| Fearing counter-revolution, the sans-culottes destroyed prisons because they believed they were secretly sheltering conspirators. |
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| The monarch plans to put himself at the head of the enemies of the revolution to attempt a counter-revolution. |
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| The revolutionary opportunity was lost, and counter-revolution gained the upper hand. |
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| At Blackpool yesterday, the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, promised a radical counter-revolution against this creeping centralisation. |
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| The woman who led the capitalist counter-revolution in Poland is to address an international business convention near Harrogate. |
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| But as events played out the revolution failed and the counter-revolution soon set in. |
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| With the declaration from Stalin that socialism was possible in one country, the counter-revolution began. |
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| The big event that shifted the way the media works was the Thatcher counter-revolution. |
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| In the triumph of Royalist counter-revolution Milton saw the dangers of political passivity, of ideological sloth. |
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| He breaks new ground, capturing the delicate amalgam of reason and reaction, elitism and populism, that was the counter-revolution. |
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| Marx also saw that to be successful the workers' revolution had to be able to defend itself against counter-revolution by capitalist and reactionary forces. |
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| In the dark days of the 1960s, however, it was a call to arms for a free-enterprise counter-revolution against state corporatism and sleepy managerialism. |
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| Even as courts have, over the past two generations, grown more dismissive of hunches, there has been a counter-revolution in the cognitive sciences. |
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| And Brown shows that both revolution and counter-revolution were Janus-headed, with heroism, devotion, and high ideals going hand in hand with violence and cruelty. |
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