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Yet much of the book is a foot-dragging rearguardaction which subtlely attempts to undermine the established hypothesis.
Rather, the past two centuries have been a perpetual rearguardaction against the modernising forces at the gates of both palace and temple.
Their criticisms amount to a kind of cultural protectionism, the rearguardaction of outmoded gatekeepers protesting the rise of new mediators.
In fact, the triumph of the dean and chapter was only achieved through a highly effective rearguardaction to defeat a major threat to its authority.
We want to shape the future, and shaping the future does not mean fighting a rearguardaction or useless protectionism, but accompanying change.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The second rearguardaction which has to be fought is on the question of affinity.
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