Example sentences for: conservatism

How can you use “conservatism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT says President Clinton's proposed fiscal 2000 budget proposes billions in new spending while preaching fiscal conservatism, via combining such liberal domestic programs as urban housing vouchers and classroom construction with cherished Republican priorities like the military, the police and small business.

  • They have already produced for George W. Bush "Compassionate Conservatism" and "Prosperity with a Purpose."

  • This deliciously backhanded phrase--an allusion to Czechoslovakia's "socialism with a human face," which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968--conveyed three corrosive messages: that conservatism lacked compassion to begin with, that conservatives couldn't tolerate compassion, and that for this reason, conservatism, like socialism, was doomed.

  • They have assimilated to the institution and moderated their conservatism.

  • Any party expecting its program to be taken seriously as a left-of-center alternative to conservatism must surely propose one of two things: Either it must promise to increase in the aggregate the quantity and quality of public services (and the taxes needed to pay for them), or else it must promise, within an unchanged total of taxes and spending, to redirect the flow of resources so that the less well-off get more.


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