How to Use counterrevolution in a Sentence

counterrevolution

noun

• The leader vowed to stop any attempt at counterrevolution.
• Soldiers loyal to the President led the counterrevolution.
• If there is ever a counterrevolution, one of the regime’s main tools will be social media.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• The fact that its democracy survived even as the rest fell to civil war or counterrevolution gave inspiration to people across the region and many in the West.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Welcome to life in the dreary trenches of a counterrevolution.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• Maybe, at least in this one area, the Trump administration could mount a genuine counterrevolution in the name of liberty and common sense.
  — Philip Wallach, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• For in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring protests to end autocratic rule and foster democracy has come an anti-democratic counterrevolution that rages to this day.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2020
• Count these as two more successes for the swell of authoritarianism buffeting the world, and the counterrevolution against the Arab Spring.
  — Sean Yom, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• Tunisia was the first blossom of the 2011 Arab Spring — and the only bloom to have not sadly withered on the vine as pro-democracy uprisings gave way to civil wars and brutal autocratic counterrevolutions around the region.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Thomas’s fellow conservatives might not be willing to carry out his counterrevolution in full, of course.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• The United States has continued to foment counterrevolution on the island, Rodriguez said.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• At the turn of the 20th century, the Democratic Party’s counterrevolution against Reconstruction-era reforms had reached its apex.
  — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2017
• In two countries—Egypt and Bahrain—the state apparatus, with external support, forced a counterrevolution.
  — Paul Salem, Time, 6 Jan. 2021
• In March, one of Claremont’s senior fellows published an essay proclaiming the need for a counterrevolution against the American majority who didn’t vote for Trump.
  — Laura Field, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
• Its fledgling democracy persevered even as a ruthless counterrevolution took hold in Egypt, civil war hollowed out Syria, and Libya and Yemen both collapsed into a morass of warlordism.
  — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
• This is music written in one of the most exciting periods of revolution and counterrevolution in the history of Europe.
  — John Eliot Gardiner, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Mohamed joined earlier this year and found an influx of Egyptian users around the 10-year anniversary of the Arab Spring, which in Egypt ultimately led to a military counterrevolution and the installation of a dictatorship.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
• Alongside libertarians and anti-communists, social conservatives were the third leg of the famous three-legged electoral stool that formed the basis of the conservative counterrevolution of the 1980s.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 15 June 2021
• The revolutionary dimension of their counterrevolution would be provided by a kind of fascism.
  — Jesús Palacios, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
• This mass emigration included many of the country’s wealthiest residents, people with the means and motivation to seek a counterrevolution.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
• And above all that lies what seems the ultimate explanation for the disappointments of Reconstruction: an unbearably bloody white Southern counterrevolution.
  — Gregory Downs, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• May, the conservative daughter of a country vicar, will probably be best remembered for advancing, inadvertently, a counterrevolution of the left.
  — Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• Nothing slows progress like a schematic counterrevolution.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• But the supposed backstage liberal counterrevolution that critics fear has yielded modest results.
  — Peter Baker, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2017
• In Egypt, Sudanese protesters have a clear example of what happens when a pro-democratic revolution eventually gets swept away by a vicious counterrevolution led by the military establishment.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• In De Tocqueville’s scheme, the monarchy undergirded the way in which Britain, after its brief seventeenth-century republic and subsequent royalist counterrevolution, regressed to an uneasy compromise between the aristocratic and the democratic.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• Trump’s love affair with capital punishment runs deep, and Sessions’s tenure at the Justice Department is essentially a one-man counterrevolution against the bipartisan consensus on criminal-justice reform.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
• In the months after October 1917, Petrograd under the new Soviet Republic is increasingly threatened by not just famine, chaos and disease but also counterrevolution, factional betrayal and foreign intervention.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• As Pennsylvania’s James Wilson claimed amid the ratification debate, this was no antidemocratic counterrevolution.
  — Sam Negus, National Review, 10 Oct. 2021
• Across a continent reeling from revolutions and counterrevolutions, characters like Rambo, Conan, and Commando particularly resonated with viewers inspired by their exaggerated strength and daring confrontation with the powers that be.
  — Anakwa Dwamena, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024