Extremely averse to change and strongly adhering to traditional values.
his social philosophy is arch-conservative
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The arch-conservative American ambassador to the UN sounded the alarm last week.
The advantage of having an archconservative American president, according to a certain line of thinking, is that he plants the seeds of revolt.
He's sure to stack the Supreme Court with arch-conservative judges.
The arch-conservative theologian does not reflect the country's self-image as secular, liberal and progressive.
Her archconservative, often libertarian, and sometimes extreme views made her popular with militia movements.
Some of the president's most ardent arch-conservative supporters are fired up for battle.
To the liberal, civic-minded elite, he was widely seen as a showman, a closet politician whose arch-conservative views were at odds with the values of a secular democracy.
More than a history, it is a checklist of arch-conservative talking points.
In 1996 he backed an arch-conservative Texas senator for the Republican presidential nomination.
The arch-conservative editor of Commentary magazine recalled that in 1957 Roth complained to a mutual friend that he "disapproved of how foul-mouthed I was".
He was known for his arch-conservative views.
For over a year, the president's chief strategist has been targeting this arch-conservative group.
They fund diverse cultural fare in otherwise archconservative Utah.
Such judgmental questions sound like that arch-conservative self-righteous man who every young woman in the vicinity knows is a groping ogler.
Agents of change don't usually rise to the top in the arch-conservative world of Japanese business.
He made his last political speech in support of the arch-conservative John Claudius Beresford in 1802.
The pamphlet continues to circulate among archconservative and white supremacist groups worldwide.
The funny thing, of course, is that both arch-conservative dissenters and arch-liberal dissenters from the Catholic Church talk this way.
While his archconservative views on some social issues drove more people away from his church, he never allowed his ideas to fuel malice or hatred.
It is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch-conservative.
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A person who is extremely averse to change and strongly adheres to traditional values.
her father was an arch-conservative in the colonial era tradition
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In this article, you incorrectly mislabeled Milton Friedman as an "arch-conservative" when Friedman is actually a libertarian.
His supporters say it is misguided to describe him as an archconservative in thrall to big business.
The arch-conservative died of medical causes at a medical center in Raleigh.
It makes it that much easier to portray someone like him as a right-of-center moderate instead of the arch-conservative he truly is.
His father was born into a rigid religious sect and was an archconservative - the empire, the colonial system and all that.
He has sometimes been pigeonholed as an arch-conservative.
The first universal health insurance system was forged and passed in 1883 by an archconservative, Germany's Otto von Bismarck.
They justified their alliance with the arch-conservative by explaining that it was a call for political reform, not an endorsement of his platform.
He said he took the advice to heart, and jokingly called himself an "arch-conservative."
Born in 1881, he remained an arch-conservative, paying homage to his Soviet masters in the stirring march themes of the extrovert finale.
The first few weeks of primaries, when he visited Bob Jones University and defined himself as an arch-conservative, harmed his general election standing.
The single greatest critic of the British Empire, Edmund Burke, was an archconservative who saw imperialism as an essentially radical project.
Her ex-best friend is now an arch-conservative with two children and a husband who knows nothing of her past.
They're scared to death of this guy because they really believe he is the archconservative that they've always feared would step forward.
He is regarded by many as an arch-conservative and enemy of postwar democratic reforms.
Theologically he was an arch-conservative and his refusal to condone condom usage has been a huge impediment in the fight against AIDS.
He was an archconservative who saw the world in terms of good and evil.
The Reform Party national committee will vote on whether to oust the pugilistic arch-conservative who is seeking that party's candidacy.
It's exactly the interpretation you would expect from an arch-conservative secure in his ideology.
He is an arch-conservative who will stop at nothing to win political victory.