CONSERVATISM


Meaning of CONSERVATISM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

compassionate

Critics worry that compassionate conservatism involves subcontracting social welfare to nutty evangelicals.

Call it compassionate conservatism on offense.

Critics also worry that compassionate conservatism is a leap in the dark without any empirical evidence to back it up.

fiscal

They speak of economic justice, economic redevelopment, fiscal conservatism and good business.

social

The opposition against him was straight prejudice, and a commentary upon the social conservatism of mid-Victorian trade unionists.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They like the Pope's policy of conservatism on religious doctrine.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Increasingly that view is regarded as retro, the old conservatism rather than the new.

It also suggests a unity of interest between the various forces of finance and conservatism .

Perhaps the most interesting response to the plight of modern conservatism comes from the cultural reformers.

The Declaration of Rights itself was couched in the language of political conservatism .

There are different depths of conservatism possible.

There was a strong strain of Anglophilia in the Alsop clan, and a consistent devotion to the politics of moderate conservatism .

What do you think is the most sensible assumption and the most questionable assumption of conservatism ?

Working-class conservatism and Conservatism is a well known phenomenon.

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