The perceived bias, and the clear under-representation of Catholics and nationalists in the RUC led to, as part of the Good Friday Agreement, a fundamental policing review, headed by Chris Patten, a former Hong Kong Governor and British Conservative Minister under Margaret Thatcher.

In the 199-1930 era, German Catholics generally voted for the Liberal ticket ( rather than the Provincial Rights and Conservative tickets ), seeing Liberals as more willing to protect religious minorities.

The announcement sparked criticism from some prominent British Catholics including the Conservative politician Ann Widdecombe, who said that Channel 4 appeared to be trying to " stir up controversy ".

The Liberals defeated the Conservative government in a Motion of No Confidence resulting in an election campaign that was fought along sectarian lines with Catholics largely voting Liberal and Protestants largely voting Conservative.

He rapidly became the Conservative leader, opposing responsible government, on the grounds that the colony was not ready for it, and throwing his weight behind Bishop Feild's campaign to divide the Protestant educational grant and put Anglicans on the same footing as Catholics.

' A good Catholic may not vote for the Conservative Republican party ' declared a Gaceta Regional editorial and the impression was given that Conservative Republicans, far from being Catholics, were in fact anti-religious.

In 1885 his Conservative party was destroyed by sectarian riots at Harbour Grace which resulted in several Protestants leaving the Whiteway government in protest over its conciliatory attitude towards Catholics.

Traditionally, Newfoundland politics had been divided along sectarian lines with Catholics supporting the Liberals and Protestants supporting the Conservative Party of Newfoundland.

Kent's Liberal Party of Newfoundland defeated the Conservative government in a Motion of No Confidence resulting in an election campaign that was fought along sectarian lines with Catholics largely voting Liberal and Protestants largely voting Conservative.

Conservative Catholics condemned it as " liberal ".

He sought the establishment of a Czech kingdom that should include Bohemia proper, Moravia and Silesia, and in his zeal for Czech autonomy he even entered into an alliance with the Conservative nobility and with the extreme Catholics.

In the 1900-1930 era, German Catholics generally voted for the Liberal ticket ( rather than the Provincial Rights and Conservative tickets ), seeing Liberals as more willing to protect religious minorities.

Writer Bill Kauffman in The American Conservative criticized its portrayal of increasing American antisemitism, in particular among Catholics, and for the nature of its fictional portrayals of real-life characters like Lindbergh, claiming it was " bigoted and libelous of the dead ", as well as for its ending, featuring a resolution to the political situation that Kauffman considered a deus ex machina.

Conservative Catholics took alarm at what they considered to be symptoms of pernicious modernism or " Liberalism.

Conservative Catholics took alarm at what they considered to be symptoms of pernicious modernism or Liberalism.

There was a leader of the Conservative party in each of the two Houses, and they were regarded as coequal unless one of them was either the Prime Minister or a former Prime Minister, or if a particular crisis ( as in 1846 – 1847 or 1916 ) had resulted in one clearly asserting authority over the other.

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

While they had yet to become electable as a government, they underlined their growing reputation as a worthwhile alternative to Labour and Conservative, offering plenty of debate in parliament and not just representing a protest vote.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

For example, the Conservative movement recognizes their clergy as rabbis, even if it does not necessarily accept their specific decisions.

Accordingly, a Conservative Jew could usually satisfy their halakhic obligations by participation in Orthodox rituals.

Orthodox Jewish leaders vary considerably in their dealings with the Conservative movement and with individual Conservative Jews.

The number of Conservative groups, their lack of stability, and their tendency to be identified with local issues defy simple categorization.

Although nominally a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the rich should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by the middle class.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

The European Democratic Group ( ED ) was formed on 17 July 1979 by British Conservative, Danish Conservative and other MEPs after their success in the 1979 elections.

In general, Orthodox and Conservative congregations adhere most closely to tradition, and Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues are more likely to incorporate translations and contemporary writings in their services.

