| 单词 | conservative |
| 释义 | conservative (kənsɜːʳvətɪv ) Word forms: conservatives language note: The spelling Conservative is also used for meaning [sense 1]. 1. adjective A Conservative politician or voter is a member of or votes for the Conservative Party in Britain. Most Conservative MPs appear happy with the government's reassurances. ...disenchanted Conservative voters. Conservative is also a noun. In 1951, the Conservatives were returned to power. 2. adjective Someone who is conservative has right-wing views. ...counties whose citizens invariably support the most conservative candidate in any election. Conservative is also a noun. The new judge is 50-year-old David Suitor who's regarded as a conservative. 3. adjective Someone who is conservative or has conservative ideas is unwilling to accept changes and new ideas. It is essentially a narrow and conservative approach to child care. Synonyms: traditional, guarded, quiet, conventional 4. adjective If someone dresses in a conservative way, their clothes are conventional in style. The girl was well dressed, as usual, though in a more conservative style. conservatively adverb [ADVERB with verb] She was always very conservatively dressed when we went out. 5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A conservative estimate or guess is one in which you are cautious and estimate or guess a low amount which is probably less than the real amount. A conservative estimate of the bill, so far, is about £22,000. This guess is probably on the conservative side. conservatively adverb [ADVERB with verb] The bequest is conservatively estimated at £30 million. Collocations: conservative critics Conservative critics will dismiss him as a western-educated academic. Times, Sunday Times Conservative critics have swiftly denounced what they regard as another, possibly final, betrayal. Times, Sunday Times Conservative critics complained that police were withdrawing from high-crime neighbourhoods in response to criticism and overly fierce scrutiny. Times,Sunday Times And what was fascinating about the reaction to his ruling was that none of his conservative critics actually rebutted his arguments with fact. Times, Sunday Times But generally, when it comes up, conservative critics have devoted themselves to sniffing at the downfall of civilization as evidenced through the increasing juvenilization of culture. Christianity Today In this, he faced strong opposition from the military/conservative establishment and its press. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was a great facilitator of new projects - and occasionally a thorn in the side of the more conservative establishments. Times, Sunday Times The major magazines and newspapers are vocal critics of government policies and take great pains to map out the personal and financial ties that hold the conservative establishment together. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He preached a message of national reconciliation, which put him in conflict with the conservative establishment which sought to punish those who had fought to establish a communist government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At a conservative estimate my grandson saved me about 10,000. The Sun On a conservative estimate she expects to pull in about 20,000 a year. Times, Sunday Times The saving from avoided fraud of all kinds would be, on a conservative estimate, 3.5 billion. Times, Sunday Times The project, mixing adventure and scientific research, has cost him $100 million at a conservative estimate. Times,Sunday Times His wealth has grown to 31m at a conservative estimate. Times, Sunday Times In a bold move for the normally conservative group, it also predicted it would be profitable for the whole of this year. Times, Sunday Times Generally a conservative group, most of the students surveyed say they aspire to work in commercial law rather than the socially committed fields of legal work. Times, Sunday Times The party has never regained its former strength and became a marginal conservative group. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What remained was a smaller, more conservative group of worshippers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two principal factions were a statist-reformist group that favored state control of the economy and a conservative group that favored the private sector. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its programs were among the first to present conservative ideology to television viewers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Furthermore, many political think-tanks have abetted this process by spreading conservative ideology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, he did not always follow conservative ideology; for instance, after investigating the lack of adequate housing in the nation he supported public housing programs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Economists are blinded by conservative ideology? Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The conservative leader has been an energetic advocate of the peripheral, if valuable, role of corporate social responsibility. Times, Sunday Times The conservative leader announced reforms to the labour market, financial system and public finances. Times, Sunday Times The conservative leader swept to victory on a platform calling for sweeping tax cuts. Times, Sunday Times He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conservative leaders in the shires have delivered a highly critical verdict on the government's main investment policy for local businesses. Times, Sunday Times Democrats fear that its 6-3 conservative majority might rule against including postal votes that arrived after election day in certain states. Times,Sunday Times But legal scholars predict that the new conservative majority will soon have plenty of opportunities to flex its judicial muscles. Times, Sunday Times Republicans want to lock in a conservative majority on the court for perhaps the next 25 years. Times, Sunday Times He has already made two appointments to the lifetime role in under two years in office, giving the previously ideologically balanced bench a built-in conservative majority. Times, Sunday Times It soon found itself at odds with the conservative majority and effectively unable to properly govern. