Sentence examples for protectionist position from inspiring English sources

So the free-trade president has just adopted a blatantly protectionist position.

This position stood in stark contrast to the Republican protectionist position, which called for the tariff to be increased, thereby driving up the cost of imported goods and pushing consumers toward domestically produced ones.

Other issues included free trade (he favored a non-Clintonian protectionist position), amnesty (for Confederate veterans and officials — he was for it) and race (he favored guaranteed suffrage for freed slaves).

I fear it is Monbiot who inadvertently supports the reactionary, protectionist positions of vested interests.

Many Democrats in the new Congressional intake have adopted protectionist positions in response to voter concerns about "unfair" foreign competition.

If he had abandoned his position when the New Democrats were in vogue, or when Al Gore was crushing Ross Perot in debate, the protectionist side of the arguments would have collapsed.

"For a long time they had a protectionist attitude.

Tony Benn's politics were always within the traditions of the party's left-right divisions, a development of a trade union-socialist position, protectionist, anti-American and anti-nuclear, that stood in opposition to a more outward-looking, modernising centrism.

And just as in big companies, what will assure failure of such a turnaround are hints of the recent introspective, isolationist, protectionist, and self-flagellatory positioning our American brand has been promoting.

By 1881, Blaine had completely abandoned his protectionist leanings and now used his position as Secretary of State to promote freer trade, especially within the western hemisphere.

Against Le Pen's nationalist, protectionist platform, he staked out a position in the political centre, and spoke powerfully and eloquently on the merits and value of a pluralist society and an integrated Europe.