| But his approach to changing the status quo is gradualist rather than revolutionary. |
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| He was a gradualist, and that was because he was historically pessimistic, but not despairing. |
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| I'm a gradualist Laborite who believes in taking as many people as you can with you on controversial issues. |
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| Though famously sceptical of any single model of the economy, he has led the gradualist argument. |
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| Gore talks about more issues and in general is more of a gradualist. |
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| The resulting Charter was a mixed bag that tended to have played out the position of the gradualist approach. |
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| For some time, he seems to have been growing dissatisfied with the gradualist, uniformitarian patina which had grown to encrust evolutionary theory. |
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| He can't be a gradualist because he has only got four years. |
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| On the other hand, practices emerging from revolutionary syndicalism combine gradualist practices with practices of mass insurrection. |
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| Postmillennialism, on the other hand, tends to be progressive and gradualist, suggesting that things are getting better all the time. |
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| Beneath his modernising glitz and occasional new-age gobbledygook, he is an old-fashioned, pragmatic gradualist. |
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| In a philosophical perspective, the basis of existing gradualist positions can be defined as positivistic, materialistic and empiristic. |
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| Traditionally, we have taken a curious pride in our gradualist approach to politics. |
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| In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of evolution as opposed to special creation. |
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| The gradualist approach adopted entailed substantial further liberalisation of trade and prices and the creation of the main institutional and legal foundations of a market economy. |
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| They tend to be in the moderate left grouping, though much of the 79 Group was gradualist in approach. |
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| The picture we get of a pragmatic gradualist rather than a fierce logic chopper makes him a more human and understandable character. |
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| Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. |
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| Neil is on the left of the SNP, and is known as a fundamentalist, critical of the gradualist wing. |
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| Reformism is generally associated with social democracy and gradualist democratic socialism. |
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| It was in keeping with the gradualist and meliorist character of the American philosophy that progress would take time. |
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| The big question at the moment is whether this is the end of the Bank of England's gradualist approach on rates. |
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| Ynys Mon MP Albert Owen supported a gradualist approach and a referendum before full law-making powers. |
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| The first variant has officially its goal by establishing democratic socialism through reformist and gradualist methods. |
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| The gradualist approach they imply is a departure from the blitzkrieg he promised when he wrested the premiership from his Democratic Party colleague, Enrico Letta, in February. |
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| Consequently, although I broadly agree, I feel that more prudent and gradualist guidelines needed to be defined and this is why I was inclining towards abstaining from the final vote. |
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| Considering different approaches in moral philosophy one may notice a certain affinity of deontological approaches to the nongradualist and of utilitarian approaches to the gradualist position. |
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| Even if our goal at the outset is more gradualist and reformist, does not pursuit of justice imply at least a reduction of privilege, if not its outright eradication? |
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| Unfortunately, this argument implies a petitio principii, since the licence to destroy human embryos may only be given if human embryos are not subjects of human rights, i.e. if the gradualist position is valid. |
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| Labour's pledged full integration is a radical-sounding, though in reality still gradualist, approach along exactly the lines of the Better Care Fund. |
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| What made matters worse was that the Mulroney government's approach to deficit reduction was too gradualist, which left its fiscal position and strategy vulnerable to several risks, including the risk of recession. |
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| At the same time, experience in several countries suggests that, where these sectors are weak, gradualist strategies to increase their capacities would be prudent. |
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| Supporters of the gradualist position object that the continuity of a process does not implicate the identity of the starting point with the result of the process. |
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| Human Dignity: One of the strongest arguments for the non gradualist position is the intrinsic logic of the concept of human dignity, which is for example stipulated in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. |
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| It also underlined that the liberalization of capital flows was part of a gradualist approach enabling adjustments to match the specific situation of each country. |
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| The deepening of EU economic and political integration and the parallel pursuit of a gradualist enlargement policy has up to now formed the cornerstone of European integration and made Europe a world power. |
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| In particular, Rwanda's post-conflict governance strategy is significant for its inclusiveness, underpinned equally strongly by a gradualist approach. |
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| The contributors include several of the most eminent advocates of the gradualist approach, and the book offers no dissenters in either direction. |
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| China has generally administered the economy with a gradualist approach that is proving decreasingly effective. |
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| Given the levels of income in many parts of the country, the gradualist approach of the government to ending the subsidies may make political sense. |
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| Within two years of its foundation in 1884, the gradualist Fabian Society officially committed itself to a policy of permeation of the Liberal Party. |
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| Contrasting with this approach of conversion as peripety was what Goddard conceives as a medieval, gradualist approach to conversion favored by the Franciscans. |
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| The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation which was established with the purpose of advancing the principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist means. |
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