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I sense that the syndrome says something about what has gone so badly wrong with the conservative movement in the past ten years. Times, Sunday Times In the postwar world, when the nascent conservative movement was finding its identity, an awful lot was up for grabs. Christianity Today For decades, faith and family have been at the center of the conservative movement. Christianity Today What's more, whether by the far left or alt right (the noisy new anti-establishment conservative movement), the media are repeatedly accused of being in on the act. Times, Sunday Times The event has been described as the birthday of the conservative movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left leaning approach from 1949. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some of this may have been due to extra-literary factors, such as his social climbing, his vigorous self-promotion, and his politically conservative newspaper columns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was roasted in many quarters, not least by the more conservative newspapers. ST Amongst its members were editors, journalists, publishers and businesspeople who were involved in declared conservative newspapers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Liberal and conservative newspapers mostly supported the government's actions and the court decision, while intellectuals raised their voices in support of freedom of speech. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But he's fighting a wave of conservative opposition. Houston Chronicle Even the conservative opposition may find it hard to make political capital out of the spat. Times, Sunday Times But events conspired with a ruthless conservative opposition to push him off message. Times, Sunday Times He will have to stick to this pledge even as conservative opposition mounts. Times, Sunday Times Despite vocal efforts, the majority of her proposals were voted down due to the conservative opposition majority. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While they both support tax cuts and limited government, they talk about them less than the standard conservative politician. Times, Sunday Times He was a conservative politician with a generous spirit and a liberal instinct. Times, Sunday Times He was a social conservative politician within the rightist party, but had a liberal view of economics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conservative politicians whooping and cheering at every announcement, as though the cuts were a cause for celebration. Times, Sunday Times To achieve this, conservative politicians and voters are willing to bury all minor ideological differences and use every conceivable mechanism to keep power. Times, Sunday Times As a result, they have often been associated with conservative politics. The Times Literary Supplement Even those sympathetic to evangelicalism and conservative politics will find certain aspects of the story unseemly. Christianity Today As often, there was a powerful alliance between conservative politics and arguments from 'nature'. Times, Sunday Times So why, by persistently (and unsuccessfully) pouring cold water on the nationalisms of small nations, should conservative politics lose the affections of millions of inherently conservative people? Times, Sunday Times They have been active in conservative politics since the 1970s and have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to free-market think tanks, charities and political groups. Times, Sunday Times And maybe the conservative pundits are right and that's the way it should be. Christianity Today Columnists and conservative pundits are in a lather about his candidacy. Times, Sunday Times Conservative pundits, who generally know what they like when they see it, have been converting to his standard in droves. Times, Sunday Times Also, the show reportedly has a demographic heavier in younger viewers than other conservative pundits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This claim was extended by conservative pundits as evidence for a liberal bias in the media. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its conservative stance has meant that the price has avoided the gyrations of other oil and gas explorers. Times, Sunday Times So would a commitment to a more fiscally conservative stance, embodied in clear rules that the party would follow. Times, Sunday Times The company has taken a conservative stance, writing off the entire 6.6 million of the disputed amount, as well as 2.8 million from previous years. Times, Sunday Times During his career, despite his conservative stance, he never hesitated to express his opinions, which caused some criticism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its conservative stance had been represented by its unshakable defense of the commonwealth status quo. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Neat moustache, conservative suit, courteous manner. Times, Sunday Times (2008) This works particularly well: like a flash of bright silk lining inside a conservative suit. Times, Sunday Times (2007) With his usual thoroughness Calder had packed a lightweight conservative suit of German origin. THE ENDLESS GAME (2004) Conservative support has slipped steadily over the past few months amid criticism of the party's lack of positive policies. Times, Sunday Times Conservative support was down to 27 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Conservative support dropped from 26.4 per cent to 12.8 per cent, the number of votes down from 11,773 to 4,481. Times, Sunday Times Despite enjoying much conservative support he raised taxes, pushed for congestion pricing, established bike lanes and worked hard on greener building policies. Times,Sunday Times Conservative support has risen by two points since early last month to 38 per cent. Times, Sunday Times On both sides of the political debate, conservative thinkers are struggling to contend with the great disruption. Times, Sunday Times The show features national pundits, political movers and shakers, as well as historians and conservative thinkers in its guest lineup. