Conservative

//kənˈsɜːvətɪv//

"Conservative" in a Sentence (23 examples)

On the whole, the older a man grows, the more conservative he becomes.

On the whole, the Japanese are conservative.

The English are generally a conservative people.

Englishmen are, on the whole, conservative.

The union exerts a dominant influence on the conservative party.

The union has a dominant influence on the conservative party.

The English are said to be conservative.

Any political party is conservative in itself.

The Conservative Party won the election in 1992.

We are a conservative people.

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During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]

If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.

The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.

The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.

At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.

Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel.

George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny.

We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

Without the conservative organs, the body would receive no nourishment; and without nourishment, it would soon decay and perish.

Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.

While innovative in its verbal system, Sardinian is the most conservative Romance language in its vocabulary and phonology.

In spite of the vague evidence, I think that we may conclude that ME ǭ, like ME ę̄, had two pronunciations during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a more advanced pronunciation with close [oː], and a more conservative one with the ‘intermediate vowel’ [ɔː] […]

"Avanti has literally broken records over the last six months for delays and cancellations, and the Conservatives' answer is to reward failure with millions more in taxpayer cash," said Labour Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh.

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