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US
/kənˈsɝvəˌtɪzəm/
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[ UK /kənsˈɜːvətˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /kənsˈɜːvətˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes
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.
