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- adverb In an
imperialistic manner.
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Examples
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This was intentional to signal to the rest of the Middle East that we had no interest in imperialistically taking them over.
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And all those other Johny Reb states we keep imperialistically occupying!
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Lucas was reviving the serials of his youth, and those pieces at least had the excuse that the entire commercial entertainment world in America was matter-of-factly and imperialistically racist, but in the 1970s, when Spielberg and Lucas were coming up with this crap, it was already way out-of-date and now it's aging really terribly.
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When we try to demand that the text address us in our terms rather than having addressed the original readers in theirs, we are selfishly and recklessly commandeering the text and seeking to use it imperialistically for our own ends p.21.
Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One, Part One James F. McGrath 2009
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When we try to demand that the text address us in our terms rather than having addressed the original readers in theirs, we are selfishly and recklessly commandeering the text and seeking to use it imperialistically for our own ends p.21.
Archive 2009-08-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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He writes about how we have distorted the idea of "freedom" to mean freedom to consume, to use up resources, to imperialistically take more, to consume more.
Printing: What Does a Tough Progressive Media Site Look Like? 2008
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The main goal of the neoconservatives who have destroyed the soul of the Republican Party is to consolidate national wealth to the nation†™ s top 2% wealthiest at the expense of the middle and lower classes while imperialistically occupying other nations.
Think Progress » Neocons Resurrect Plans For Regional War In The Middle East 2006
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A war of plunder waged by the CIA on much of the world has been called the Third World War because many of its victims are chauvinistically, imperialistically, termed "third world".
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He writes about how we have distorted the idea of "freedom" to mean freedom to consume, to use up resources, to imperialistically take more, to consume more.
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The pardon stopped none of this bitterly fought division and may even have implicitly encouraged the crucially important warmongering and imperialistically interventionist segment of it by making clear that Presidents and their top men would never pay any criminal penalty for any of it.
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