Protectionist in example sentence

After Italy’s former central bank governor, Antonio Fazio, flagrantly abused his position to block a takeover of an Italian bank by ABN Amro, member countries agreed that future mergers would be assessed on five objective criteria, the idea being to prevent governments from blocking foreign bids purely for protectionist reasons.

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Before the war, America had been highly protectionist.

And any nation that would become protectionist over the next few years would deprive itself of the chance of getting the benefits of growth in the world economy.

Today’s statesmen like to say that they have avoided the protectionist error as well, but is that true?

For starters, the coherence of Europe’s policies toward Russia improved: the EU threatened to use the World Trade Organization’s dispute-settlement mechanism when the Kremlin announced new protectionist measures in late 2012.

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