Sentence examples for reflexive opposition from inspiring English sources

Chalmers acknowledged that would require cultural change and a step back from "reflexive opposition to things".

Their reflexive opposition also reflects their refusal to cede any legitimate authority to the president.

The opposition to genetically modified organisms is just a blanket, reflexive opposition to the idea of changing nature.

Today there are circles that regard reflexive opposition to the F.B.I. as indispensable proof of progressive political bona fides.

Whatever actual resolve Republicans may have had to work across party lines seemed to dissolve overnight, and they reverted to the more familiar stance of reflexive opposition.

He suggested that Moscow may drop its reflexive opposition to former Soviet republics, like the Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, ever joining NATO.

The reflexive Russian opposition to international sanctions against authoritarian regimes facing popular uprisings would make some sense if Russia itself feared becoming the target of such sanctions; but that seems a remote prospect, and should it come to pass, Security Council resolutions would be the last thing Moscow has to worry about.

WASHINGTON -- Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Kent Conrad (D-N.D). said on Sunday that he urged President Obama not to publicly support a much-touted bipartisan debt-reduction plan out of fear that it would produce reflexive Republican opposition.

The temptation will be enormous among Trump critics to be rejectionist — to adopt the approach that the Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell, took after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008: reflexive, unyielding opposition in the hope of making Trump a one-term president.

We hope sound arguments will overcome the opposition from union leaders who have already decided that reform won't work — and seem to be threatening, by their reflexive resistance, to make sure it doesn't.

But the president also claimed that the clock was ticking, and this was no time for "reflexive" or ideological opposition.