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  • E: One non-Zionist state – stable non-Jewish majority (accomplishable, as in South Africa, by giving the vote to people who currently do not have it and reforming race-based immigration laws) – Maximalist anti-Zionist

    Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements 2009

  • Maximalist position —Mr. Obama's term for the Republican position that deficit reduction should come entirely from spending cuts, with no tax increases, implying the GOP is being unreasonable.

    Debate Decoder: What the Euphemisms in the Debt Standoff Really Mean Nell Henderson 2011

  • The name “Bolshevik” can not be translated by “Maximalist.

    Notes and Explanations 1922

  • They did not admit even one Maximalist into the membership of the Executive Committee at Petrograd, even when our party represented at least one-third of all the Soviet members.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • Germany agrees to respect as permanent and inalienable the independency of all territories which were part of the former Russian Empire, to accept the abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk and other treaties entered into with the Maximalist Government of Russia, to recognize the full force of all treaties entered into by the allied and associated powers with States which were a part of the former Russian Empire, and to recognize the frontiers as determined thereon.

    World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. 1902

  • "We plan to offer an immediate armistice of three months, during which elected representatives from all nations and not the diplomats are to settle the questions of peace," said Nikolai Lenine, the Maximalist leader, in a speech before the Workmen's and Soldiers 'Congress today.

    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901

  • The Maximalist achieving its primed kaleidoscopic magnum opus status.

    The Line Of Best Fit Simon Tyers 2010

  • Maximalist deferentialism, originally associated with The most recent entrant in the academic conversation is The Constitution in 2020, edited by Yale professors Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel, in which academic denizens of the American Constitution Society offer their takes on how best to realize the promise of a

    The Yale Law Journal Sanford Levinson 2010

  • Maximalist deferentialism, originally associated with The most recent entrant in the academic conversation is The Constitution in 2020, edited by Yale professors Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel, in which academic denizens of the American Constitution Society offer their takes on how best to realize the promise of a

    The Yale Law Journal Sanford Levinson 2010

  • The Maximalist achieving its primed kaleidoscopic magnum opus status.

    The Line Of Best Fit Simon Tyers 2010

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