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neoconservative

n. (context US English) A supporter of neoconservatism.

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neoconservative

n. a conservative who subscribes to neoconservativism [syn: neocon]

Usage examples of "neoconservative".

In the neoconservative program, the Soviet Union was to be driven to destruction by a mixture of military and economic pressure, the ruthless repression of communist-backed rebellions against U.

Rarely, however, has it been used so systematically, or with such contempt for even the appearance of consistency or intellectual honor, as by American nationalists, especially from the neoconservative camp.

Several of the signatories to this document had joined with neoconservative and other right-wing Republican commentators in supporting the Iraq War.

Cold War also produced the neoconservative academic and bureaucratic grouping, whose members between 2001 and 2003 critically influenced the administration of George W.

Republican politicians and neoconservative hawks were hurling the same charges of harboring and abetting terrorists against Saudi Arabia and other U.

Republican and neoconservative opposition, but to some extent among Democrats as well.

Defense Policy Board in March 2004 provided a symbolic marker for this neoconservative decline.

Although Gaffney is a neoconservative radical, the same dynamic seems to be at work with some self-described liberals like Paul Berman, to judge by the complete lack of any balance in the attention they pay to Israeli and Arab policies.

George Herbert Walker Bush was disturbed that his son was allowing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a cadre of neoconservative ideologues to exert broad influence over foreign policy, particularly concerning Iraq, and that he seemed to be tuning out the advice of moderates, including Secretary of State Colin Powell.

An effective network of officials with long-standing ties to Cheney, some neoconservative, others simply conservative, scattered throughout key jobs in the administration, provided crucial support to Rumsfeld.

A Maronite Christian, Hage had lived for years in the United States before returning to Beirut, and had developed important contacts in Washington, including Richard Perle, the influential neoconservative and outside advisor to the Pentagon.

By the end of 2005, the centerpiece of the neoconservative agendaIraqhad turned into the burial ground of their political fortunes.

The neoconservative rise to power proved to be the most surprising development of the Bush administration, and one that confounded and distressed moderates within the Republican establishment.

Wolfowitz and fellow neoconservative Doug Feith, who had served as undersecretary for policy, had both left the Pentagon.

John Bolton, a neoconservative at the State Department, was moved out to the United Nations.