Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles or spirit of the anti-imperialists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Opposition to imperialism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any belief or practice which opposes
imperialism .
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Examples
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And as is true of many militants, there was no tyrant, however murderous, that he wouldn't praise in the name of anti-imperialism.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable – review 2011
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And the ideals of feminism, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and socialism have represented some of the most humane and noble human impulses of the modern era.
Barbara Ransby: 'Restoring Sanity' Means Reclaiming the Mantle of a Principled Progressive Struggle With a Diverse Base of People Barbara Ransby 2010
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Again, they may not have complete sympathy in the sense of wanting to go to Afghanistan and shoot Americans, but terrorists nowadays tend to be anti-West, anti-Israel, anti-imperialism, pro-Palestinian, anti-Bush, etc. and this leads leftists to sympathize with them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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Again, they may not have complete sympathy in the sense of wanting to go to Afghanistan and shoot Americans, but terrorists nowadays tend to be anti-West, anti-Israel, anti-imperialism, pro-Palestinian, anti-Bush, etc. and this leads leftists to sympathize with them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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(Terrorist suspects are anti-imperialism, anti-US, etc.) – Is this case something that would be of great political benefit to some political group, even for reasons not related to the specific person the lawyer is defending?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Punishing a lawyer for his clients (continued) 2010
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This has transformed the concept of imperialism into a myth, hence anti-imperialism almost into a political religion.
Amir Madani: The Continuing Protests in Arab Countries -- The Case of Syria Amir Madani 2011
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Surely the greatest nightmare for U.S. diplomats is that Venezuela, with its populist anti-imperialism, might steer the course of South American integration.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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And the ideals of feminism, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and socialism have represented some of the most humane and noble human impulses of the modern era.
Barbara Ransby: 'Restoring Sanity' Means Reclaiming the Mantle of a Principled Progressive Struggle With a Diverse Base of People Barbara Ransby 2010
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Surely the greatest nightmare for U.S. diplomats is that Venezuela, with its populist anti-imperialism, might steer the course of South American integration.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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And the ideals of feminism, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and socialism have represented some of the most humane and noble human impulses of the modern era.
Barbara Ransby: 'Restoring Sanity' Means Reclaiming the Mantle of a Principled Progressive Struggle With a Diverse Base of People Barbara Ransby 2010
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