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  • But during the Khmer Rouge rule in the 1970s, fear descended on the village as people were accused of being counter-revolutionaries and began disappearing.

    Khmer Rouge Turned Cambodian Family Members Against One Another 2011

  • One of the novels she selected, she discovered, was about 18th century French counter-revolutionaries.

    Howard Kissel: Eva Zeisel: 1906-2011 Howard Kissel 2012

  • Though the vast majority of Egyptians want to be rid of this evil man, counter-revolutionaries with the clear assistance of the army have brought violence to the streets in his support.

    Letters: Nothing will save Hosni Mubarak from Egyptians' wrath 2011

  • But during the Khmer Rouge rule in the 1970s, fear descended on the village as people were accused of being counter-revolutionaries and began disappearing.

    Khmer Rouge Turned Cambodian Family Members Against One Another 2011

  • Trotsky rejected, for example, Lenin's wish to appoint him commissar of home affairs in 1917, pointing out, according to Deutscher, that counter-revolutionaries would "whip up anti-Semitic feeling and turn it against the Bolsheviks."

    A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011

  • Revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries have certainly used the telephone over the years.

    John Jackson: The Hype About Online Activism, or 'Clicktivism' John Jackson 2010

  • So is it possible that the rebellions of 2011 could also leave some disappointment behind in 2012 if and when the members of the old order start fighting back to protect the status quo just like the counter-revolutionaries in 1849?

    Leon T. Hadar: 2012: The Year of Counter-Revolution? Leon T. Hadar 2011

  • In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity."

    The Revolutionary Novelist Tess Lewis 2011

  • Revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries have certainly used the telephone over the years.

    John Jackson: The Hype About Online Activism, or 'Clicktivism' John Jackson 2010

  • Indeed, violent provocations seem to have come mostly from the other side -- the pro-Mubarak agitators, as in the infamous "Day of the Camels" assault by counter-revolutionaries mounted on horses and camels.

    Did anti-Mubarak protesters assault Lara Logan? David Ignatius 2011

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