Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.

At the turn of the 20th century, a conservative anti-imperialist movement, the Boxer Rebellion, violently revolted against foreign suppression over vast areas in Northern China.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

This is a departure from Nkrumah's foreign policy approach ; Nkrumah was frequently accused of subverting African regimes, such as Togo and Côte d ' Ivoire, which he considered ideologically conservative.

Bismarck's post-1871 foreign policy was conservative and basically aimed at security and preventing the dreaded scenario of a Franco-Russian alliance, which would trap Germany between the two in a war.

He strengthened his position with domestic and foreign financial circles through conservative economic policies.

After 1933 he became a leading conservative spokesman in opposition to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal.

It expressed concern about conservative elements within the KSČ and so-called " foreign " forces.

Even the most conservative elements within the Qing court could no longer ignore China's military weakness in contrast to the foreign " barbarians " literally beating down its gates.

With a conservative law-and-order message and a pro-Western foreign policy, the SVLP dominated politics from the mid-1960s until the mid-1980s.

Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.

The conservative character of the king, which in foreign policy up to 1806 had manifested itself in unconditional loyalty to Saxon interests, hardened even more after the experience of Napoleonic hegemony.

The blogosphere term fisking originates from various American conservative blogs, which have taken particular issue with Mr. Fisk, who holds a " very skeptical view of U. S. foreign policy ", and his articles and reports.

In 2008, polls showed there was more anti-Americanism than before the Bush administration formed the Bush Doctrine ; this increase was probably, at least partially, a result of implementing the Bush doctrine and conservative foreign policy.

With the arrival of the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global " doctrine ," including U. S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Even Cato, however, conceded that the Reagan Doctrine had " fired the enthusiasm of the conservative movement in the United States as no foreign policy issue has done in decades.

Reagan and other conservative advocates of the Reagan Doctrine advocates also argued that the doctrine served U. S. foreign policy and strategic objectives and was a moral imperative against the former Soviet Union, which Reagan, his advisers, and supporters labeled an " evil empire.

The Post editorial positions on foreign policy and economic issues have seen a definitively conservative bent: it steadfastly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, warmed to President George W. Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security, opposed a deadline for U. S. withdrawal from the Iraq War, and advocated free trade agreements, including CAFTA.

The conservative patron for the RMS, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, agreed — provided Nikolai Zaremba, who had taken over for Rubinstein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory was also appointed, along with a distinguished foreign composer.

Whilst at one level conservative — harking back in foreign policy to the period of Phillip II, invoking traditional values at home — Philip's policies were also radical, rejecting the policy towards the rebellious Dutch that had held since 1609, entering into the Thirty Years ' War, and introducing a system of junta, or small committee, government across Spain in competition to the traditional system of royal councils.

His foreign policy from 1814 was to work with the leaders represented at the Congress of Vienna to provide a peace in Europe consistent with the conservative mood of the day.

Although he was regarded as a conservative and a hawk on foreign policies, Fukuda drew international criticism when he caved in to the demands of a group of terrorists who hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 472, saying " Jinmei wa chikyû yori omoi ( The value of a human life outweighs the Earth ).

In the 1970s, the conservative German historian Andreas Hillgruber, together with his close associate Klaus Hildebrand, was involved in a very acrimonious debate with the leftish German historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler over the merits of the Primat der Aussenpolitik (" primacy of foreign politics ") and Primat der Innenpolitik (" primacy of domestic politics ") schools.

In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament -- the elected representatives -- at the expense of the more conservative judiciary.

In Why F A Hayek is a Conservative, British policy analyst Madsen Pirie believes Hayek mistakes the nature of the conservative outlook.

His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.

He identified himself as a political independent although he held conservative opinions on several issues, including the Vietnam War ( he once wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. to defend the Johnson Administration's military policy ).

This trend appears to have been halted and reversed since independence, as the Namibian Government is now pursuing a conservative resource management policy along with an aggressive fisheries enforcement campaign.

Controversy over this policy created political pressure to amend the policy, with socially liberal efforts seeking a repeal of the ban and socially conservative groups wishing to reinforce it by statute.

Like other senior members of the party, after having no conservative government since Alexander Mair in 1941, Robson had no experience in government, had little interest in policy and alienated many party members by trying to forge a closer alliance with Michael Bruxner's Country Party.

