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- adjective Of or pertaining to Woodrow Wilson or his policies
- adjective Of or pertaining to Harold Wilson or his policies
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nor was he even a "Wilsonian" - Cooper argues that like Karl Marx, he would hardly recognize the self-aggrandizing ideals that now bear his name.
NYT > Home Page By BEVERLY GAGE 2010
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Nor was he even a "Wilsonian" - Cooper argues that like Karl Marx, he would hardly recognize the self-aggrandizing ideals that now bear his name.
NYT > Home Page By BEVERLY GAGE 2009
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Nor was he even a "Wilsonian" - Cooper argues that like Karl Marx, he would hardly recognize the self-aggrandizing ideals that now bear his name.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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All of this comes down to us as what's called Wilsonian idealism.
Democracy Now! 2009
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But "Wilsonian" attitudes, self-righteous and messianic, do run throughout our history and do sometimes spill over into our foreign policy.
Andrew Levine: When the Leaders Speak of Human Rights Andrew Levine 2010
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But "Wilsonian" attitudes, self-righteous and messianic, do run throughout our history and do sometimes spill over into our foreign policy.
Andrew Levine: When the Leaders Speak of Human Rights Andrew Levine 2010
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Those who hailed as "Wilsonian" George Bush's delusional goal of building a liberal Western-style democracy in Iraq should be sobered by the latest report from the United Nations.
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Those who hailed as "Wilsonian" George Bush's delusional goal of building a liberal Western-style democracy in Iraq should be sobered by the latest report from the United Nations.
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The term "Wilsonian," in foreign policy lingo, refers to the view that democracy and human rights can and should be advanced abroad at gunpoint …
Dedefensa Philippe Grasset 2010
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The term "Wilsonian," in foreign policy lingo, refers to the view that democracy and human rights can and should be advanced abroad at gunpoint …
Dedefensa Philippe Grasset 2010
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