(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.
Terrorist
Definition:
(n.) One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(3) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(4) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(5) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(6) Which brings us to the next fundamental question: Was it a terrorist attack?
(7) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(8) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(9) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
(10) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(11) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
(12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
(13) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(14) [The] execution was ordered by the IS terrorists,” it says.
(15) The pair arrived back in the office shortly before 6pm, as reports that the incident was a terrorist attack began to gain traction.
(16) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
(17) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(18) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
(19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(20) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.