Synonym: cautious, protective, progressive. Similar words: conservation, observation, reservation, consecutive, innovative, at intervals, consent, consensus. Meaning: [-tɪv] n. a person who has conservative ideas or opinions. adj. 1. resistant to change 2. opposed to liberal reforms 3. avoiding excess 4. unimaginatively conventional 5. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
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(91) In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda.
(92) The first two reveal an essentially conservative, royalist agenda.
(93) But they all accepted the Conservative agenda for debate.
(94) Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. Kurt Vonnegut
(95) Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Ronald Reagan
(96) Conservative elements steeped in uniformitarian philosophy cannot be expected to welcome such a rude awakening.
(97) Conservative critics continued to argue that the purpose of college was the propagation and the pursuit of learning.
(98) Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, and some political analysts believe their retirements could make the chamber more conservative.
(99) In the meantime, having placated conservative critics, the Bush administration is waiting.
(100) Of course my new conservative acquaintances take the opposite view, sort of.
(101) The new Conservative administration in 1979 wished to go further.
(102) By conservative estimates, the agency has pared 2, 200 jobs in the past two years through attrition and early retirement.
(103) These men advanced the same arguments against Holy Trinity that conservative theologians employed against the progressive Church.
(104) In fact, they could prop up the Conservative Government for a fifth term, if the need arises!
(105) The Conservative Party in this country has been hindered by the concept that winning the argument automatically means winning the people.
(106) All too frequently, Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities.
(107) Will he give an assurance that a future Conservative Government will take measures further to encourage savings?
(108) More than 50 seats were won by independents, many of whom are closely aligned with Mr Khatami's conservative foes.
(109) Mack, a solid conservative who opposes abortion, could help Dole in electoral vote-rich Florida.
(110) Clive DerbyLewis, a smooth-talking politician of the ultra-right Afrikaner Conservative Party,[www.Sentencedict.com] was the mastermind.
(111) Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
(112) Presumably its resources were thought to have been supplanted by those of the advertising agency that helped the Conservative Party to power.
(113) His father, Leo, was a successful lawyer and Conservative activist.
(114) The new leaders have been very aggressive in promoting their conservative agenda.
(115) It is no surprise that parliament should have approved a conservative plan.
(116) Increasingly, Labour and Conservative support has become polarized between North and South and between urban and rural areas.
(117) That is not democracy or power to the people - it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers.
(118) Is he also aware that he has the united resolve of Conservative Members for the speedy passage of his Bill?
(119) Furthermore, the Conservative Party was, it argued, the only party fit to assume this role.
(120) But with his conservative views on welfare and other issues affecting women, he was hardly our ideal candidate.
More similar words: conservation, observation, reservation, consecutive, innovative, at intervals, consent, consensus, native, consequence, in consequence, consequently, relative, narrative, initiative, relatively, cooperative, alternative, legislative, administrative, representative, consideration, interval, serve, observe, serve as, serving, service, reserve, motivate.