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The phrase "reactionary intervention" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to actions taken in response to a situation or event, especially when the response is considered to be extreme or counter-productive. For example, "The government's reactionary intervention in the labor dispute caused tensions to rise and the situation to become more volatile."
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My second point, however, is something that rubs me quite a bit more raw because of the general oversimplification of human behavior promoting a reactionary intervention as though there is one cause and one intervention that can fix something seen as undesirable in an individual's behavior or personal characteristics.
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If progressives fail to reclaim the narrative for government management and populism, these ideas may well be co-opted by other movements that also welcome state intervention, but coupled with a reactionary social and cultural program.
Boris Johnson's ravings about protests "erupting like boils" is a colourful variant of a shared reactionary impulse, evident in David Cameron's own interventions as well as in reports about new laws to clear political encampments.
The echoes are undeniable – a whole community held in suspicion by the reactionary right, ongoing tensions caused by British military intervention, a nation gripped by the invisible, unknowable threat of "extreme terrorism".
Galdós was a liberal crusader whose criticism of the Roman Catholic Church's interventions in civic matters, of caciquism (caciquismo, or political bossism), and of reactionary power-grabs made him many enemies.
"Too reactionary".
"Reactionary" is similar.
Opposing housebuilding looks reactionary.
It's a reactionary business".
On Feb. 3, 2004, the Vietnam Communist Party's (VCP's) Central Committee declared, "International reactionary forces are likely to intensify their schemes of using issues related to 'democracy,'humanan rights,' ethnicity, and religion while aiding and abetting reactionaries and extremists at home to cause sociopolitical instability as a pretext for intervention".
It is regressive and reactionary".
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