I. adjective
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religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal
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He approached the job with missionary zeal.
revolutionary ideals
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He still believed in the revolutionary ideals of equality and justice.
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■ NOUN
action
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The farmer and his wife want their area to take part in this revolutionary action .
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Such political behavior can manifest itself in strikes, violent demonstrations, insurrections, and revolutionary action .
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This episode helped spur the revolutionary action taken against the king at the Westminster Parliament which opened a week later.
activity
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It is also, rather vaguely, thought of as a revolutionary activity .
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When he was 17 years old, he was expelled from school for revolutionary activities and never returned to the class-room.
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It concludes that this change induced by the outside power resulted in the country people becoming involved in revolutionary activity .
change
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Britain has undergone three periods of revolutionary change .
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In part, the growth of peer pressure will result from revolutionary changes in pay practices.
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Some systems are characterized by rapid and sometimes revolutionary change .
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But this revolutionary change will not be painless.
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Stone's analysis of the legislation provides a valuable corrective to those who have argued that it represented a revolutionary change .
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It was an unconscious, evolutionary progression, with an occasional revolutionary change of which they became quite conscious.
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Women in this country have made revolutionary changes in their roles in the past 25 years.
forces
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There were some campesina women who wouldn't accept anything but worked in the fields as their form of helping the revolutionary forces .
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Retreat, therefore, was always an option for revolutionary forces .
government
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Radical socialists urged that the Soviet was in a position to establish a revolutionary government in defiance of the Duma Committee.
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One of the first decisions taken by the revolutionary government was to create multi-disciplinary mental-health teams operating in the community.
group
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The group , which began its uprising in February 1996, has links with other revolutionary groups.
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They form a clearly defined revolutionary group , and have been called the Pioneers.
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We supplied information to different revolutionary groups for many years about Devraux's work for the Surete.
idea
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Keith joined us with just the expertise we required, and some revolutionary ideas , in 1991.
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Unfortunately, the work containing his most revolutionary ideas has not been preserved.
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In the event, however, the crisis served mainly to demonstrate the dominance of older pacifist traditions over revolutionary ideas .
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Chapman's revolutionary ideas extended also to the running of the national team.
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He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time.
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Like many great and revolutionary ideas in science this one was more or less ignored.
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The Carrera 4 is bristling with revolutionary ideas .
ideology
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Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
leader
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Burton played the anguished but heroic young captain who would not betray the revolutionary leader despite the systematic slaughter of six hostages.
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A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader .
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The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed's claim to be a revolutionary leader .
literature
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If the balance is maintained, the result is a revolutionary literature in which aesthetics mobilises ideology and ideology motivates aesthetics.
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It is in this sense that Nizan's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader.
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Marxism, in short, constitutes the intellectual, moral and aesthetic guidelines of revolutionary literature .
marxism
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In surrealism the revolution of the psychic self the inner world, was symbiotically linked with revolutionary Marxism .
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Divorced from the program of revolutionary Marxism , cadres immersed in the mass movement eventually succumb to opportunism.
movement
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But they left largely unchallenged the Bolshevik view of October 1917 itself as the greatest achievement of the world revolutionary movement .
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Appeals for support of a new revolutionary movement , therefore, gained relatively few adherents.
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In addition the armed revolutionary movement was said to control or influence twenty percent of the country's villages.
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On all sides, opportunities for growth are opening up for the revolutionary movement .
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The second question concerns the types of groups most likely to comprise the largest support for violent rebellions or revolutionary movements .
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The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
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It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander's reign.
party
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Although they founded the major revolutionary parties of the twentieth century, they were soon outnumbered within them.
process
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For that reason, a women's organization linked to the revolutionary process is very important.
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In addition, any classification is time specific, because evolutionary and revolutionary processes can change the nature of a political system.
rhetoric
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Behind a veil of revolutionary rhetoric , the Council of People's Commissars suppressed the masses' striving for liberty.
upheaval
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Within the revolutionary upheaval envisaged, relations between town and countryside are disrupted.
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There will be no lack of revolutionary upheavals .
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Such a pattern of attitudes is what one might expect from people suddenly drawn into politics by a revolutionary upheaval .
writer
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The task of the revolutionary writer is therefore complex.
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The revolutionary writer , by contrast, is a risk-taker.
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The great revolutionary writer must retain the sophisticated literary qualities of Dostoievsky, whilst acceding to the clear-sighted political qualities of Lenin.
zeal
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Inside, I was gripped, as I always was, by the intense atmosphere of revolutionary zeal .
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Both brought a revolutionary zeal to their work, literally and figuratively.
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revolutionary technology for producing cheap, pollution-free energy
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Einstein's revolutionary theories made people look at the universe in a completely new way.
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I was very involved in revolutionary activity then.
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My father taught me several revolutionary songs.
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The new treatment for cancer is considered revolutionary .
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When revolutionary forces marched into Havana, Castro and Che Guevara took control of the army.
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Women have made revolutionary changes in their roles in the past 25 years.
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At all events, it is thanks to them that the revolutionary humanism of 1789 still lives on.
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Elsewhere in the county Quakerism emerged in the 1650s to be fairly firmly suppressed by a gentry worried about its revolutionary tendencies.
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Nevertheless, Picasso's bronze Head is in many ways a revolutionary work.
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Opposition to the party establishment was created in the form of revolutionary committees and communes.
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Several rival revolutionary armies were challenging the central government and each other.
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The Council's use of the term is therefore revolutionary .
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The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
II. noun
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Garcia Gutierrez wrote two plays with revolutionaries as their heroes.
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Having taken control of the capital city, the revolutionaries proceeded to form a new government.
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They think they're revolutionaries, but they're nothing but common criminals.
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He checked out a book that contained police pictures of revolutionaries.
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He had become a professional revolutionary .
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In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues, the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois, trade-unionist mentality.
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With each decade the revolutionaries became more and more concerned with efficiency.
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Women participate, not as feminists, but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation.
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Writers and filmmakers were no longer required to portray heroes as shining revolutionaries and villains as agents of the Saigon regime.