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counterestablishment

Definitions

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  • noun An establishment that opposes another establishment.

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ establishment

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Examples

  • The media counterestablishment of the right gives them that.

    Tea Party Jacobins: The State Of American Politics Today 2010

  • This kind of anarchic, counterestablishment spirit was something that resided in National Review and attracted a lot of talented young writers who wouldn't necessarily go on to become conservatives.

    Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus 2001

  • Even though it disappeared as a separate religion, its concepts of conflict between good and evil shaped later thought, especially in Europe and the Middle East, and occasionally provided the foundations for counterestablishment religions.

    d. Continued Spread of Religions 2001

  • Given an entrenched opposition to Erbakan throughout the country's leading institutions, it seems likely that he will only effect a transformation of the country by staying in power for many years and managing slowly to create a counterestablishment that can take over from the existing establishment.

    Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009

  • Although Netanyahu has important advantages over Erbakan (a much larger base of electoral support, a far less radical program to implement), he also does not seem likely to achieve his goals unless he manages to create a counterestablishment.

    Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009

  • Driven by a need to engage elite opinion, conservatives tried to build an intellectual counterestablishment with think tanks and magazines.

    Free Democracy 2008

  • Driven by a need to engage elite opinion, conservatives tried to build an intellectual counterestablishment with think tanks and magazines.

    Fors Clavigera James K.A. Smith 2008

  • Ya wouldn’t normally a-thunkit, but the New York media establishment (or counterestablishment) whatever, the New York media hegemony (how I love that word), has today played a large part in keeping my most dearest, secretest, sweetest dreams alive, contrary to their traditionally dream-shattering ways.

    The New York Media Mafia: keeping my dreams alive « raincoaster 2007

  • Ya wouldn’t normally a-thunkit, but the New York media establishment (or counterestablishment) whatever, the New York media hegemony (how I love that word), has today played a large part in keeping my most dearest, secretest, sweetest dreams alive, contrary to their traditionally dream-shattering ways.

    2007 May 01 « raincoaster 2007

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