6 sentences with 'conservative'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conservative and other words derived from it.
• « The southern kingdom of Judah was poorer, smaller and more conservative; it was in Judah that the Prophetic Movement was born. »
• « There was also a growing conservative faction in Rome led by Cato the Elder who emphasised Roman moral virtue over Greek weakness. »
• « It took about a century for believers in the old Roman gods, especially Rome's conservative aristocracy, to give up the fight. »
• « Although the cities did not "fit" very well into the medieval worldview, even the most conservative kings had to recognise the economic strength of the new cities. »
• « The death toll was staggering: in the end, the Black Death killed about a third of Europe's population in just three years (this is a conservative estimate - some historians today have estimated it was closer to half!). »
• « The imperial silk monopoly collapsed and, in contrast to Abbas's pragmatic tolerance of religious minorities, the state (encouraged by conservative Shi'ite clerics) launched waves of persecution against Sunnis, Christians, Jews and Hindus. These groups had been at the heart of Iranian commerce, and thus the brief golden age brought about by Abbas came to an end almost as soon as it began. »