(a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
(n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(2) "A Walker victory in Wisconsin … could provide a defining moment for the Romney campaign – and for the forces of responsible Republican reform against reactionary Democratic opposition."
(3) With me, you won't have to choose between whether to accept a reactionary assault on the welfare state in exchange for greater civil liberties.
(4) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
(5) Those for leaving are boringly predictable and mostly reactionary (with a few on the left who seem to think that moving backwards and out is moving forwards); reason enough to vote to stay in!
(6) At the very least it will drag the Conservatives on to Ukip's reactionary agenda and, among pragmatic, young or black and minority ethnic voters, this will be at a considerable cost.
(7) So it was a reactionary thing to, 'They think I can't be crazy any more!'"
(8) A man of such ferocious spirit should not be remembered as a reactionary prude.
(9) Although they have a distinctive training advantage in the emerging quality-driven industry over that of physician-M.B.A.s, most physician-attorneys have continued to use these skills in the reactionary world of litigation, which will rapidly go the way of the dinosaur in the 1990s.
(10) The lack of unity between the National Health Service trade unions and the reactionary role of the professional body were notable.
(11) I was able to live a normal life for a year until the government banned [it] in another reactionary response to media scaremongering."
(12) Analysis of a larger series and follow-up of these patients are indicated to establish the possible reactionary nature of mast cell reactivity in lymphomas, and the prognostic bearing, if any.
(13) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(14) KL It's nothing to do with you because your paper is a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots.
(15) Along with Stevie Nicks - who has cited the band as her favourite singing group and whose song Landslide is covered on Home - Harris represents a more modern spirit of country as opposed to the reactionary world of Nashville.
(16) Other complications included a temporary Horner's syndrome in one patient, a pneumothorax in the immediate post-operative period in another and a unilateral non-infective reactionary pleural effusion in a third.
(17) We learned that the Human Rights Act will now be built on as opposed to demolished – a potent example of how a Liberal Democrat presence is helping progressive currents within the Conservatives to prevail over reactionary tides.
(18) Seriously though, hands up who's surprised that old people have reactionary views.
(19) A reactionary conservative approach to immigration – closing all the borders to keep the world at bay – can't work for our trading nation.
(20) However you dress it up it is a reactionary political philosophy.” He added: “I personally don’t think we will win by saying we are more Scottish or by engaging in this ridiculous thing where a lot of power in Brussels is fine but power in London is absolutely terrible.” He continued: “The SNP have achieved this remarkable feat, they are a government that is allowed to behave like an opposition.
Reactive
Definition:
(a.) Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(2) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(3) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(4) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
(5) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(6) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(7) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(8) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
(9) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(10) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(11) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(12) We recently demonstrated that functional change in SSI was possible simply by replacing the amino acid residue at the reactive P1 site (methionine 73) of SSI.
(13) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
(14) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(15) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
(16) Cytolytic T lymphocytes lysing virus-infected and uninfected myocytes and heart-reactive autoantibodies occur in both myocarditis-susceptible strains.
(17) Subunits maintained under the above ionic conditions were compared with 30S and 50S particles at low (6 mM) magnesium concentration with respect to the reactivity of individual ribosomal proteins to lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination.
(18) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(19) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(20) Using an antibody to the nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR), we examined dendritic reticulum cells (DRCs) immunohistochemically in 62 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes from patients with reactive follicular hyperplasia or with various types of lymphoma.