Fabian policy
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The result of the election, which took place in July, was regarded as a justification for the Fabian policy of social advance.
From The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease
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 Kuno Francke
American Revolution, 64-126 passim; great extent of field of operations, 67; really ended with surrender at Yorktown, 126; nature and results of, 126-128; proclamation of end of hostilities, 135; saved by W.'s Fabian policy, 257.
From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
Much could be said in favour of a "Fabian" policy of delay.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
Already they speak of the great results of Fabian policy; Seward, I am told, prides in it.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
