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- noun Plural form of
maximalist .
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Examples
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Some of the delegates in Asheville were known as the maximalists.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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FIS is also factionalised into 'maximalists' or 'Afghans', some of whom fought in Afghanistan, and 'oumistes', financed by the reactionary Saudi oil sheiks.
Mayibuye Editorial 1995
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The "maximalists" seem to have won the debate within the administration.
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"We should all be thankful the 'maximalists' have won the debate," said Lisa Curtis, a former CIA and congressional analyst now at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank
American Chronicle 2009
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Whenever I testified in front of the generally hostile Judiciary Committee, I know I could count on Rick Boucher and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to come to my rescue and ask tough questions of the copyright maximalists.
Gigi Sohn: Boucher Defeat a Loss for Tech Policy World Gigi Sohn 2010
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Also, only dead-end historical revisionist Israeli maximalists put “Palestinian” in scare quotes, so I doubt your claim not to have a dog in this fight.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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As galling as it is to realize that the BRR and its registered authors and publishers will derive income from millions of books they didn ` t write or publish, it is even more galling that copyright maximalists will almost certain dominate the BRR governing board.
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In general Establishment Clause maximalists have interpreted it as covering little more than its specific facts, while more minimalist interpreters have interpreted it as providing a broad range of exceptions to the Establishment Clause covering a variety of religion-related activities traditionally performed by governments in the United States, and even to novel activities regarded as similar in character to those traditional activities.
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Whenever I testified in front of the generally hostile Judiciary Committee, I know I could count on Rick Boucher and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to come to my rescue and ask tough questions of the copyright maximalists.
Gigi Sohn: Boucher Defeat a Loss for Tech Policy World Gigi Sohn 2010
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Whenever I testified in front of the generally hostile Judiciary Committee, I know I could count on Rick Boucher and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to come to my rescue and ask tough questions of the copyright maximalists.
Gigi Sohn: Boucher Defeat a Loss for Tech Policy World Gigi Sohn 2010
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