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Conservative

Conservative meaning

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo. | One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions. | One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).

Example sentences (20)

It’s not that conservative churches inevitably grow while liberal ones shrink; plenty of doctrinally conservative forms of Christianity have suffered buffets or declines, and there is certainly no simple “conservative” solution for secularization.

The fractured conservative movement would spend more than a decade on the opposition benches, eventually leading to the creation of the modern Conservative Party – a deal between then-Progressive Conservative Leader Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper.

A Welsh Conservative spokesman said: "Nick Ramsay has been suspended from the Welsh Conservative Group in the National Assembly for Wales and from the Conservative Party following an incident which took place yesterday.

From the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, to the United Conservative Party, the People's Party of Canada, The Conservative Party of Canada.

Conservative Mennonites main Conservative Mennonites include numerous groups that identify with the more conservative or traditional element among Mennonite or Anabaptist groups but not necessarily Old Order groups.

And so we have taken, I wouldn’t say, conservative, but leaning on the side of conservative approach here, ramp-up years are challenging and hard rock processing is incredibly challenging.

As a civil rights lawyer and a conservative Republican legislator, he explains that conservative principles are the only principles consistent with living in freedom and fulfilling our God-given potential.

By filing their case in Amarillo, the plaintiffs assured it would go before Kacsmaryk, a conservative and former Christian activist, and that any appeal would go the conservative 5th Circuit.

Christian Vanderbrouk, a conservative commentator who previously worked in the George W. Bush White House, also noticed the prosecutors focused on quotes from the conservative justices from the right-leaning Supreme Court.

Colorado Springs, nestled at the foothills of the Rockies and home to the U.S. Air Force Academy and several conservative megachurches, has historically been conservative.

DeSantis has burnished his reputation as a conservative governor willing to push hard for conservative policies and even take on a political fight with Disney, which he highlighted in Sioux Center.

Elsewhere, Enfield Conservative councillor Paul James Pratt shared some pics of the Southgate and Wood Green Conservative Association's Christmas do, which saw MP Theresa Villiers appear as a guest speaker.

For the first time since Confederation, more than 10 per cent of voters cast their ballots for parties that were not Liberal or either Progressive Conservative or Conservative.

He was part of the conservative minority on the court before more conservative justices joined in recent years.

I’m a registered independent conservative, I left the party in 2002, was raised by Conservative Republican parents, in college I was a lib for a few short years and woke up.

I think that part of why the conservative ecosystem is rooting for Ron DeSantis is that he is a conservative that they understand.

It was high praise coming from Canada’s most recent conservative prime minister, a man who — as Poilievre noted — remains revered by the country’s conservative movement.

Last Wednesday, after 23 years at the helm of Peterborough City Council, the Conservative party were ousted by the, er, Conservative party, writes Labour Group leader Dennis Jones.

Nico Perrino’s piece admonishing liberal students who disrupted events on college campuses where conservative figures were invited to speak ignores the reality of how conservative value systems dominate day-to-day life in this country.

Reproductive rights groups have brought referendums to defend abortion rights, succeeding even in very conservative states, like Kansas, and revealing that public opinion about abortion is often less conservative than the opinion of state legislators.