So Mr Trimble must particularly dread a violent clash between atavistic hardliners and progressives.
Yet, this very reliance cracks open a door to an atavistic return to this defunct constitutional era.
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Some atavistic taboo, a notion of respect for the dead as if her mother still lay there in possession.
The government has not tried to exploit Greek nationalism, but anything that involves Balkan neighbours tends to stir atavistic emotions.
Israel does not seek to oppress or occupy and certainly not to annihilate the Palestinians in the pursuit of some atavistic Jewish supremacy.
But the party remains overly fearful of privatising farmland, partly for atavistic fears of a destitute peasantry, and partly for ideological reasons.
Scandal, or an eruption of atavistic, Conservatism may yet weaken Mr Cameron.
It's hot and easy to chew, and the juices drip down your chin, sending an atavistic memory of primal feasts racing through your nerves.
Italy's atavistic protectionism and disdain for freer markets both play a large part in holding back its economy and will not necessarily change even if its government does.
Geoffrey Hosking's patiently compassionate account of the Russian experience of the Soviet Union explains how this mysterious, atavistic feeling both survived and was exploited by the Soviet Union's rulers.
The filmmakers try to make Arquette and Slater lovably goofy compared to the rest of the characters, including the atavistic mafiosi of Detroit and the coke-snorting scuzzballs of Hollywood.
However, she never lost her ability to be overwhelmed by small things like the 13-year-old boy, a schoolmate of her daughters, who moves her deeply with songs full of atavistic yearning.
Equally, efforts to get Russia to join the World Trade Organisation should be stepped up, as its rules would usefully trammel the atavistic impulse within the regime to slide towards protectionism.
It goes without saying that atavistic emotions such as class revenge or the sheer joy of exercising absolute power are wholly alien to the character and political philosophy of Britain's present prime minister.
Or could it be that the presumed fault here is heterosexuality that for a man to say aloud that a woman is lovey is an atavistic instinct appropriate for Neanderthal man, but disgraceful in a modern male?
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He has indicated that his party's atavistic defence of hereditary peers in the House of Lords may now be reconsidered: good, though it might carry more conviction if he had not held his two-day shadow cabinet summit this week on the estate of one of them, Lord Cranborne.
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