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

As such, most Conservative rabbis outside the USA are exercising their authority as local rabbinic authorities ( mara d ' atra ) to reject the more liberal responsa.

Although strongly opposed by both the business community and the Conservative Party when introduced in 1999, the minimum wage introduced in the UK is no longer controversial and the Conservatives reversed their opposition in 2000.

* 1900 – Thousand Days ' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.

At the same time, however, the Conservative Party had a huge majority in the Lords ; it could easily veto any legislation passed by the Commons that was against their interests.

Instead it is used in smaller contests such as the election of the presiding officer of an assembly ; one long-standing example of its use is in the United Kingdom, where local associations ( LCAs ) of the Conservative Party use EB to elect their prospective parliamentary candidates ( PPCs ).

He played an instrumental role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846.

In 2002, the Committee adopted a responsum that provides an official religious-law foundation for its past actions and articulates the current Conservative approach to the role of women in Judaism.

Conservative rabbis also play a leading role at a number of non-denominational institutions of advanced Jewish learning.

Due to halakhic disputes, such as the controversies over the role of women and homosexuality, some Conservative Talmudic scholars and experts in halakha have left the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.

However, during the era of segregation many Southern Democrats were conservatives, and they played a key role in the Conservative Coalition that controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963.

The Conservative Thatcher administrations attempted to bring competition into the NHS by developing a supplier / buyer role between hospitals as suppliers and health authorities as buyers.

Conservative Judaism also made a number of changes to the role of women in Judaism, including counting women in the minyan and ordaining women as rabbis.

This role requires ordination by the congregation's preferred authority ( i. e. from a respected Orthodox rabbi or, if the congregation is Conservative or Reform, from academic seminaries ).

In 2002, the CJLS adapted a responsum by Rabbi David Fine, Women and the Minyan, which provides an official religious-law foundation for these actions and explains the current Conservative approach to the role of women in prayer.

Since 2002, the Conservative movement has coalesced around a single across-the board approach to the role of women in Jewish law.

Out of Canada's three most prominent political parties, neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party is officially in favour of abolishing the monarchy ( though the latter makes support for constitutional monarchy a founding principle in its policy declaration ) and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has no official position on the role of the Crown.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

The Conservative Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards ( CJLS ), consistent with the Conservative movement's general view of the role of Kohanim, has ruled that the practice of calling a Kohen to the first aliyah represents a custom rather than a law, and that accordingly, a Conservative rabbi is not obligated to follow it.

Historically, the Jewish Theological Seminary has taken the leadership role in the Conservative movement ( unlike the Reform movement, whose congregational organization has dominated its rabbinical school ).

After a brief period of Conservative minority government, the Earl of Aberdeen became Prime Minister in a coalition government of Whigs and Peelites ( with Russell taking the role of Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons ).

Mandy Rice-Davies ( born 21 October 1944 ), is a British former model and showgirl best known for her role in the Profumo affair and her association with Christine Keeler, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

It is notable that Cartier had intended to support an amnesty for Riel for his role in setting up a Provisional government in the Northwest but that the Conservative government ended up reneging on its promise to secure amnesty for the Métis leader.

On October 12, 2007, Manley was appointed by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to head an independent, non-partisan panel reviewing Canada's mission and future role in Afghanistan, a position he had discussed with Liberal leader Stéphane Dion beforehand.

Conservative Judaism is divided on the role of the Mussaf Amidah.

Reid took a leading role in the campaign for a ' No ' vote alongside the Conservative Party leader David Cameron in the AV referendum in 2011.

His work in promoting decolonisation, though it enjoyed Macmillan's personal support, was resisted by the Conservative Right ; his role in negotiations over the future of Rhodesia attracted the damaging and much-remembered description of Macleod by the party grandee, the Marquess of Salisbury, as " too clever by half ".

Rae nonetheless played a pivotal role in bringing the Progressive Conservative Party's 42-year dynasty to an end.