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Conservative and legislators
Conservative Oklahoma state legislators reacted by demanding Hill's resignation from the university, then introducing a bill to prohibit the university from accepting donations from out-of-state residents, and finally attempting to pass legislation to close down the law school.
Conservative Democratic Party legislators took over all of the Southern state governments as all remaining U. S. troops were pulled out of the South by President Rutherford B. Hayes under the Compromise of 1877.
Conservative legislators felt the word " conservative " was unpopular with the public at the time, however, and the organization was renamed as the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Politically, Burnaby has maintained a centre-left city council ( which recently completely eliminated the city's debt ) and school board for many years, while sometimes electing more conservative legislators provincially ( for the Social Credit and BC Liberal parties ) and federally ( for the Reform, Alliance, and Conservative parties ).
Opposition came from both Conservative and National Liberal legislators, who viewed Northern Dobruja as an inhospitable, nonstrategic and non-Romanian territory.
Among them, he was founder of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization of state legislators ; a co-founder of the Council for National Policy, a strategy-formulating organization for social conservatives ; co-publisher of the magazine Conservative Digest ; and national chairman of Coalitions for America, an association of conservative activist organizations.
It may be noted that opposition legislators had also purchased WEC stock during this period, and that Clubb's shares were in fact purchased by prominent Conservative legislator John Thomas Haig.

Conservative and also
Grimond also sought an intellectual revival of the party, seeking to position it as a non-socialist radical alternative to the Conservative government of the day.
Taverne's Lincoln by-election campaign was also helped to a lesser degree by problems with the Conservative candidate, Monday Club chairman Jonathan Guinness.
He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.
One firm, Scammell and Nephew Ltd, took a civil action against Attlee and the other Labour members of the committee ( although not against the Conservative members who had also supported this ).
The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.
Conservative Judaism ( also known as Masorti Judaism outside of the United States and Canada ) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.
Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).
However, Conservative Judaism also rejects the Reform view, that the Torah was not revealed but divinely inspired.
After a further decade of debate, in 1983, JTS voted to admit women for ordination as Conservative rabbis, also without adopting an explanatory responsum.
Conservative rabbis also play a leading role at a number of non-denominational institutions of advanced Jewish learning.
The faculties of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York and of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts also includes a large number of Conservative rabbis.
Many smaller programs, such as Rabbi Benay Lappe's SVARA yeshiva, are also led by Conservative rabbis.
It is also known as Bosniak Conservative Party.
There is also Croatian Democratic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( HDZBIH ) which is considered Croatian Conservative Party and Serbian Democratic Party as Serbian Conservative Party.
He has also written for The American Conservative and LewRockwell. com.
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.
The collection also contains speeches, sermons, articles, and remarks from the Conservative Jewish viewpoint on subjects such as Jewish medical ethics, dietary laws, adoption, and marriage and divorce.
Conservative Judaism also regards the halakhic system of multiple daily services as mandatory.
However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.
Led by the opposition National Conservative Party, right-wing nationalists won a majority of the seats nationwide and also captured the Riga mayoralty in the 29 May 1994 municipal elections.
Masorti Olami ( also known as The World Council of Conservative / Masorti Synagogues ) builds, renews and strengthens Jewish life throughout the world, with efforts that focus on existing and developing communities in Europe, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons — previously an area in which he was seen as weak — and finally Conservative MPs challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 22 November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major.
These visits enabled him to meet and take the measure of his adversaries Napoleon III, and the British Prime Minister Palmerston and Foreign Secretary Earl Russell, and also of the British Conservative politician Disraeli, later to be Prime Minister in the 1870s – who later claimed to have said of Bismarck's visit " Be careful of that man – he means every word he says ".
He also offered his resignation as the head of the Conservative party, but it was not accepted and he was convinced to stay.

Conservative and opposed
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.
While Bennett supported the Conservatives, he opposed Prime Minister Robert Borden's proposal for a Union Government that would include both Conservatives and Liberals, fearing that this would ultimately hurt the Conservative Party.
In forming the caucus, Cameron is reportedly breaking with two decades of co-operation by the UK's Conservative Party with the mainstream European Christian Democrats and conservatives in the European parliament, the European People's Party ( EPP ) on the grounds that it is dominated by European federalists and supporters of the Lisbon treaty, which is opposed by the Tories.
They are strong advocates of marriage and believe the Conservative Party should back the institution with tax breaks and have opposed Labour's alleged assault on both traditional family structures and fatherhood.
Baldwin and many of the more progressive members of the Conservative Party fundamentally opposed Lloyd George and those who supported him on moral grounds.
Wang Anshi's New Policies Group ( Xin Fa ), also known as the ' Reformers ', were opposed by the ministers in the ' Conservative ' faction led by the historian and Chancellor Sima Guang ( 1019 – 1086 ).
In March 2011, Robinson participated in the ' March for the Alternative ' protests in Central London, which opposed the Conservative led Coalition UK Government's spending cuts programme.
Consequentially the paper opposed Macmillan ’ s government ’ s re-election in 1959, complaining: " The continued Conservative pretence that Suez was a good, a noble, a wise venture has been too much to stomach … the Government is taking its stand on a solid principle: ' Never admit a mistake.
This new tax would have had a major effect on large landowners, and was opposed by the Conservative opposition, many of whom were large landowners themselves.
Asquith was not opposed by a Coalition candidate ; but the local Conservative Association eventually put up a candidate against him, who despite being refused the " Coupon " – the official endorsement given by Lloyd George and Bonar Law to Coalition candidates – defeated Asquith.
Chamberlain earned a reputation for provocative speeches during the period, especially during debate on the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which was opposed by the Whig Liberals Lord Hartington and George Goschen, as well as the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury, who argued that the Bill gave the Liberals an unfair electoral advantage and was prepared to block the Bill in the House of Lords unless it was accompanied by redistribution of seats into the suburbs.
One member of the Senate of Canada who opposed the merger continues to sit as the sole member of the " Progressive Conservative " caucus, and the conservative parties in most Canadian provinces still use the Progressive Conservative name.
On January 9, 2004, a group claiming to be loyal to the Progressive Conservative Party and opposed to the merger, which they characterized as an Alliance takeover, filed application with the Chief Electoral Officer to register a party called the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
He was a vocal opponent of Reform Judaism and similarly opposed early forms of Conservative Judaism.
On the other hand, when a right-wing Conservative member of Parliament, Edwin Linkomies, proposed in 1934 that Finland abandon parliamentarism in favour of a government led by the President and that the President be given an absolute veto power over the laws passed by the Parliament, Svinhufvud opposed his ideas.
During the 1930s the CPGB opposed the Conservative government's policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
In industry they now opposed strike action and supported the Joint Production Committees, which aimed to increase productivity, and supported the National Government that was led by Winston Churchill ( Conservative ) and Clement Attlee ( Labour ).
Like his father he was regarded as a staunch Conservative and bitterly opposed the Parliament Act 1911, which sought to curtail the powers of the House of Lords.
120 UK Labour Party MPs dissent and vote against it – double the number who opposed the previous such motion – but the UK Conservative Party backs the government's motion.
Both of these policies were flagship policies of New Labour and were opposed by large factions of the Conservative Party when introduced and indeed up until Portillo's announcement.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party had shifted dramatically to the left since the election in 1980 of Michael Foot as party leader, and as much as Mrs Thatcher's Conservative government was controversial, many people were just as opposed to the election of a Labour government led by Michael Foot.
As Leader of the Conservative Party, Law focused his attentions on two main areas ; tariff reform, which he supported, and Irish Home Rule, to which he was opposed.

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