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This has been a highly influential viewpoint among modern conservative thinkers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His treatment of the period had been met critically by medievalists and conservative thinkers in general. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conservative thinkers condemned it -- along with other forms of indulgence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although the board strongly endorsed the decision, one elder who held a very conservative view resigned. Christianity Today I think this was because of the conservative view that rugby should stay an amateur sport. Times, Sunday Times But erring towards the conservative view, even if it means writebacks when markets stabilise, has to be the lesser of two evils. Times, Sunday Times More broadly, they perceived that the party no longer represented their socially conservative view of the world. Times,Sunday Times She came across as representing a conservative view. ST The hardliners failed to agree on a single candidate, splitting the conservative vote four ways. Times, Sunday Times In the interest of winning the conservative vote, he has blithely repudiated many of the moderate positions he once held. Times, Sunday Times He hopes to avoid a second round altogether, but with the conservative vote split between several candidates that may not be possible. Times, Sunday Times It leaves the remaining four candidates competing for the divided conservative vote. Times, Sunday Times The more conservative parties performed poorly, possibly due to the splitting of conservative vote by many conservative parties contesting in most constituencies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The conventional wisdom was that the social conservative voters were splitting their vote. Christianity Today Yet it cannot abandon the older, more socially conservative voters who have helped it to win many elections. Times, Sunday Times He accused the nativists of driving away conservative voters with their collectivist and rabble-rousing rhetoric. Times,Sunday Times Conservative voters are, as one farmer who e-mailed me today put it, resolutely hoping for the best. Times, Sunday Times Describing that 'us' in terms that conservative voters can accept remains an intriguing challenge. Times, Sunday Times Look, you have to give them credit: it obviously energised the conservative wing of the party. Times, Sunday Times The court, he insists, functions independently of its members' political leanings (at present 5-4 in favour of the conservative wing). Times, Sunday Times He became the unabashed leader of the conservative wing. Times, Sunday Times His election saw the conservative wing of the party gain control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This did not make him popular with the more conservative wing of the party. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The other was to show him as a mainstream, culturally conservative person. Christianity Today Both men certainly expressed socially and culturally conservative sentiments that had long been taboo in elite political circles. Times, Sunday Times A lot of this book shows how culturally conservative human beings can be. Times, Sunday Times Founded in 2003, the magazine describes itself as politically incorrect and socially and culturally conservative. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It seems that they were culturally conservative maintaining simple technologies and foraging patterns over very long periods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a deeply conservative society he remained resolutely idiosyncratic in his behaviour and musical development. Times, Sunday Times The pastor's policy of welcoming everyone has not been met favourably by a deeply conservative community, wary of outsiders. Times, Sunday Times An e-mail arrives from ... well, let's say a deeply conservative lobbying group. Times, Sunday Times It seems modern marriage has made us all deeply conservative. Times, Sunday Times For a deeply conservative society there are also important social changes. Times, Sunday Times Is he a fiscal conservative or a believer in borrowing to fund tax reductions? Times, Sunday Times The charge undermines his campaign claim to be a fiscal conservative. Times, Sunday Times He talks about being a fiscal conservative, or fiscally sound, but he voted over -- he voted 277 times to waive the budget caps, which would have cost the taxpayers $4. Globe and Mail He identifies as a constitutional and fiscal conservative and believes that individuals, not government, are best at solving problems and creating opportunities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fiscal conservative, she supports reducing taxes and smaller government budgets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The fiscally conservative euro-region governments need to wield sticks, not just carrots. Times, Sunday Times No dissent allowed whatsoever from the socially liberal, fiscally conservative line. Times, Sunday Times So would a commitment to a more fiscally conservative stance, embodied in clear rules that the party would follow. Times, Sunday Times I defended his fiscally conservative, socially moderate agenda and loveable tendency to work movie tag lines into important policy debates. Times, Sunday Times He was fiscally conservative as a governor, reducing taxes by $19bn (12.5bn) and shrinking the size of state government by more than 6%. Times, Sunday Times Rather, it was born of a highly conservative, rigidly ideological and constitutionally questionable commitment to the robust expansion of executive power. The Times Literary Supplement It also has a history of taking on work on a highly conservative basis. Times, Sunday Times Assume these are highly