That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

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.

In the United States, the term cultural conservative may imply a conservative position in the culture war.

In conservative strains of Protestant Christianity, Scripture is understood to be the only truly definitive authority ( a position called Sola Scriptura ).

Throughout his career Bagley argued against the conservative position that teachers were not in need of special training for their work.

In 1965, the Menzies conservative government appointed an Australian, Lord Casey, and the position has since been held only by Australians.

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

Röhm lobbied Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defence, a position held by conservative General Werner von Blomberg.

Others, such as T. S. Eliot, rejected mass popular culture from a conservative position.

Later in April, Sloan sought to resolve the differences of opinion with a position paper that he hoped would set up conditions for resuming control of Opel that would put at rest the doubts of GM's more conservative financial minds.

Dennett argues that Gould alternated between revolutionary and conservative claims about the theory, and that each time Gould made a revolutionary statement — or appeared to do so — he was criticized, and thus retreated to a traditional neo-Darwinian position.

The conservative position is encapsulated in perhaps the most famous adage of public finance, " An old tax is a good tax ".

As a result, Clinton could run a campaign through the summer defining his opponent as an aged conservative far from the mainstream before Dole was in a position to respond.

While she would later hold the reformist position that the papacy was a corrupting influence on Christianity, her conservative tendencies could be seen in her devotion to the Virgin Mary.

A conservative force is dependent only on the position of the object.

Thurmond's conservative position left him unhappy with the decisions of the Warren Court.

But more importantly, McEwen was bitterly opposed to McMahon on political grounds, because McMahon was allied with free trade advocates in the conservative parties and favoured sweeping tariff reforms: a position that was vehemently opposed by McEwen, his Country Party colleagues and their rural constituents.

He obtained a position at Cutting, Moore & Sidley, an old and conservative Chicago law firm.

Taking a conservative or contrarian position as a bubble builds results in performance unfavorable to peers.

However, it has expressed strong doubts about the Iraq war, and some of its contributors, such as Matthew Parris and Stuart Reid, express a more old-school conservative position.

The promotion of a conservative, Li Peng, to the position of Premier after Hu's departure from executive-level positions made the government less enthusiastic to pursue reform, and upset plans of an orderly succession of power from Deng Xiaoping to Hu.

The general Jewish public remained indifferent to the whole controversy, and Frankel's position was gradually strengthened by the number of graduates from the seminary who earned reputations as scholars and as representatives of conservative Judaism.

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.

The uprising developed into a full-scale war with Russia, but the leadership was taken over by the Polish conservative circles reluctant to challenge the Empire, and hostile to broadening the independence movement's social base through measures such as land reform.

This is a relatively conservative date to begin the history of the nation, providing a contrast to the course taken by Thai historiography ( which reaches back implausibly far into proto-history ).

Education was transformed, under Lenin, the education system took allowed relaxed discipline in schools that became based upon Marxist theory, but Stalin reversed this in 1934 with a conservative approach taken with the reintroduction of formal learning, the use of examinations and grades, the assertion of full authority of the teacher, and the introduction of school uniforms.

A thing to note about conservative forces is that the work done going from A to B does not depend on the route taken.

However, since the 1960s, a greater permissiveness towards allowing regional English varieties has taken hold in education and the media in Britain ; in some contexts conservative RP is now perceived negatively.

" In the following decades conservative policies once considered outside the political mainstream — such as abolishing welfare, privatizing Social Security, deregulating banking, embracing preemptive war — were taken seriously and sometimes passed into law thanks to the work of the Hoover Institution, Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and smaller tanks.

A conservative force is a force with the property that the work done in moving a particle between two points is independent of the path taken.

A direct consequence of the closed path test is that the work done by a conservative force on a particle moving between any two points does not depend on the path taken by the particle.

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.

The label conservative was already taken by a parliamentary group of monarchists and colonialists, who fell from favour during the late 19th century.

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.

Nevertheless, conservative estimates of the Austrian losses at Wagram which numbered some 30, 000 men, of whom 24, 000 were killed or wounded, with the rest taken prisoner.

With the rise of dispensationalism, some conservative Protestants came to interpret the Book of Revelation as predicting future events ( futurism ), rather than predicting events that have taken place throughout history ( historicism ) or predominantly associated to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, a position known as Preterism.

Louis Tully was originally conceived as a conservative man in a business suit played by comedian John Candy ; but with Candy unable to commit to the role, it was taken by Rick Moranis who portrayed Louis as a geek.

They claim that the positions now taken by mainstream Catholics — even conservative Catholics — would have been considered " modernist " or " liberal " at the time of the Council, and that they themselves hold positions that were then considered " conservative " or " traditional ".

In modern Israel, the Pulsa diNura ( a controversial Kabbalistic prayer taken to request God to block any further forgiveness of sin for an individual, causing death or some long-term misfortune to shut the individual out from functioning in society ) has allegedly been used against politicians by religious conservative opponents: one was claimed to have been used against Yitzhak Rabin one month prior to his 1995 assassination, and another was reportedly performed against Ariel Sharon six months prior to a catastrophic 2006 stroke that placed him into a persistent vegetative state.

As a youth, he had taken up arms with the royalists during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, which suggested a conservative inclination in politics.

However, by the end of the 1920s, Stalin had taken over the Communist Party and begun to implement socially conservative policies.

Even back in the 1970s, Zhivkov actively pursued better relations with the West, overcoming conservative opposition and the tentative, tourism-based approach to the West taken as early as the 1960s.

Here the shift has taken place: Tolkien was profoundly conservative with respect to cultural traditions, as Moorcock is quite aware, but not at all an imperialist.

In the 1990s the indeterminacy thesis came under heavy attack by liberal and conservative defenders of the rule of law, and the debate, though its mantle is in the process of being taken up by a new generation of scholars, has left the intellectual spotlight for the time being.

Although some of the measures taken can be understood as part of a progressive movement, most of them are in fact conservative, since their intent was to maintain the status quo established by the previous military government.