In the early 1980s, in order to control inflation, a conservative monetary policy and tight fiscal measures were adopted.

At this time, the US had a conservative monetary policy and did not want to increase the total amount of US dollars in existence.

This was ostensibly because a chronological survey of the story of modern art along the lines of the Museum of Modern Art in New York would expose the large gaps in the collections, the result of the Tate's conservative acquisitions policy for the first half of the 20th century.

The CIA World Factbook says: " South African economic policy is fiscally conservative, but pragmatic, focusing on targeting inflation and liberalising trade as means to increase job growth and household income.

The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.

During his first term of office, from 1921 to 1926, King pursued a conservative domestic policy with the object of lowering wartime taxes and, especially, wartime ethnic tensions, as well as defusing postwar labour conflicts.

Former Prime Minister José Maria Aznar presides over the Fundación para el Analisis y los Estudios Sociales ( FAES ), a policy institute that is associated with the conservative Popular Party ( PP ).

They advocated a clash with Giscard d ' Estaing because they thought his policy bewildered the conservative electorate.

A vocal critic of conservative government policy, his outspoken rhetoric in parliament earned him the nickname " Schmidt-Schnauze ".

It has also been suggested that the " compassionate conservatism " espoused by President Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign was a form of conservative communitarian thinking, though he too did not implement it in his policy program.

A dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative.

Is it after all possible that no matter how the liberals trumpet their confidence in human dignity they are exposed to a contagion of fear more insidious than any conservative has ever to worry about??

The anti-globalization movement has been criticized by politicians, members of conservative think tanks, and many mainstream economists.

The King-James-Only Movement — or more correctly, movements, since it has many variations — became a divisive force in fundamentalism only as conservative modern Bible translations, such as the New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) and the New International Version ( NIV ) began to appear in the 1970s.

In a reference frame uniformly rotating at angular rate Ω, the fictitious centrifugal force is conservative and has a potential energy of the form:

Since its formation, the CSU has been more conservative than the CDU.

Generally, the ( liberal ) right beyond the specific case of huge and conservative Civic Democratic Party is splintered and has failed in several attempts to unite.

The liberal conservative tradition in the United States combines the economic individualism of the classical liberals with a Burkean form of conservatism ( which has also become part of the American conservative tradition, such as in the writings of Russell Kirk ).

A secondary meaning for the term liberal conservatism that has developed in Europe is a combination of more modern conservative ( less traditionalist ) views with those of social liberalism.

Since then, the Swiss People's Party has moved to the extreme right and is no longer considered to be conservative.

Unlike other Scandanivian conservative ( and liberal ) parties, it has always had a large working-class following.

Thatcher was described as " a radical in a conservative party ", and her ideology has been seen as confronting " established institutions " and the " accepted beliefs of the elite ", both concepts incompatible with the traditional conception of conservatism as signifying support for the established order and existing social convention.

Most recently, the Tea Party movement, founded in 2009, has proven a large outlet for populist American conservative ideas.

Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.

A conservative in both art and politics, he in a 1962 speech denounced modern art as " a piece of canvas that looks like a broken-down Tin Lizzie, loaded with paint, has been driven over it.

" Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades.

Stoiber, on the other hand favors a more conservative approach to both fiscal and social matters, and while this ensures him the religious vote, strongest in Bavaria, it has weakened his support at the national level.

Nonetheless, a poll has suggested over 9 % may have voted differently if the conservative candidate was a man from the West, although this does not clearly show if such a candidate would have gained or lost votes for the conservatives.

An electric field has the special property that it is conservative, which means that the path taken by the test charge is irrelevant: all paths between two specified points expend the same energy, and thus a unique value for potential difference may be stated.

While some conservative evangelicals believe the label has broadened too much beyond its more limiting traditional distinctives, this trend is nonetheless strong enough to create significant ambiguity in the term.

In 2004 director Robert Greenwald produced the documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, which argues that Fox News has a conservative bias.

A poll by Rasmussen Reports found that 31 percent of Americans feel Fox News has a conservative bias, and 15 percent that it has a liberal bias.

His essay has served as an inspiration to other liberal-minded economists wishing to distinguish themselves from conservative thinkers, for example James M. Buchanan's essay " Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism ".