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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(121) The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.
(122) I was, however, astonished by the Conservative candidate's comments about my wasting a £500 deposit on the election.
(123) He strongly denied accusations that Conservative policies had failed, leading to soaring crime figures.
(124) There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. Barack Obama
(125) Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard.
(126) You can't bring the country together and drive through the conservative agenda at the same time.
(127) Before 1979 the Conservative party had effectively acquiesced in most of the public ownership measures of earlier Labour governments.
(128) Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
(129) Dozens of prominent conservative politicians and activists are working to generate memorials to honor the 90-year-old Reagan.
(130) The conservative Cornish, who had not forgotten their previous grievances, had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy.
(131) He would have been a natural ally for Edward Heath, campaigning for him against the Conservative right.
(132) The combination of his views and his casual approach to politics sorely tested some Conservative activists in Aldershot.
(133) Camberwick Green, probably unwittingly, supplied me with a conservative counter agenda to the counter-culture.
(134) The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas.
(135) Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent.
(136) Mr Portillo's decision, which follows his admission last year to homosexual experiences as a young man, surprised Conservative headquarters.
(137) It is arguable that this interest has intensified under the present Conservative government.
(138) The ballot gives further notice to conservative Republicans how dangerous the abortion issue has become for them.
(139) The items taken were later given a conservative value of £1,420 by an auctioneer.
(140) It may well have been the desire of many, perhaps a majority, of the Cabinet and the Conservative backbenchers.
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(141) The Charter is up for renewal in 1996, and there are ministers to be lobbied and Conservative backbenchers to be wooed.
(142) Still, they encouraged conservative members to introduce amendments that would weaken the impact of an increase on business.
(143) There was a clear separation between the Cabinet and Mrs Thatcher in the minds of many Conservative activists and observers.
(144) Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda.
(145) The bill was blocked last year by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats concerned about over-zealous federal law enforcement.
(146) Her own policy agenda, as King notes, has often been separate from that of the Cabinet or Conservative party.
(147) In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater.
(148) An educated cleric well versed in Shia theology, he presents reasoned arguments for the beliefs of the conservative establishment.
(149) Will the Conservative promise to abolish education bring them a landslide victory?
(150) Navarre was a conservative, stable agrarian society in which Catholic Credit societies flourished in the late nineteenth century.
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