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Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctrinaire ...

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doctrinaire
 a.  unable to compromise about points of doctrine; unyielding
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1  Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctrinaire hard liners crushed his dreams of democracy.