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  • adjective of or pertaining to adventurism.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to adventurism

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Examples

  • The Warsaw uprising, as Jan Ciechanowski has decisively demonstrated, was a political and ideological attempt (Stalin's word was "adventuristic") to liberate the capital and win control over the entire country.

    The Fate of Poland Rieber, Alfred J. 1986

  • McCain, meanwhile, does not recognize these issues as problems in need of urgent resolution, and has proposed an even more adventuristic approach to intelligence.

    Frank Naif: Abuse Likely to Continue Under McCain Intelligence Reforms 2008

  • In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic

    ANC Today 2007

  • In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic Revolution ...

    ANC Today 2007

  • Which means, there will be no convincing of neo-cons, because neo-cons have, by the definition of their ideology, Unconstitutional adventuristic ideals (as well as the fictional nonsense of the "unitary executive").

    No Impeachment? No Problem. Think Nixon and President Pelosi 2006

  • I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic.

    American Coastopia! 2004

  • What we got was the wildest, most adventuristic and most disastrous foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson – who won the 1916 election with the slogan “He kept us out of war” – then led America into World War I a month after his inauguration.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic Revolution.

    PEOPLE'S POWER IN ACTION PREFACE TO THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE ANC 2002

  • In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic Revolution.

    CONFERENCE UPDATE/5 2002

  • This only, I think, fortifies those of us who think Taiwan has a just cause and a just reason to be fearful of adventuristic and aggressive activity from the People's Republic of China.

    CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2001 2001

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