Sentences with 'reactionary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reactionary and other words derived from it.
• « Historians have traditionally referred to the major changes that took place in the Catholic Church in response to the Protestant Reformation as the "Counter-Reformation", a movement that was essentially reactionary. »
• « Tsar Nicholas I was the ultimate reactionary, personally overseeing the police investigation of the Decembrist conspiracy and creating Europe's first secret police force, the Third Section. »
• « Sicilian landowners, even the most reactionary, were forced to see that the only hope for law and order lay in the protection of this radical dictator and his revolution. Their gradual and reluctant transfer of allegiance to the insurrection was a decisive event and helped make possible the next phase of Garibaldi's astonishing conquest. »
• « However, in the same year, the reactionary Sultan Abdulhamit II (r. 1876 - 1909) came to power and soon did all he could to roll back the reforms. »