counterrevolution

Example Sentences

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Sherry Ning, a writer in Toronto, was only half-joking when she recently tweeted, “The next counterrevolution is the return of whole milk.”

From New York Times

Progressive forces winning a statewide contest in an August primary does not guarantee a national counterrevolution.

From Washington Post

But the court's counterrevolution during June's last week didn't end with the EPA decision that could, in the words of historian Heather Cox Richardson, "signal the end of the federal government as we know it."

From Salon

It wasn’t until graduate school, also at Michigan, that he shifted to French history, influenced by the sociologist Charles Tilly, author of “The Vendée,” a study of counterrevolution in France.

From New York Times

The death knell for minority rights in the postwar South wasn’t democracy or majority rule or political equality but a counterrevolution of property and hierarchy, led by the remnants of the planter elite.

From New York Times