conservative estimates. Times, Sunday Times But while our natural languages usually lack the top-down engineering of code, they are still highly conservative, and only marginally tolerant of departures from standard protocols. The Times Literary Supplement Graduates of these highly conservative madrassas have taken up nearly 100 posts as chaplains in our prisons. Times, Sunday Times Its leading players are paid the sort of money that even the most free-market libertarian conservative would find obscene. Times, Sunday Times In contrast to paleoconservatives, libertarian conservatives support strict laissez-faire policies such as free trade, opposition to any national bank and opposition to business regulations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Libertarian conservatives' emphasis on personal freedom often leads them to have social positions contrary to those of social conservatives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, libertarian conservatives may be more militarily interventionist or support a greater degree of military strength than other libertarians. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this context, metaphorization risks becoming a political - and politically conservative - act. The Times Literary Supplement He was a durable supporter of politically conservative causes. Christianity Today He was politically conservative by the time he attended high school, where he worked on the school newspaper. Times, Sunday Times Military pilots, the mainstay of prior astronaut selection, were almost always politically conservative. Times, Sunday Times By the time of his passing, his show was considered to be politically conservative. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There's no reason now why a foreign policy hawk should make common cause with a religious conservative. Times, Sunday Times Its platform combines left-wing populist economic policies with religious conservative social policies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Religious conservatives may approve of the emphasis on family and temperance. Times, Sunday Times Religious conservatives focus on conducting society as prescribed by a religious authority or code. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Religious conservatives examining his voting record see him as a policymaker driven by small-government economic concerns, not theirs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A social conservative who has a lot of appeal. The Sun The little known opposition leader, a social conservative who has carefully clouded his more divisive views, has failed to win a majority. Times, Sunday Times I'm clearly not a social conservative. Times, Sunday Times He was quick-witted and fun: a social conservative with a smile. Times, Sunday Times One more social conservative on the court could tip the balance towards a national ban. Times, Sunday Times To a crowd of 200 people—relatively small considering the 11,000 attendees—he lauded the socially conservative awareness of the students present. Christianity Today She insists that all she was doing was inviting free speech on the issue in the socially conservative country. Times, Sunday Times He celebrated the public's 'socially conservative ... sense of where they're from'. Times, Sunday Times Far from it, for those canny enough to go with the socially conservative flow. Times, Sunday Times Yet it cannot abandon the older, more socially conservative voters who have helped it to win many elections. Times, Sunday Times His staunch conservative views on social issues attracted controversy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A staunch conservative, he frequently quarreled with his party's increasingly liberal philosophy and leadership. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was a staunch conservative and a churchman. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He strongly supported the right to life, and described himself as a staunch conservative on foreign policy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He became a staunch conservative. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Frank, the cheery, staunchly conservative paterfamilias, rejects extremist politics in favour of pottering in his garden. Times, Sunday Times The reaction of a staunchly conservative country will be keenly watched. Times, Sunday Times Tribal leaders are demanding to be heard, and in these staunchly conservative areas, some loyalties are also fickle. Times, Sunday Times At first the party was clearly nationalist and staunchly conservative. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Siri was noted for his staunchly conservative views. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This training enabled graduates, as individuals, to join the large, theologically conservative population working within denominations or to avoid denominations entirely. Christianity Today Churches which, traditionally, have resisted the practice tend to be theologically conservative and confessional. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The publication describes its approach as both theologically conservative and ecumenical. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Mining companies are traditionally conservative about allocating exploration budgets but the industry now believes strong demand will continue. Times, Sunday Times They are chalk and cheese in temperament and personality and a stark choice for a traditionally conservative body used to being pushed around. Times, Sunday Times For as long as players such as these are prepared to push the traditionally conservative boundaries of the alias, the future of darts nicknaming will remain bright. Times, Sunday Times Traditionally conservative public interest law movement tended to avoid original litigation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The newspaper identifies itself as a traditionally conservative news source and lists its political values as liberty, transparency, lifelong learning, free market and charity. 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