Sentence examples for being protectionist from inspiring English sources

Few European leaders admit to being protectionist; most pay lip service to free trade.

"This gives the Obama administration a way to differentiate itself from the George W. Bush administration without being protectionist".

Ms Schwab was unwilling to make that concession.India has had a history of being protectionist, and we have criticised it for being so.

Political and other vested interests were being protectionist, blind to the greater economic and societal good that could flow from the development of new technologies.

For nearly a decade, the department and big beef producers said in unison that the Europeans, who bar beef raised with hormones or antibiotics, were just being protectionist.

But I just cannot buy into the argument that our standing and protecting the rights of our exporters and workers is somehow igniting a trade war or being protectionist".

They deny that these concerns are protectionist.

Brazil and (especially) India are protectionist by comparison.

"They would clearly resist efforts to be protectionist.

The idea, the two economists argue, would not necessarily be protectionist.

China reckons that America's bail-out of some of its carmakers was protectionist.