counter-revolutionary


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counter-revolutionary

(ˌkaʊntəˌrɛvəˈluːʃənərɪ; -nrɪ)
n, pl -aries
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person opposed to revolution
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who opposes a specific revolution or revolutionary government
adj
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) characterized by opposition to a revolution or revolutions in general
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counter-revolutionary

[ˈkaʊntərevəˈluːʃənrɪ]
B. Ncontrarrevolucionario/a m/f
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counter-revolutionary

[ˌkaʊntəˌrɛvəˈluːʃənrɪ] n & adjcontrorivoluzionario/a
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Earlier, Piranshahr Governor Ali Torabi said the IRGC members were killed in clashes with "terror groups and counter-revolutionary elements".
BAGHDAD (INA) - Two Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes with an Iranian counter-revolutionary group during a security operation in the northwest of the country, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
Al-Atta said that the Transitional Military Council was keen to confront any counter-revolutionary action in order to enable it to achieve its objectives along with the establishment of a commission and law for the elections as well as the drafting of a permanent constitution leading to the reform of the state and fighting corruption.
It was "abundantly clear that there are counter-revolutionary forces who are naturally displeased with any progress in negotiations," Madani said.
GESTAPO TACTICS Counter-revolutionary activity, as seen with the arrest, teargassing and clobbering of anti-graft campaigners, can only viewed as direct and deliberate sabotage of President Kenyatta's campaign.
Counter-revolutionary forces are still far from being defeated.
Javid was arrested in 1937 on trumped-up charges of being a "founding member of a counter-revolutionary group that was plotting an overthrow of the Soviet power".
The NPA had owned up to Panisan's killing, saying he was meted the death penalty for his counter-revolutionary activities.
The soldiers were angry that "counter-revolutionary infiltrators" were now effectively influencing the party.
"We will target counter-revolutionary forces, outlaws and terrorists who are being trained and are planning and plotting to destabilise our border regions anywhere in the world," he said.
(http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/30/asia/north-korea-executes-education-official/) The executed included North Korea's top education official, Kim Yong Jin, who was killed by a firing squad in August after he was branded "anti-party and a counter-revolutionary member" by the country's State Security Department.
Shahab Esfandiary, a professor of film and theater at the University of Arts in Tehran, said in comments published on the festival website, "Screening counter-revolutionary, Islamophobic and Iranophobic films in the Resistance Film Festival helps expand knowledge and analysis and clarifies the portrayal of Iran in foreign countries."