mobilistadj.n.

1966 M. Weiner & J. La Palombara Polit. Parties & Polit. Devel. 426 A mobilist party (particularly in a one-party state) may be more compatible with the establishment of the minimum central authority necessary for economic development.

1966 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 60 396/1 He is contrasting the authoritarian-mobilist-communist systems with the liberal-conciliatory-democratic.

1986 Inst. Working Papers (UCLA: ISSR) (Electronic ed.) 2 No. 8 The focus..must be not only on the changing social complexion of the party coalitions, but on the relationship of such change to the mobilist role of the party structures.

1970 Science 168 1252/2 The fundamentally mobilist concept of geology that has emerged from this past decade of research challenges all past orogenic theories that rest upon stabilist concepts.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Aug. 903/3 Kuhn's idea of a sudden and total switch captured the bouleversement of the change from fixist to mobilist views of the continents.

1990 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 331 468 Strike–slip faulting parallel or subparallel with orogenic trend was a 20th-century discovery prompted by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was later incorporated into mobilist theories by Argand (1916, 1924) and Suess (1949).

1972 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 80 37/1 Both the mobilists and we agree on one point: the so-called Caribbean plate is moving eastward relative to the Atlantic, North America, and South America.

1975 E. Uchupi in A. E. M. Nairn & F. G. Stehli Ocean Basins & Margins III. i. 50 Three origins have been proposed by the mobilists to explain the origin of the Caribbean.

1991 Science 254 871/3 Though there were indeed well-known mobilists in Australia,..it is incorrect to say that Australian geologists as a whole took the minority view—the one that eventually prevailed.