What's the difference between filibusterism and freebooting?
Filibusterism
Definition:
(n.) The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such astonishing feats of endurance are less common these days, the US Senate seeking to head off filibusterers at the pass and many legislatures, including the US House of Representatives, and both houses of the Australian parliament, imposing strict rules on how long politicians can speak for.
(2) At a mere 15 hours and 30 minutes, the personal best one of the Senate's most accomplished filibusterers, the Louisiana Democrat Huey Long, in June 1935, no longer makes it into the top three.
Freebooting
Definition:
(n.) Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.
(a.) Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) , a real triple-album of a movie, starring Ed Harris as US freebooter William Walker, who invaded Nicaragua in the 1850s and set himself up as president - before being executed by firing squad in Honduras in 1860.
(2) Seen by its proponents as an important check on power and by critics as an infuriating waste of time, the filibuster – from the Spanish filibustero , or freebooting – is an attempt by a minority political party to stall a bill, and hopefully prevent a vote, by endlessly debating it.
(3) To have a capitalist stock market being played like a casino by tens of millions of freebooting speculators right in the middle of a society still purporting to be socialist and run by a communist party with a deep affinity for rigid, Leninist, interventionist controls speaks to the contradictory nature of the modern Chinese dilemma.