Fabian policy
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Your Fabian policy will cost lives, time, and money; the people feels it, and roars for action.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
By a Fabian policy of watching, waiting, warding, and assaulting at the right moment.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
His attempts to defend the Fabian policy, speaking as one of its victims, were hopelessly thrown away.
From The Lion's Brood by Osborne, Duffield
He was famous for avoiding pitched battles and hence the term "Fabian policy."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
Kaiser Rudolf II. in Brothers' Quarrels is one of the most human of the men who in the face of inevitable calamity have pursued a Fabian policy.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
