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  • noun Plural form of localist.

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Examples

  • The opposition consisted of "localists," later called "states-righters," who preferred a decentralized government.

    Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" 2007

  • By your logic these people were "localists": they identified with the locality thus they had an ideology of "localism".

    Everybody's A Nationalist 2007

  • The opposition consisted of "localists," later called "states-righters," who preferred a decentralized government.

    Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" 2007

  • You know there are two groups, although this division has always existed, it remained hidden: those for the al-Qaida notion of what you call global jihadists, and those who normally are the localists - the local fighters who are close to the people, he said.

    Has Somalia's Famine Weakened al-Shabab? 2011

  • You know there are two groups, although this division has always existed, it remained hidden: those for the al-Qaida notion of what you call global jihadists, and those who normally are the localists - the local fighters who are close to the people, he said.

    Has Somalia's Famine Weakened al-Shabab? 2011

  • Then a reaction set in, as taxpayers and localists objected to funding a national road network.

    The Lessons of the Turnpike Daniel Hannan 2012

  • Clearly, not all the people there were die-hard localists.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Clearly, not all the people there were die-hard localists.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Clearly, not all the people there were die-hard localists.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The thought behind my quip about the Taoists was that while on the one hand they were localists, indeed ...

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – April – 26 2009

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