I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conservative estimate (= deliberately low )
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By conservative estimates, 2.5 million people die each year from smoking cigarettes.
a traditional/conservative approach
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This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching.
the Conservative/Liberal Democrat/Socialist etc leader (= leader of a political party )
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the Conservative leader, David Cameron
the Labour/Conservative/Social Democratic etc government
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In August 1931, the Labour government collapsed.
vote Conservative/Democrat etc (= vote for someone who is Conservative etc )
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Cubans in the city of Miami have traditionally voted Republican.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agenda
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In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda .
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You can't bring the country together and drive through the conservative agenda at the same time.
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Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda .
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I can help keep a conservative agenda in the House.
commentator
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Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community.
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But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators .
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Phil Gramm of Texas at 5. 7 percent and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan at 3. 9 percent.
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The tone then was set by conservative commentator and unsuccessful presidential contender Pat Buchanan, who forecast a cultural and religious war.
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Gramm said he had to win Louisiana, but was trounced by conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan.
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The conservative commentator visited South Carolina last week after his win in the New Hampshire primary.
democrat
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John Tanner, another conservative Democrat .
estimate
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Even this conservative estimate of problem loans amounts to a striking 8% of the total loans in banks' portfolios.
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But on conservative estimates its size is likely to triple by 2025.
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At a conservative estimate the water was nearly a yard deep, even near the edge.
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Any differences that emerged could therefore be regarded as conservative estimates for the species as a whole.
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Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile.
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By conservative estimates , the agency has pared 2, 200 jobs in the past two years through attrition and early retirement.
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All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths.
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A conservative estimate is that 6 percent are homeless.
forces
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But conservative forces have begun to show signs of a slight retrenchment in their assaults on the president's agenda.
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The initiative moved firmly back into the hands of more conservative forces within the government.
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Far from being a new threat, evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades.
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The conservative forces were successful at first.
government
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He says that he feels most workers would think that they have survived despite the conservative government , not because of it.
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The belief in a less restrictive conservative government has foundation.
group
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That's the option favoured by the conservative group .
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The Washington Legal Foundation, a conservative group , has challenged the program in Texas.
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In the conservative group the overall incidence of stenosis will be very similar to that of the invasive group.
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It has been claimed that criminals, sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country.
majority
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Its conservative majority seemed to be moving steadily against the New Deal from 1935.
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The ruling highlighted the strength of the conservative majority on the current Supreme Court.
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It was alleged that there was an in-built conservative majority .
opposition
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The conservative opposition managed to prevent any real discussion of political change.
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In the past three months, all major opinion polls have placed the conservative opposition ahead of the government.
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The conservative opposition was composed of the privileged orders and institutions whose position had been challenged by liberal legislation.
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Yet family-planning funds to Third World countries have been limited because of conservative opposition .
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In the light of this document, conservative opposition to the constitution all but disappeared.
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Mrs Cresson has already several times hinted that parliament may be dissolved if the conservative opposition tries to block government bills.
party
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You are a man of the left, yet you are in a government backed by a conservative party .
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The leader of the conservative party , Lucas Alaman, was selected as president of the group.
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Without him, the conservative party closed its ranks and remained in power.
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I hope the people who have suffered from the recession will continue to support the conservative party .
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There was a swing of almost 8 % against the conservative parties .
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Now we are left with a choice of two conservative parties .
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One Nation won only three seats compared with 11 at the previous election; but it took votes from the conservative parties .
politician
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The takeover of power by conservative politicians lasted only three days.
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Some conservative politicians were inclined to agree.
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Finally, and most significantly, he was not a military man, but a lawyer and former conservative politician .
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Dozens of prominent conservative politicians and activists are working to generate memorials to honor the 90-year-old Reagan.
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No, say conservative politicians and industrialists, who are campaigning to save the nuclear plants.
position
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Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.
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Taken in its own terms, the conservative position is unanswerable.
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We now think of an insistence on grammatical correctness as a conservative position .
republican
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John McCain, a conservative Republican from Arizona.
state
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Women very quickly got left out of the picture and it was a very conservative state that took over.
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South Carolina proved why it is one of the three most conservative states in the union-along with Utah and Mississippi.
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Desperate to win in the third most conservative state , Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.
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Mary Landrieu, D-La., won her seat by 5, 788 votes, squeaking by conservative State Rep.
view
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He had terrifyingly conservative views on the ordination of women.
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They use it to promote conservative views .
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But on other prominent subjects, many more students are embracing staunchly conservative views .
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But with his conservative views on welfare and other issues affecting women, he was hardly our ideal candidate.
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The commission also said Brown is prone to inserting conservative views into opinions.
vote
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Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
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The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state.
wing
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In fact, some party stalwarts, particularly those from the religious conservative wing begged him to seek the nomination.
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He recalled watching the Democrats rebuff their own conservative wing until they lost their majority.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Labour/Conservative/Green etc vote
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Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.
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But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.
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But the Green vote has disintegrated.
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Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
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The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a conservative newspaper columnist
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a conservative rural community
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Despite Dave's quiet, conservative appearance, he has a wicked sense of humor.
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Even conservative dressers should update their wardrobes from time to time.
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June's parents were very conservative and wouldn't allow her to date till she was 18.
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middle-aged men in conservative business suits
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But this latest phase has now also emboldened Bush to press forward with his agenda in strong, conservative strokes.
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Dear old staid, conservative , non-violent Britain.
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On a conservative estimate, there are now about 5,000 books or articles that deal with it, at least in part.
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The left is hardly vigorous today; and, for the moment, there seems little chance of mobilizing a conservative society.
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They're also fairly conservative when it comes to social attitudes.
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They are as morally conservative as their parents.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Gramm may not win over economic conservatives .
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Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives .
fiscal
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He was a fiscal conservative even during the Reagan deficit years.
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All the leading Republican governors qualify as fiscal conservatives .
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Now, the fiscal conservatives of the east coast have come out on top.
political
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None of the existing forms of political reflection-conservative, liberal, socialist, Gandhian-have faced this problem openly.
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He came out of the war a hero and a political conservative .
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While he denies substantive impacts, he is a staunch political conservative .
religious
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To religious conservatives , however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
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After a ferocious election campaign, religious conservatives lost their majority on the board in November.
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Lena is a staunch religious conservative who slaps her atheistic daughter across the face.
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Some religious conservatives have opposed the act, saying it unfairly penalizes people to overprotect lesser forms of life.
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These days, the evolution issue is symbolic of the legislative influence of religious conservatives .
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But the candidate himself continues to court religious conservatives with fiery attacks on abortion and on Sen.
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By some estimates, as many as 2 of every 5 Iowa Republican voters are religious conservatives .
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Still, Buchanan appeals to abortion opponents, gun rights advocates and religious conservatives .
republican
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It was loathed by the Republican conservatives and the private-power interests.
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Dole will argue that he is the one candidate who may bridge the differences among Republican conservatives .
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The principal goal of Republican conservatives is to reverse the Roe v Wade ruling.
social
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Bush is not viewed as a strong ally by social conservatives .
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Mr Forbes will also have to persuade wary social conservatives , especially pro-lifers.
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He is attracting all sorts of working folks, Ross Perot supporters, social conservatives and Reagan Democrats.
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Still, many social conservatives in Colorado Springs are less concerned with party ideology than defeating Clinton.
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Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives .
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Those who govern the existing system, no matter how left-wing and revolutionary their political ideologies, are social conservatives .
staunch
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Both men are staunch conservatives , but of the two Lott is the more ideological and aggressive.
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Forbes is a staunch conservative , but the liberal Jerry Brown once proposed a similar plan.
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Lena is a staunch religious conservative who slaps her atheistic daughter across the face.
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While he denies substantive impacts, he is a staunch political conservative .
■ VERB
win
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Mitch McConnell, a conservative , won his third term.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conservative with a small 'c'/democrat with a small 'd' etc
the Labour/Conservative/Green etc vote
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Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.
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But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.
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But the Green vote has disintegrated.
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Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
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The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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According to a recent poll, the governor has lost support among conservatives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both men are staunch conservatives, but of the two Lott is the more ideological and aggressive.
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But the Rehnquist court is supposed to be composed of conservatives.
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But there are conservatives, who, while acknowledging the successes of quantum mechanical methods, caution against complacency.
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He, the apparent conservative , is the wild tiger, it turns out.
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Phil Gramm of Texas made speeches in which they wholeheartedly embraced the agenda of religious conservatives.
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They ranged across the political spectrum from rightwing conservatives to left-wing socialists.