But no such union was possible, and Draper, with that honest opportunism which best expressed his mind and capacity, assured Bagot that action in the very teeth of his instructions was the only possible course.
Two days later, an even more important modification than was contained in this exhortation to charity and opportunism was proposed.
And yet, it would be the greatest stupidity and the most absurd opportunism to suppose that the transition from capitalism to Socialism is possible without compulsion and dictatorship.
Their union with the Bolsheviki was from the first a compromise, based upon the political opportunism of both sides.
No man in the whole history of international Socialism ever more thoroughly despised this species of political opportunism than George Plechanov.
But this opportunism did not suit his opponents in Henry's Council.
Is not this the opportunism of both a Browning and a Gladstone?
This terrified opportunism is also the origin of the Socialist and other schemes.
It is this dazed and floundering opportunism that gets in the way of everything.
Opportunism is the base lagging behind with popular coldness, as moderatism in religion is.
That there may be no opportunism every citizen must be alive to the morality of politics.
A burlesque correspondence between a British Hero and the British Government pours satire on the cheap sympathy and lax opportunism of the Government, who are only concerned with saving their skin and their faces.
Sidenote: Disestablishment] Doctrinal opportunism is satirized in Du Maurier's picture of the vicar of a seaside town who was "High Church during the season, and Low all the rest of the year.
If the most advanced workers were aware that force was the mother of law, their political thought still remained saturated with the spirit of opportunism and self-adaptation to bourgeois legality.
Nothing has lost so many opportunities as the opportunism of Lord Rosebery.
In her politics she has broken up exactly as England has broken up, into a bewildering opportunismand insincerity.
And having discovered that opportunism does fail, I have been induced to look at it more largely, and in consequence to see that it must fail.
The framing of our policies should not be left to emotional caprice, or the opportunism of any group of men, but should be the result of sympathetic and deep study by the wisest men we have, irrespective of their politics.
We must resist the base opportunismwhich would abandon our strong position of devotion to these fundamental principles of good government for the sake of gaining temporary strength from some passing passion of the hour.
Indeed, it is hardly too much to affirm that empiricism and opportunism were among the principal characteristics of his policy in Paris, and that the outcome was what it must be.
Opportunism is an essential element of statecraft, which is the art of the possible.
Instead of practising a magnificent opportunism and so adapting itself to changing conditions, it stood for formalism and permanence.
The net result is that feminine morality is a morality of opportunism and imminent expediency, and that the normal woman has no respect for, and scarcely any conception of abstract truth.
Or did he come as near as a man with many human weaknesses could come to the wise and nobly calculated opportunism which is not merely the most beneficent statesmanship, but demands a heroic self-mastery?
Was there in his statesmanship, even in later days when he had great work to do, an element of that opportunism which, if not actually base, is at least cheap?
If such a policy must be called opportunism, it was opportunism in its best form; and opportunism in its best form, under the conditions of party government, is not far removed from political wisdom.
Both do this doubtless in the belief that by this opportunism they will some day capture the whole party, and that a split may thus be avoided in the meanwhile.
This opportunism defends itself by an appeal to the "evolutionary" argument, that progress must necessarily be extremely slow.
No American Socialist has more ably summarized the dangers opportunism brings to the movement than Professor George D.
I have referred to Mr. Berger as a "reformist" to distinguish his policies from the professed opportunism of some of the British Socialists.
Revisionism and opportunism in the socialist party#.
Revisionism and opportunism in the socialist party.
The sentimental Liberalism of the young Czar predisposed him towards a French alliance, and his whole disposition inclined him towards the brilliantopportunism of Paris rather than the frigid legitimacy of the Court of St. James.
Such religious opportunismsmacked of the Parisian boulevards: it utterly ignored the tenacity of belief of the East, where the creed is the very life.
The Hapsburgs, having failed in their bold championship of the cause of reform and of German nationality, now fell back into a policy marked by timid opportunism and decorously dull routine.
Again, seeing that books on war have to do with such things as opportunism in designing plans, and the conversion of spies, they hold that the art is immoral and unworthy of a sage.
His courage, persistency, and daring stands in marked contrast to the self-seeking opportunism of the great nobles, who afterwards appropriated the results of his endeavours.
And so the Verwaerts now lives as two-paged evidence of the unlimited brutality of Junkerdom in Berlin and in Louvain, and of the unlimited opportunism of the German Social Democracy.
To be sure, the opportunism of the South Germans grew up out of the soil of particularism, which was German nationalism in octavo form.
The spirit of opportunism must have taken a particularly strong hold on the generation that came into the party in the eighties, in the time of Bismarck's anti-Socialist laws and of oppressive reaction all over Europe.
It was clear to every thinking Socialist that the only way the proletariat could be made to pass from opportunism to Revolution was not by agitation, but by a historical upheaval.
The old roar of opportunism led us nowhere, except to barren failure.
Anybody but a German minister would perhaps have counseled affirmatively, from reasons of utility and opportunismin order to solve thereby our home difficulties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opportunism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chance; liberty; occasion; opening; opportunity; place; room; scope
