Example sentences for: conservatism

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

  • Libertarians and populists do share a political argument against big-government conservatism.

  • I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !

  • So Loury is now on his own (or rather, at the head of a small movement of like-minded people, centered on his new Institute on Race and Social Division): rejected by the black political elite, which still wants to blame everything on white racism, and equally rejected by a conservatism that wants to do precisely nothing about continuing racial inequality.

  • Dissenting views: Two contributors propose a muscular, pro-government Teddy Roosevelt conservatism.

  • Because Weld is pro-gay, pro-choice, and pro-affirmative action, liberals overlooked his strident economic conservatism.


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