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protectionist

[ US /pɹəˈtɛkʃənɪst/ ]
[ UK /pɹətˈɛkʃənˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. an advocate of protectionism

How To Use protectionist In A Sentence

  • Both Mexico and Canada are angry with the U.S. for the "buy American" provision in Obama's stimulus bill, which they label correctly as "protectionist. Cracks Emerging in NAFTA
  • Bringing down protectionist barriers is likely to take rather longer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some of the most energetic protectionist measures are erected against agricultural products in all countries.
  • As with other protectionist schemes, it is really about taxing Americans and imposing price floors to benefit a politically influential industry.
  • These harmful effects can also be exacerbated by the adoption of increased protectionist measures by trading blocs against non-bloc countries.
  • Such protectionist perspectives and narrow definitions of critical media literacy set themselves against the pleasures the media provide.
  • Moreover, these protectionist initiatives have surfaced at a time when the global trading system is already under severe strain.
  • Buchanan would end all foreign aid, build a Fortress America through protectionist trade barriers and return America to his beloved '5Os by keeping out Third World immigrants. Buchanan: Thunder On The Right
  • The PC police are chipping away at our freedoms from one side and the protectionists are chipping from the other. Is That Legal?: RedState: My Brain Hurts.
  • The two major parties at the first federal elections were free-traders and protectionists, with the latter securing a narrow victory, though not a parliamentary majority.
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