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You might have thought, given past experience, that D. C. insides would be on their guard against conservatives with grandiose plans.

Some conservatives argue that a student or professor who was armed might have been able to stop the massacre at Virginia Tech.

NARRATOR: During the dark war years, Britain had been governed by a coalition of conservatives and socialists.

And true fiscal conservatives understand that trying to run the world is neither conservative nor cheap.

And he warned it would be "suicidal" to put recovery at risk by cutting spending now, as Conservatives advocate.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often described, mainly by conservatives, as an attack against socialism.

It is no surprise therefore that even fiscal conservatives, like the Germans, are now borrowing as if there is no tomorrow.

Mr Harper is now trying to turn the Conservatives into the natural party of government, partly by forging their own set of national symbols.

Jiang Zemin, China's outgoing president, has been trying to rewrite party rules to let them in, against stiff resistance from conservatives.

Organisers call it a One Nation rally to rekindle enthusiasm for President Obama in the face of attacks from conservatives.

So do not be put off by the traditionalists, the conservatives, or those who cling to the illusion that change can only come from without.

The Conservatives have called it a "spectacular display of economic incompetence. "

"We want to say that we are a third voice; we are so bored of this game of liberals versus conservatives, " he said.

And lately, at least, every time Obama turns around, he seems to give conservatives an opening to pounce on him.

The Conservatives would also give the central bank powers to force lenders to spell out how they would be wound up in case of failure.

But another sort of nightmare is also beginning to trouble America's conservatives.

He told his audience the Conservatives were ready to take on this kind of challenges after years of opposition.

None of these reversals is a surprise, but conservatives have been taken aback at the unflinching speed of the changes.

Conservatives were happy to support him as he sought that position, but probably would not for a national campaign.

And yet some conservatives have turned it into a profane text, one that proves Mr Obama's unfitness for the great office he holds.

Trying to win the General Election, the Conservatives want to get their policy back on the rails.

Most conservatives did not so much signal their disagreement with the report as bellow it.

That tends to cancel out the appeal this upstanding family man and former bishop would otherwise have to the party's social conservatives.

Government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said the results came as a disappointment, but not a surprise, for the conservatives.

Just as conservatives appeared to have lost any sense that democracy must be more than what the majority insists upon.

But that does not mean, as Britain's Conservatives almost seem to think, that they cannot be judged at all.

On the eve of the financial crisis, conservatives had nothing but praise for Ireland, a low-tax, low-spending country by European standards.

To such conservatives, the present US government's management of the American auto industry is an invitation to disaster for that industry.

Many conservatives balked at the idea of any reward for people who broke the law by coming to the United States.

It was an upper-class institution whose students should normally have been political conservatives.

But some other conservatives, more deficit-hawkish and less tax-focused, see a VAT as one of the less unpalatable of a menu of bad options.

Rising, young Conservatives had never been afflicted by Imperial nostalgia.

It was an upper-class institution whose students should have been political conservatives .

Support for Progress is more than double that of the Conservatives, meaning that Progress would dominate any right-of-centre government.

AS THE general election draws closer, a crucial dividing line between the ruling Labour Party and the Conservatives is becoming blurred.

A full sense of what conservatives object to in the Obama program can be hard to extract from daily conservative discourse.

Conservatives are right to be irritated by foolish liberal claims that America does not face any hard choices in fighting terrorism.

The French realise that the British are likely to be unhelpful friends if the Eurosceptical Conservatives win the election next spring.

And yet his mild public manner makes his policies seem less threatening than those of other conservatives to voters in the middle.

The Conservatives' treasurer Michael Spencer, recently said the Tories "cherish the City" .

Those looking for a response to social breakdown will find that the Conservatives have worked hard at parts of this agenda.

Mr Jones went on to say that the Conservatives were too focused on achieving short-term spending cuts in the department.

Despite his image as a sensible moderate, conservatives increasingly claim that this is a sham and that Mr Obama is bent on ideological war.

And, with support for the Conservatives and Labour falling, the number of MPs elected by a minority of votes cast in their seat has risen.

It's one of many opportunities he takes to sling arrows at conservatives, remarkable for a man who served two Republican administrations.

Mr Dawkins dreams of a day when atheists are as well organised and influential as Christian conservatives have become.

Even the British Conservatives, who have wisely dropped their promise of a referendum on Lisbon, are slowly realising this (see Bagehot).

Many conservatives expressed fear over the past week that the president's address would be used to push a partisan political agenda.

The rest of the answer is simply the fact that conservatives have no other job-creation ideas to offer.

His monumental 1997 defeat following years of damaging internal rifts over Europe left the Conservatives out of power for 13 years.

Communist conservatives maintain that "democracy is hindering India's development, " he said.

The Conservatives also introduced the Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act, which strengthened immigration consultant regulations.

One of the remaining reformist candidates, Mir Hosein Mousavi, is seen as capable of attracting conservatives as well as liberals.

The coalition with the Conservatives is still new, and "its stability should not be taken for granted" , he says.

The dire state of the economy all but guaranteed a Labour defeat but it was not sufficient to give David Cameron's Conservatives a majority.

as a young man, he would step beyond the poisonous legacy of the 1960s division Vietnam wrought between liberals and conservatives.

Conservatives zeroed in on her failure to disclose all the campaign contributions she received from a Kansas abortion doctor.

Liberals and conservatives disagree about whether disgust has a valid place in making moral judgments, Pizarro noted.

Despite their defeat in the Sonderbund war , Catholic conservatives did not disappear from political life .

Perry has a strong record of job creation in Texas and appeals to economic and social conservatives, key voting blocs within the party.

Senior Conservatives who a year ago preferred the Lib Dems to the right of their own tribe now curse them as enemies of reform.

The conservatives who embraced the word "empire" a few years ago were being deliberately provocative.

If conservatives were to rally around a single alternative candidate, they could quite probably supplant Mr Romney with one of their own.

The law seems to have few enemies. Even conservatives like it.

Conservatives denounce the efforts as a 'nanny state' that undermines personal responsibility by taking decisions out of citizens' hands.

All in all, quite a welcome gift, if the Conservatives form the next government. They need not try blaming Mr Brown. He will not be there.

The British text would be rag to American conservatives already incensed by perceived encroachments on American sovereigntybythe world body.

The conservatives can be found down in middle management.

One gay Republican campaign strategist said he feared that conservatives would "play to the base"

Conservatives, including his evangelical base, had begun to get uneasy even before the nomination of the not-right-enough Ms Miers.

This would not in fact "grow government, " as conservatives in Congress have already begun to charge.

Many conservatives still loathe MrMcCain, and Mr Romney at least currently pretends to believe most of the cornerstone conservative dogmas .

The rot began to set in for Conservatives, of course, during Margaret Thatcher's heyday.

Yet conservatives sometimes mistakenly see that as the end of the conversation.

On the broader question of whether the 1. 5m women constituted a single class, the court's five conservatives said no.

Fancy the British Conservatives making a woman their leader!

The Conservatives seem now to realise that strong links to the United States are no longer enough in a changing world.

After years of victories by leftist candidates, market-friendly conservatives and moderates are gaining ground in the region.

Conservatives, including non-believers, also consider a church led by Pope Benedict to be a stout bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism.

What the broader American left would love to see in the protests is a progressive counterpart to the conservatives' tea-party movement.

Conservatives are limbering up for a battle to lift the longstanding ban on religious education in public schools.

If social conservatives were to coalesce around Mr Huckabee, that would throw the Republican primaries into utter confusion.

We're not fettered to either Labour directly or to the Conservatives directly.

These flighty voters, referred to as yawarakai hoshu-so, or "flexible conservatives" , are the kingmakers of Japanese politics.

Conservatives in India are appalled by the marketing of this product in a country that strictly prohibits pornography and sexual devices.

Conservatives, liberals and social democrats hypocritically point to the threat of the far right to justify "democratic" repression.

Will the Conservatives again be seen as the party of business they were once axiomatically taken to be?

It's as if Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour formed a government together.

Like abortion, gay marriage is one of those hot-button issues in the culture war between liberals and conservatives.

The Conservatives, however, questioned why he repeatedly appeared to add an element of business to holiday trips.

But critics have given warning about the cost and practicality of the proposal; many conservatives say that it would create moral hazard.

At the meeting, the two sides had a hot debate. The reformers put forward many reforming measures, but the conservatives were.

Now that outcome is looking less likely. Although the Conservatives started the year with a healthy poll lead, it has been narrowing.

Michael Moore, a documentary film maker loathed by conservatives, challenged him to a debate on health care.

Many conservatives like the idea. Many Democrats could live with it.

Once upon a time they commanded an audience among Arab democrats and European conservatives.

This comes on top of three defections: two to the Conservatives and a third who has chosen to sit as an independent.

S. administrations. However, Obama would not implement major reforms to avoid angering conservatives.

Karroubi's willingness to speak out in such graphic terms has drawn a barrage of criticism from Iranian conservatives.

His words threw petrol on a bonfire, since a growing chorus of conservatives is now clamouring for the outright repeal of Obamacare.

However, the opposition Conservatives are seen as having faced up to the issue more effectively.

Conservatives argue that this amendment is necessary to enforce the rule of law.

Yet conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy "change is the means of our preservation. "

In general older people and women tend to be a little more inclined to support the Conservatives than men.

For his part, David Cameron, leader of the Conservatives, has pledged to fight for the "great ignored" .

Yet social conservatives are only a small minority of the national electorate, so they have to pick a candidate who also appeals to others.

Mr Obama faces three sceptical constituencies: Republicans, fiscal conservatives in his own party, and the markets.

Some conservatives say it could increase illegal border crossings at a time when many Americans want stronger controls.

The Conservatives, who won a majority in May after five years of minority government, have long been hostile to unions.

Many conservatives resurrected traditional isolationism , protecting American moral purity against contamination by the expedient .

Conservatives, by contrast, clung to a tragic sense of man's inherent limitations.

Though conservatives are still arguing that Obama has little executive experience, nothing could be further from the truth.

Most conservatives, especially since the 2001 attacks, see Israel as a beleaguered democracy that shares America's Judeo-Christian values.

For all that, some thoughtful Conservatives worry.

A coal miners'strike and an oil crisis plunged the country into darkness. Voters blamed Ted Heath and voted the Conservatives out of office.

"Any attempt to diminish its enforcement is regarded as a direct attack on the standing of conservatives and Islam itself. "

All this looks bad for Britain's Conservatives and their neotenous leader, David Cameron.

Crucial in this transformation was the same knack he had shown at Harvard for bringing conservatives on board, even for liberal initiatives.

To conservatives, moreover, physical evaluation seemed to be the first step in eventual nationalization.

The Conservatives continued to maintain a lead in opinion polls.

Indiana is home to pragmatic conservatives, with a few southern counties dipped in the Bible Belt.

But this year conservatives were feeling particularly furious with the establishment and with incumbents.

This will not happen: mainstream conservatives in the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) call it "suicide" to tear up the deal.

Palin has proven to be a very popular pick among social conservatives and among some women voters.

'The Greens are taking over a large part of the tug-of-war against the liberal conservatives and will continue to do so.

Conservatives, meanwhile, see a "double standard" applied to Democrats and Republicans when it comes to racially-tinged remarks.

Natural conservatives have to acknowledge that their opposition to good statutory sex education and contraception is part of the problem.

But with a bare two-seat majority in parliament, the conservatives have been clinging to power in undignified fashion.

Conservatives and liberals have been arguing about these two strains for years, and that debate has become the pivot of our politics.

The Conservatives might wish to examine in particular the responses to the question on beefing up local control over public services.

Superannuated cold warriors and neo- conservatives are salivating over the notion of a new cold war with Russia .

Although California has plenty of Christian conservatives, they are less tightly bound to the Republican Party than in other states.

Giving power away was the theme of the Conservatives' manifesto for this year's general election.

For the Conservatives, the law is a deeply flawed effort that does not extend protection to political staffers or enforce compliance.

With an election due by the middle of next year, Labour and the Conservatives will be fighting over a miserable inheritance.

Many senior Conservatives hope, probably vainly, for a more harmonious relationship.

Washington is one of the few cities where conservatives regularly do battle with liberals.

Mr. Reagan built a conservative coalition, but Rowland says he might not see eye to eye with some modern conservatives.

If the media scales used to be tilted 80% in favour of conservatives, he thinks, Ohmy has reduced that to 60%; he wants to make it 50%.

Conservatives note that, despite Mr Obama's popularity abroad, America's allies are sending precious few troops to help him do this.

Though the Conservatives do well from the west's sense of alienation from Ottawa, the federal capital, beyond the region they are weak.

An evangelical Christian who balanced his state's budget has obvious appeal both to the party's social conservatives and its fiscal hawks.

Despite this, the Conservatives have decided to axe the watchdog that was set up a decade ago to regulate the junk-food companies.

For some time now, conservatives have been railing against the supposed "judicial activism" of liberal judges.

One might have expected more from the Conservatives, who stood for election in 2005 on a pledge to bring in school vouchers.

THE Weekly Standard, the parish magazine of American conservatives, is not merely a wry observer of the political scene.

Should the Conservatives win the British election, they may change eligibility for welfare payments.

Mr Mottaki's removal may be a sign of Mr Ahmadinejad's growing strength in a struggle with rival conservatives.

But social and religious conservatives expressed fears that they might now be accused of a hate crime if they denounced homosexuality.

But it was opposed by British conservatives, who also saw it as a step toward a social-democratic Europe.

The moderate centre may eventually feel the sense of "betrayal" expressed by conservatives.

Mr Clegg appears to have shelved such aspirations in making the compromises needed to sustain a coalition with the Conservatives.

The Conservatives' autumn conference in Birmingham had been intended to soothe these disgruntled Tories.

In fact, the data do not tell us that conservatives are uncaring ; they actually tell us that conservatives are optimists.

So the legislative path to "repeal and replace" , as conservatives call it, hinges on winning back both the Senate and the White House.

Many social conservatives applaud the push for a Constitutional amendment. But others see it as purely political.

Conservatives, meanwhile, believe the White House bail-out plan is the road to socialism.

And conservatives fear that newly-empowered liberal judges might one day create a right to gay marriage or government-provided health care.

Both the mayor and the home secretary back him at the moment, but many Conservatives see the Met itself as incorrigibly pro-Labour.

If David Cameron's Conservatives had a brilliant wheeze for guaranteeing every graduate a well-paid job, they would have unveiled it by now.

The prime minister, bloodied but unbudgeable, urged voters to "take a second look at Labour" and "a long, hard look" at the Conservatives.

Today, though, markets are far more competitive than ever, just as conservatives maintain, but they're also hugely more wasteful.

Republican fiscal conservatives argue that taxpayer funds should not be bailing out failed institutions who made bad loans.

A band of prominent conservatives cheerfully argue that states should be allowed to go bankrupt, so they can restructure such liabilities.

Conservatives make a good case that treating minority groups as victims diminishes America and institutionalises dependency.

Delay also allows the Conservatives to hone their own ideas for dealing with the recession, which have fallen flat so far.

Yet the opposition Conservatives, who will probably form the next government, are even more gung-ho than Labour.

In the CDU party headquarters, supporters were jubilant as the news of the conservatives' win came through.

Conservatives railed against the investigation, and Mr Rove was never charged in the case, but it wore away at his credibility.

But Obama-hatred could just as easily do the opposite and brand all conservatives as a bunch of Obama-hating cranks .

On the contrary, he endorsed the experiment and bravely defended it in the face of withering attacks from conservatives.

But rather than accept that implication, conservatives take refuge in a nonsensical argument against public spending in general.

But the cuts could backfire, toppling the U. K. back into recession and squandering the Conservatives' moment in charge.

The fault-line also runs between Conservatives and other Conservatives, and between the Tories as a whole and the Liberal Democrats.

Conservatives embraced the individualism of the market and reacted furiously if the state impinged on individual economic choice.

Bachmann told the crowd that defeating President Obama should be the top priority for conservatives next year.

And an alliance of Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and independents can easily defeat the Labour lords, should they choose to do so.

A decision on whether to support or even assist a military strike on Iran may greet the Conservatives if they win the next election.

Barney Frank decided to retire from Congress, after 30 years as a liberal nemesis of conservatives.

Conservatives hoped FOR a rollback of left - wing support FOR the controversial new legislation.

Conservatives beat back multiple attemptsto include hip-hop as an example of a significant cultural movement.

The Conservatives gained a landslide victory and were returned for a second term of government.

Instead the Tory MEPs now form the core of a cobbled-together new group, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

The ban was brought in by George Bush in 2001 on moral grounds and was a touchstone policy for religious conservatives.

Even many Tea Party conservatives are not on board with Mr. Paul's beliefs about scaling back the United States military worldwide.

Mr Brown insists that the Conservatives' opposition to his new policy is opportunistic.

The move sparked warnings that the chancellor was punishing the Conservatives' middle class base and undermining stay at home mothers.

Conservatives are suspicious of the very idea of a French or European Islam.

Conservatives should understand this and claim ownership of these ideas .

Like many conservatives, Sowell stands tall in the name of the people against the intellectual elite.

But a televised hug he gave Mr Obama early last year at a rally in support of the stimulus bill scandalised conservatives.

Mr Alito has regularly voted with the court's other conservatives, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Mr Roberts.

Ideological conservatives, too, tended to have strong reservations with regard to popular rule.

Richard Viguerie, another conservative veteran, says that "I've never seen conservatives so downright fed-up as they are today. "

Moderate Democrats are reluctant to pin their names to a bill that conservatives are branding as big government and anti-business.

Richard Viguerie, a veteran conservative activist, says that "I've never seen conservatives so downright fed up as they are today" .

After all, conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic spent much of the past year hailing Irish austerity as a resounding success.

Among the wider public, the trials appeared only to widen the rift between conservatives and their opponents.

Conservatives have clearly failed in their attempt to kill off Sarbox.

But conservatives feared that embracing universal values would mean acknowledging the superiority of the West's political systems.

Some have called for the tea-party conservatives to join the protesters in New York and across the country.

He told House conservatives to drop opposition to his plan and "get your ass in line, " according to a Republican aide.

Paradoxically, Carter's admission emboldened both liberals who sought to erase sexual taboos and conservatives who wished to enforce them.

Southern conservatives did openly challenge the constitutionality of such legislation.

The two remaining alternatives are a two-party coalition of the Conservatives and Progress, or a minority Progress government.

One headache concerns the implementation of a "fair fuel stabiliser" , a policy dreamed up by the Conservatives in 2008.

eg. The Socialists stands for nationalization of the basic industries, whereas the Conservatives stands for free enterprise.

Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.

But he has telegraphed that conservatives won't be allowed to hold back reforms.

More important, it's a coalition, made up of both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, two parties with very different voter bases.

Japanese conservatives, and many others, point to the South Americans of Japanese descent as a failed experiment.

But Mr Cameron is justified in claiming that the Conservatives "have made some of their own luck" .

If I put on a suit and tie, I never know if women look at me because I'm attractive or because they hate the conservatives.

But many conservatives criticized plans for the speech. Some called it "socialized education" or federal interference in local schools.

Opposition came from conservatives, populists and senators facing tight races where the rescue bill is drawing criticism.

It might also cut through the gridlocked trench warfare between big-government liberals and small-government conservatives.

Conservatives love to hate Nancy Pelosi: for them, she personifies the grasping hand of big government in the Age of Obama.

Progressives characterise it as too small and conservatives link it to the 10 per cent unemployment rate and argue that it failed.

The president's decision, however, is deeply unpopular with religious conservatives.

Communitarianism is currently the subject of much interest and scrutiny by both liberals and conservatives.

Frum was fired by the American Enterprise Institute. Conservatives criticize Fox at their peril.

As well as the Conservatives, the new centre-left Green Party, involving three former mayors of Bogota, will hold a primary on that day.

The Conservatives respect the paternalistic ideals of Lord Reith, a founder of the corporation, but are warier of the institution itself.

He's ahead in the national polls, but he lags in the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire; and many social conservatives hate him.

Most are nationalists or social conservatives whose views hardly chime with the moderate messages pushed by David Cameron at home.

Conservatives, for instance, tend to bristle when it comes to government interference in themarketplace or their right to bear arms.

Voters awarded Bradshaw the seat, in one of the biggestswings away from the Conservatives in the country that year.

Despite the Republicans' battering in the mid-term elections, America remains a country where conservatives outnumber liberals handsomely.

But he will not win support from the Green MP, and Tasmanian Andrew Wilkie is no fan of the conservatives.

Opposition Conservatives have hit back, saying the government isn't doing enough and that they would be tougher on louts and boors.

IF THERE is one thing conservatives agree on, it is that Barack Obama is not tough enough to be commander-in-chief.

Will economic conservatives cleave to a president who believes in "spreading the wealth around" ?

Mr Brown's tactics may look more like a headache for Britain, however, if the Conservatives come to power in May.

The new Conservatives, their leader said, would move beyond the fudge and delay of New Labour and begin to remake the state.

The news review team included a number of Republican conservatives in the famous people, including Sarah.

"Conservatives were supposed to be the bigger problem for McCain, " Zogby said.

Many social conservatives applaud the push for a Constitutional amendment.

In the eyes of some American conservatives, the war against al-Qaeda offered a similar opportunity to answer the call of greatness.

Trollope's saga is set at a time when the Conservatives could govern only as a minority because of their split over Free Trade.

Over the years he has voted with conservatives as well as liberals on the court.

A six-member panel made up of three Conservatives and three Liberals is looking at ways to reform the EI program.

The Conservatives would change this by replacing police authorities with directly elected "police commissioners" .

Conservatives will object vehemently to this characterization of Thailand's troubled politics.

Conservatives will object vehemently to this characterisation of Thailand's troubled politics.

As it does so, the Conservatives' uncontaminated impotence may become more an asset than a liability.

Obstacles remain for McCain, starting with the fact that ultra-conservatives can't stand him.

This lay behind the policy of "big-government conservatism" (a combination of rewards for conservatives and bribes for Democrats).

Mr Cameron has also failed to settle the Conservatives' ideological split over foreign policy.

Social conservatives disapprove of his tabloid smut.

However, belief in God is nearly universal among Republicans and conservatives and, to a slightly lesser degree, in the South.