12 sentences with 'conservatives'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conservatives and other words derived from it.
• « By chance, the radical, or liberal, members sat to the left of the president, and the conservatives to the right. »
• « Despite the misgivings of Catholic conservatives in the Assembly, Protestants saw their rights recognised by the end of 1789 thanks in part to the fact that Protestants already exercised political rights in parts of southern France. »
• « According to conservatives, the French Revolution had begun, in its moderate phase, arguing for the primacy of the common people, but it quickly and inevitably spiralled out of control. »
• « And, of course, the conservatives had all their suspicions confirmed during the "period of the Terror", when the whole social order of France was turned upside down in the name of a perfect society. »
• « From 1815 to 1848, these struggles typically pitted conservatives against liberals and nationalists. »
• « After the June Days, the government of the Second French Republic was divided between liberals, socialists and conservatives (the latter wanted to restore the French monarchy). »
• « Subsequently, conservatives themselves began to adopt some of the trappings of nationalism in the name of preserving their own power; as discussed below, the most notable successes of nineteenth-century nationalism, those of Italy and Germany, were led by conservative politicians, not utopian insurgents. »
• « There was genuine concern among traditional conservatives, the Church, business leaders and the middle classes that Italy would suffer a communist revolution like the one that had occurred in Russia - at that time Russia was still in the midst of its civil war between the Bolshevik "Reds" and the anti-communist coalition known as the Whites. By 1920 the Reds were clearly winning. »
• « His "research" immediately turned to enthusiasm, finding like-minded conservatives who hated the Weimar Republic and blamed socialism and what they called "international Jewry" for Germany's defeat in the war. »
• « Most centre-right parties outside Britain have been less willing to actually gut the welfare state than Thatcher and her conservatives, but the general focus on the market remains their defining characteristic overall. »