Fabian Society
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But the Fabian Society report suggests a care cap should simply be "considered" as an option by Labour, with reform of means-testing as another possibility.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2023
In 1960, she became General Secretary of the Fabian Society, the intellectual socialist movement, a post she held until her eventual election as MP for Hitchin in 1964.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2021
During her eventful life, Nesbit wrote dozens of books, raised four kids and helped found the socialist Fabian Society, but her enduring influence, this biography argues, is as a pioneer of witty, naturalistic children’s classics.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
This is from Sunder Katwala, the former general secretary of the Labour thinktank, the Fabian Society.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2015
If the Fabian Society were rewriting its Basis now I doubt if any section would insist even upon that eviscerated “without compensation.”
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
