There's a reactionary faction in the council that begins to foam at the mouth whenever someone even mentions the word 'Elene'.

But the airline did say, "We are extremely disappointed that a reactionary faction of the tobacco industry continues to put literally dozens of Saatchi & Saatchi professional careers in jeopardy."

After the partition, Poland initiated an extensive reform program, which included a democratic constitution that alarmed reactionary factions in Poland and in Russia.

Colonel Lidov said, "You will now itemize for me the ideologies of the progressive and reactionary factions in your leadership hierarchy."

Such was the subsequent dismay among reactionary factions at this sign of weakness that the Tokugawa shogunate was soon overthrown.

A reactionary political faction in Argentina would dearly love to topple the moderate regime now holding elected office, and seize total power for themselves.

His political awakening started with the first great crisis of the monarchy in 1786, after which he headed the reactionary faction at the court of Louis XVI.

Ultra-Royalists or simply Ultras were a reactionary faction which sat in the French parliament from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration.

In the Third Republic, the monarchists were the reactionary faction, later renamed conservative.

Economic recovery had been hampered by the separatist disputes in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, resistance to reform on the part of some corrupt and reactionary factions, and Asian financial crisis.