Paranoid and reactionary.

The French Reactionary Revolution

It's the most reactionary of professions.

I may be reactionary... but this is absolutely astounding.

Many are reactionary religious fundamentalists who abhor the concept of democracy.

On one side, there are Islamists and their exclusivist and reactionary worldview.

In 1990, Tudor set up a weekly magazine through which he incited vicious and reactionary campaigns.

Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.

All evil, dark and reactionary forces are bound to be swept aside by the torrents of history.

Despite all this, the reactionary serfdom system had an adverse effect on the development of the Russian Navy.

He also talks about details of revolution and expropriation in order not to end in a reactionary way.

But, as countries like Egypt, Syria, and Lybia might be indicating, hereditary succession is not an inherently reactionary move.

From 1814 until the death of Pope Gregory XVI in 1846, the popes followed a reactionary policy in the Papal States.

Their release would constitute another victory of humanism and democracy over the totalitarian and reactionary forces which cynically violate elementary human rights.

The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.

And yet the reactionary revolutionary movement of the type that we are witnessing a backlash against the inevitable consequences of globalization remains unmistakably French.

And this is a fundamental equation. History taught us that freedom and liberation cannot be achieved without facing reactionary violence (except by revolutionary resistance).

Tocqueville is justly famous for rejecting reactionary nostalgia and regarding democracy s triumph as our destiny, while warning against the dangers that democracy holds for liberty.

We are acutely conscious of the challenges posed to peaceful transition by extremist and reactionary forces, which threaten to disrupt and derail the ongoing peace process.

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.

2. America once defined free trade for the new global economy, but many Americans are now using demands for fair trade to impose reactionary and protectionist trade policies.

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.

Coverage of the news in conservative newspapers have largely been reactionary to other media, rather than focused on covering the news, or why these assaults have been occurring.

Such an uprising, as that recommended by the Schapper Willich group would easily be crushed by the police and the armed forces of the reactionary governments of Europe.

His ambition should have been to tie Russia s future to that of Europe. Instead, Putin turned for inspiration to Nicholas I, the most reactionary of Russia s nineteenth century czars.

In a situation of confusion and uncertainty, and with no solution in sight, the reactionary ultra rightists and neo fascists are getting stronger politically and becoming more vocal and strident.

The goal of this movement was to create a united Italian republic through promoting a general insurrection in the Italian reactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian Empire.

Terrorists try to usurp the role played by secular and democratic nationalist forces, and their reactionary vision can only strengthen reaction, while their brutal anti humanism dooms them to certain failure.

In the Polish capital, Catholic and conservative parties, together with the Solidarity Trade Union, inspired by a reactionary Christian radio network, Radio Maria, gathered for political and cultural, rather than economic, reasons.

At the same time, the brutal anti humanism, the absence of any realistic programme for social regeneration and, above all, the extreme reactionary vision of the terrorists can only strengthen the reaction.

So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.

To outsiders, the region is virtually synonymous with political polarization. Fatigue clad guerrillas, charismatic populists, and reactionary military junta leaders have long cut much larger figures than moderate politicians in boring gray suits.

In retrospect, it is remarkable that this distinction managed to define partisan political allegiances for more than 200 years, absorbing both the great reactionary and radical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.

Marx returned to Paris, which was then under the grip of both a reactionary counter revolution and a cholera epidemic, and was soon expelled by the city authorities, who considered him a political threat.

Female representation in parliaments and government cabinets after the Arab Spring has been either absent or meager, and women activists worry that Islamist parties will implement reactionary policies that discriminate on the basis of gender.

Some reactionary Vietnamese overseas attempted to attack Vietnamese Embassy in foreign countries by bomb and conspired to organize armed groups in order to infiltrate into Viet Nam to carry out their plans of terrorism and sabotage.

To avoid this outcome, it is vital to purge certain reactionary and numbing beliefs, including the idea that reducing poverty obviates the need to address inequality, or that development is possible without introducing modern and progressive tax systems.

So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.

So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.

In Africa, the abolition of the policy of apartheid, the reorganization of the Republic of South Africa on democratic lines and the defeat of reactionary racial concepts open up new prospects for cooperation and development for the entire continent.

When it learned on the morning of 21 October 1993 of the ignoble action aimed at overturning the institutions that had emerged from the free, democratic elections of June this year, the Government of Rwanda immediately and forcefully condemned this reactionary forcible seizure of power.

It would be a mistake to dismiss anxiety about immigration as mere bigotry or apprehension about the globalized economy as simply reactionary. National, religious, and cultural identities (for lack of a better word) are being transformed, though less by immigration than by the development of globalized capitalism.

This reactionary tendency deprived many of access to various scientific findings and knowledge and led to the exclusion of other sources of knowledge, namely God and knowledge based on revelation from the life of human beings in the West divine knowledge that was disseminated by such prophets as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad.