Conservative

Examples

• Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But it was no longer all-powerful, because its nature made it conservative and inadaptable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She would marry him, he would go into Parliament in the Conservative interest, he would clear up the great muddle of labour and industry. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The world has grown older, and is therefore more conservative. Plato. The Republic.
• It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They knew their rivals were unscrupulous, and were in fact already trying their best to prejudice the minds of the more conservative Georgia cotton-growers against them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is fascinating to watch this kind of conservative in action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The conservative who loves his routine is in nine cases out of ten a creature too lazy to change its habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This is a difficulty which is common to conservative and radical, and if I have used three living men to illustrate the problem it is only because they seem to illuminate it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The average American family eats meat three times a day, while the average family of the more conservative and older countries rarely eats meat more than once a day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They are said to be conservative. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Education has always been a considerable nuisance to the conservative intellect. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No routine has ever done that in spite of the conservative patter about human nature; mechanical politics has usually begun by ignoring and ended by violating the nature of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For they were the conservatives of their day: between '76 and '89 they had gone the usual way of opportunist radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The ballot is at the utmost a beginning, as far-sighted conservatives have guessed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Cato the Censor (who died in 149 B.C)and other conservatives tried in vain to resist the invasion of Greek science, philosophy, and refinement. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I know of one reformer who devotes a good deal of his time to intimate talks with powerful conservatives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The class of routineers is larger than the conservatives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Their perceptions are more critical than the ordinary conservatives'. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Evidently travel by coach had not been as popular in reality as the conservatives had ardently maintained. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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