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 also opposed requiring states with large Spanish-speaking populations to provide bilingual ballots.

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.

This was largely blamed on post-war austerity denting Labour's appeal to wealthier voters who felt they would be more prosperous under a Conservative government.

These left-wing Orthodox rabbis were joined by right-wing Reform rabbis who felt that Jewish law should not be entirely abandoned, to form the Conservative movement.

He subsequently guided through legislation abolishing the closed shop, and campaigned vigorously for Thatcher in the first ballot of the 1990 Conservative Party leadership contest, although he told her a day before she resigned that he felt she wasn't going to win and that John Major was better placed to defeat Michael Heseltine.

In modern Canadian politics, social conservatives often felt that they were being sidelined by officials in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Westerners reportedly felt betrayed by the federal Progressive Conservative Party ( PC ), seeing it as catering to Quebec and urban Ontario interests over theirs.

Most Conservatives felt strongly that the recent alternation between the main parties ought to be maintained and a Conservative Speaker chosen.

Later, members of the Reform movement who felt that it was moving away from tradition too quickly formed the Conservative movement.

His reason for doing so was that he felt that her Conservative colleagues would not tell her straight that she could not win a leadership contest.

Many felt that the 2007 fuel protests were politically motivated given that the main protesters were Conservative lorry drivers and farmers.

Gardiner was well known to Frost through the Conservative Party, was well-off, was felt to be beyond personal corruption.

The origins of the Liverpool Protestant Party lie in the increasing dissatisfaction with the Conservative and Unionist Party felt by many Orange Lodge members and other militant Protestants in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Observers felt that the Conservative Party, then in opposition, had no urgency in defining their position.

This balance was to cause tensions, particularly as the Diehard wing of the Conservative party felt unrepresented ( see below ).

MacDonald came under pressure not to merely appoint another Liberal, particularly as it was felt they would be overrepresented, and so instead appointed the Conservative Lord Irwin ( later Lord Halifax ).

This policy was widely felt to be a hangover from the previous Labour government and one that few Conservative governments would have implemented.

Lange said he only felt hostility from Kåre Willoch, leader of the Conservative Party, whose presence he considered to " fill the room with hate ;" Willoch had expressed little respect for Lange before the 1973 election, labeling him as a " mad-man " and agitator without visions.

Neither of them had any strong religious convictions, but Ruth felt it appropriate to adopt her husband ’ s religion and went through a Conservative conversion to Judaism.

This association was sympathetic to, but not officially affiliated with, the Conservative Baptist Association of America, an association organized because of what many felt was growing liberalism in the old Northern Baptist Convention.

The film was particularly well received in former mining communities, who felt it accurately reflected the suffering they faced because of the decline of their industry during the years of the Thatcher and Major Conservative governments.

The songs on the album dealt with a general sense of disenchantment he felt during the time, with the recent election of the Conservative government as well as tensions within his first marriage, which gave them an overall cynical tone.

Guergis was criticized by members of the Federal Conservative Party, who felt her actions hurt the party.

In modern Canadian politics, social conservatives often felt that they were being sidelined by officials in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

As the Conservative Government had a wafer thin majority he felt obliged to disclaim immediately.

Her connection to health care, an area in which the Conservatives felt weak, and her lack of interest in issues such as British membership of the European Union and asylum-seekers, meant that she was thought of as a member of the modernising wing of the Conservative Party.

Some Conservative theologians, like Seymour Siegel have stressed that the word, " Conservative ," must be understood in the way it is used in the British political system: that the laws and traditions have to be conserved or preserved, with changes allowed only when there is an overriding reason — almost always, an overriding ethical reason — to do so.

The view held by Conservative Judaism is that while God is real, the Torah is not the word of God in a literal sense.

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 ".

* Joe Clark-Pays a visit to Jean Chrétien ( Abbott ) to offer some advice, former Prime Minister to current Prime Minister ; the gag is that everything Joe says has a word that rhymes with " right ", since he is a Conservative while Chrétien is a Liberal.

In September 2012 UK Conservative Party Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell was reported using the word in an expletive-heavy tirade directed at police officers in Downing Street.

Wilson ’ s widow blamed the government for his death – when Conservative leader Austen Chamberlain called on the evening of his death to offer his condolences, he was by one account greeted by her with the word “ murderer ” and by another simply asked to leave by Wilson ’ s niece – and she was only persuaded to allow government representation at the funeral on the grounds that not to do so would be disrespectful to the King.

After the official 1912 merger of Liberal Unionists and Conservatives in Britain as the ' Conservative and Unionist Party ', the Scottish Unionist Party emerged as effectively the Conservative Party in Scotland, although some candidates still stood on a Liberal Unionist ticket because of the latent appeal of the word ' Liberal ' in Scotland.

In a July 9, 2007 interview on Business News Network, former Conservative Alberta Premier Ralph Klein criticized Harper and Flaherty for their mishandling of the income trust issue, and for not keeping their word on income trust taxation.

During the 2010 general election Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said this of Conservative claims to the word liberal " There is a gulf in values between myself and David Cameron.

The origin of the word Venstre in both party names is to be found in the fact that the major Conservative party in the 19th century was called Right, and Venstre ( Left ) was formed as an opposition party.

In a July 9, 2007 interview on Business News Network, former Conservative Alberta Premier Ralph Klein criticized PM Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty for their mishandling of the Income Trust issue and for not keeping their word on income trust taxation.

In doing so, the CJLS distinguished the Conservative approach to Jewish Law from the Orthodox approach, noting that Conservative Judaism regards Biblical law as only the beginning of a relationship rather than a final word, and that the Conservative movement regards it as its role and responsibility to revise Biblical law from time to time when such law conflicts with evolving concepts of morality.

When the Conservative government privatised the Trustee Savings Bank in 1985 he wrote a three-sentence letter to The Scotsman: " Bankrobbery is the word we use to describe the crime of stealing from a bank.