conservatism

How To Use conservatism In A Sentence

• He broke with the mainstream conservatism in the early 1960s, primarily over issues of foreign policy and military expansionism.
• There is a plethora of admirable precedents to this form of conservatism.
• That's, kind of, the heart of what they call compassionate conservatism: that the American experience must be alive and viable for everyone, and that government has a role to help people have the tools so they can help themselves. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004
• But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
• Francis Fukayama's autopsy of neoconservatism is well worth reading, and makes many sensible points about the direction that American foreign policy should now take. Balkinization
• But no amount of framing could escape America's religious conservatism. Times, Sunday Times
• A consensus quickly emerged across the commentariat that social conservatism is a sure loser in federal politics.
• Critical perspectives on economics are key to countering the rise of political conservatism on campuses.
• Conservatism and caution can become complacency and quietism, even though they don't start that way.
• Economics risks suffocating architecture, but so does polite conservatism and a consumerist attitude.