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conservative English
Meaning conservative meaning
What does conservative mean?
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Synonyms conservative synonyms
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Simple sentences
Tom's parents are very conservative.
On the whole, the Japanese are 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.
We are a conservative people.
We often hear it said that Japanese people are conservative.
His novel ideas are time and again getting him into trouble with his more conservative colleagues.
He is conservative to a degree.
Most Englishmen are conservative.
The local newspaper is endorsing the conservative candidate.
They were conservative men.
Many conservative Americans agreed with him.
Taft had become very conservative.
Tom is a conservative.
The English are generally a conservative people.
Englishmen are, on the whole, conservative.
We're conservative.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
So what is the secret to a school course in mathematics being conservative?
North Americans are more conservative in terms of sexual morality than Europeans.
Go put on something more conservative.
Movie subtitles
In times like these, when everything is uncertain, every conservative person should have a substantial part of his fortune. within arm's reach.
You see, my dear Anna has always been so conservative.
And when I say it will take two years. I am, as always, conservative.
Primitive natures would think this is fun, but for me it's too conservative.
I said before, and I'll say it again, there is nothing on land or sea to touch a good old conservative British make.
St. Bartholomew is an old church a conservative church a church that doesn't need to have its boat rocked.
And conservative too?
A bit more conservative, perhaps.
He wants me to lunch with him at the Conservative Club at 1 o'clock.
This or any other Conservative Club.
Is he your idea of a conservative?
Sorry, I find you much too conservative.
We're a sound, conservative investment institution.
Conservative money.
Nice and conservative.
I'm not the flashy type like some people. I'd say I was rather on the conservative side.
Apart from that I love this hotel with its conservative clientele.
Barnaby, do you think this is too conservative?
They're pretty conservative people, these Bemingers, and.
Conservative. Not a plunger, but a real nice client.
This is a conservative firm.
Said it was too conservative.
Your grandfather was a very conservative gentleman who didn't believe in extravagance.
I'm a conservative man, gentlemen.
I can't hold out any hopes, J.D., those boys are awfully conservative.
That's one of her most conservative outfits.
Listen, Keiko, that kimono's too conservative.
Perhaps you don't want to believe it. but I'm a very conservative woman.
I'm a strange mixture of anarchist and conservative.
This is an unprecedented event in this conservative city.
I'm very conservative, like my father.
Manda, are you a Modern or a Conservative?
News and current affairs
It was a Conservative government that first applied for membership in the early 1960's.
A Conservative government took the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community in 1973.
So what is the problem that America's new generation of conservative critics of social insurance sees?
The crucial point is that America's conservative elites believe Brooks, Eberstadt, and Murray.
Some neo-conservative pundits drew the conclusion that the US was so powerful that it could decide what it thought was right, and others would have to follow.
His populist rhetoric and religious fundamentalism have alienated a large section of conservative-pragmatist clerics and their supporters.
These concerns were reflected in the fact that the Society of Combatant Clergy, a conservative body, was unable to endorse Ahmadinejad's candidacy.
For the key audience for this meeting of Muslim king and Roman Catholic Pontiff was not their followers, but another conservative leader, President George W. Bush.
The problem is that Abdullah cannot rely on his domestic conservative allies to give him the time that the Kingdom needs.
For conservative rulers usually fall when they fail to grasp their own vulnerability, especially when the revolutionary challenge is cloaked in conservative garb.
Only an alliance of conservative leaders and powers (including a retreat by America from diplomatic radicalism), Abdullah believes, can restore some stability to the Middle East.
On the right, support for conservative parties is split between business interests that benefit from immigration or supranational institutions, and groups that feel threatened by them.
But the gap in self-defined religiosity between Saudis, on the one hand, and Iranians, Jordanians, and Egyptians, on the other, is so great that it challenges the prevalent perception of Saudi Arabia as a highly conservative and religious society.
Despite the sometimes downright pornographic on-screen writhing of Bollywood starlets, India is still a deeply conservative society.
Both are conservative and nationalistic, advocating the revision of the constitution and an assertive political and military role for Japan abroad.
Nor were his conservative, nationalist, and pro-American credentials damaged.
A Japanese prime minister can be strong without exploiting domestic resentment against the country's neighbors, and conservative, patriotic, and pro-American while forging a healthy working relationship with China.
At this stage, the best course would be to adopt a credible multi-year plan, based on reasonable but conservative growth assumptions, to reduce deficits to sustainable levels and limit the accumulation of public debt.
The 1970's were a transition period to the Age of Reagan - 30 years of conservative politics led by powerful corporate interests.
In fact, feminism is philosophically as much in harmony with conservative, and especially libertarian, values - and in some ways even more so.
Many of these women are socially conservative, strongly supportive of the armed forces, and religious - and yet they crave equality as strongly as any leftist vegetarian in Birkenstocks.
The Brothers, with the help of a conservative society and the mosques, were prepared to seize power whenever the opportunity arose.
No one in South Korea's conservative movement doubts that Park is one of them. And, as an icon of the right, she is well aware that she cannot afford to betray her status.
Nonetheless, Khamenei's invocation of the law echoes the demands of many conservative-pragmatists who lean toward Mousavi, who is not in a position to challenge Khamenei's authority directly.