isolationist

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Ex-army, isolationist, they are what you think of when you think of what the liberal elite is not.

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  1. One who believes that a new race or variety cannot become fixed or established through natural selection unless its representative individuals are locally or topographically separated or segregated from the remainder of the species. This way of accounting for progress in one or more directions may prove as inadequate as the one suggested by isolationists. Rep. Brit. Ass'n Advancement of Sci., 1901, p. 676.
  2. In recent United States politics, an advocate of the policy of non-interference or non-participation in international affairs.

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  • America had changed forever—gone for­ever was the isolationist, essentially rural nation recover­ing from the trauma of the Depression. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • What happens if the big conflicts in the world are not between East and West but still between France and Germany, if America remains semi-isolationist? —  StrangeHorizons,August2002
  • Further, Catholics cannot be isolationist, and good people cannot simply retreat from the common good. —  DREADNOUGHT : : dreadnoone : : dreadnothing : : faithful : : gay : : catholic : :
  • Ex-army, isolationist, they are what you think of when you think of what the liberal elite is not. —  GreenCine Daily
  • A major reason Obama's election was welcomed across the world was his pledge to make America less isolationist-minded, but if his first major economic act ignores the needs of the global economy and provokes a trade war with the European Union, how likely is it that China or Russia or India or South America will play by the rules? —  Irish Eagle
 

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