Fabian policy

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Of course, if the nation adopted the Fabian policy, it would be carried out by brute force exactly as our present property system is.

From Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion by Shaw, Bernard

Much could be said in favour of a "Fabian" policy of delay.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland

He had early accepted a Fabian policy and put his trust in Englishmen who shirked paying the price of maintaining the law they decreed.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

Greene came with his Fabian policy, acquired in the school of Washington, to repair the errors of Gates.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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