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  • noun Plural form of maximalist.

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Examples

  • Some of the delegates in Asheville were known as the maximalists.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • 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

  • The "maximalists" seem to have won the debate within the administration.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    ‘Dead Souls’ of Google settlement 2009

  • 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.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Judge Strikes Down Statute Providing for National Day of Prayer 2010

  • 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

  • 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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