Sentence examples for reflexive opponent from inspiring English sources

"I'm not a reflexive opponent of nuclear.

He made it clear that he was not a reflexive opponent of all wars.

Reflexive opponents of "government," they can exhibit little sense of what the government actually does.

He was able to anticipate and soothe the reflexive emotions of his opponents while explaining, in undogmatic yet value-laden terms, why the times demand a decisive departure from an essentially amoral exaltation of individual success.

According to Timothy L Thomas, an analyst at the US army's Foreign Military Studies Office, and an expert in recent Russian military history and theory, reflexive control involves "conveying to an opponent specially prepared information to incline him voluntarily to make the predetermined decision desired by the initiator of the action".

Sucking it down is a reflex, our first reflexive gratification.

Brown's Republican opponents, increasingly cartoonish in their reflexive oppositionism, amusingly released their video attacks on his State of the State a day before he delivered it, when the speech was certainly not finished.

Principled opponents of Sarah Palin should take a stand against the reflexive, cowardly pot-shots lobbed at her by Huffington Post bloggers, MSNBC cable pundits and New York Times editors - all because her interview at a Wassilla poultry farm (where holiday turkeys are bred and slaughtered) included some local colour.

Reflexive, even?

They're not reflexive.

Use the reflexive pronoun.