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countermovement

Definitions

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  • noun A movement in opposition, or retaliation to another

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ movement

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Examples

  • The figure most heavily targeted in countermovement tirades against the EAM project, and who seemed to embody its worst excesses, was the adartissa.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • (DSE Bulletin, 7 July 1949) 52This special role of women fuelled the abuse they received in countermovement propaganda.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • In her oil paintings only one of which is included here, Delaunay worked almost exclusively with flat primary colors and simple geometric shapes, contrasting movement with countermovement.

    Overdue but Underdone Lance Esplund 2011

  • In a small countermovement to the main drive of assimilation, some assimilated Jews regarded the Eastern Jew—and the East in general—as more soulful and genuine than the Western Jew and the West.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • At different times in history, the injustice of society has grown to a point where a countermovement was born in order to fight it: the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader, anhe students rights movement, where student Mario Savio as a particular expressive student, said:

    Erik Rasmussen: Notice of Drafting: The World Wants You! Erik Rasmussen 2011

  • That in turn sparked a countermovement on Facebook to support press freedom by buying more papers—surely a welcome turn of events in this era of declining circulations.

    Hong Kong Polices Press Freedom 2011

  • In a small countermovement to the main drive of assimilation, some assimilated Jews regarded the Eastern Jew—and the East in general—as more soulful and genuine than the Western Jew and the West.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • As one movement vanishes, a group like the tea party will emerge only to be trumped by a new countermovement.

    The New Democrats Lost the Wave 2011

  • Indeed, the latter was marked by one of the highest ratios of female to male combatants in the history of the Second World War, a curious phenomenon in itself, and one which provided a crucial subtext to the tirades hurled at the partisan army by an outraged 'national-minded' countermovement on the ascendancy.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • The chapter will juxtapose partisan constructions of the adartissa on one hand, and countermovement constructions on the other.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

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