party leadership.
(16) Several leading arms-control experts have argued that the residual obstacles are more political than substantial, determined by the need of President Barack Obama’s administration and President Hassan Rouhani’s reformist government in Iran to reassure conservatives at home, rather than by the actual requirements of Iran’s nuclear energy programme or genuine nonproliferation concerns.
(17) Unlike the reformists, Iran's conservatives have so far failed to unite.
(18) Hedayat said: “Rafsanjani was the last influential figure reformists had within the power system, a person who could keep the hope for reform alive.
(19) Furthermore, the Tories are allied with PiS in the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European parliament.
(20) Although Kaminski was nominated by the new Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) created by David Cameron, I decided to take the issue head on, even at the discomfiture of my own party.