Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith ( a conservative Democratic lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association ) as a " dupe of communists " and a proponent of the " mingling of the races ", as played out on fliers including the phrase " Wake Up, White People " in the virtually all-white Democratic primaries.

As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953, he led the successful effort by the conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions, and was a major proponent of the foreign policy of non-interventionism.

He was conservative, pro-Russian, a proponent of regaining Poland's pre-1830 autonomy, and a champion of the emancipation of Jews.

Hunt was also a proponent of artillery practices that reflected his conservative nature.

The Czechoslovakian DNSAP led by Hans Knirsch together with the conservative German National Party ( Deutsche Nationalpartei, DNP ) became the main proponent of so-called " negativism ", the general tendency among the Sudeten Germans of refusing to accept the legitimation of the Czechoslovak state.

While he initially was a great and outspoken proponent of the liberal movement, he surprised many by switching sides and supporting the more conservative ( and eventually victorious ) Prussians during the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars and subsequent unification of Germany.

He is best known as a proponent of aristocracy, and in the early 20th century was a leading British conservative author.

The most effective organizer and proponent of conservative ideas was William F. Buckley, Jr. ( 1925 – 2008 ), the founder of National Review in 1955 and a highly visible writer and media personality.

A conservative Republican and a forceful advocate for earthquake safety, he was a leading proponent of the San Fernando Valley seceding from the rest of Los Angeles.

Alongside these liberal and left-wing efforts, a small group of conservative institutions were born in Ann Arbor.

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.

Taft thought that, despite probable defeat, the party had been preserved as " the defender of conservative government and conservative institutions.

The conservative opposition to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and especially the development of individualistic liberalism as a political theory and as institutionalized social practices sought to retain traditional social hierarchies, practices and institutions.

The very conservative city government prevented industrial investment — they didn't want the number of workers to grow — and the establishment of educational institutions — students were regarded as disorderly.

From 2008 to 2010 conservative groups, linked to religious institutions, managed to collect 150, 000 signatures to call a referendum to decline unions between same-sex couples.

According to Rudd, a " brutopia " is a place of " unchecked market forces ", incompatible with both " fairness " and " the so-called conservative institutions of family, community, church and country ".

Others were not particularly conservative politically, but resented what they saw as disrespect for American institutions.

Inspired by the Napoleonic organization of German and Italian principalities, the reforms of Karl August von Hardenberg and Count Stein were conservative, enacted to preserve aristocratic privilege while modernizing institutions.

In many ways Joe as a politician is the epitome of the historic mandate of Fine Gael-honourable, conservative, compassionate and committed to the democratic institutions of our State.

Only the conservative and ponderous nature of galactic institutions and the rivalry of other clans reluctant to see the Earth's races claimed by another have prevented this.

Another political text of his was published in Zurich in 1829, this time anonymously: Della riforma della Costituzione ticinese (" On the reform of the Ticino's constitution "), a call for reform, including an outline of how a liberal constitution should be drafted, and a strong criticism of the canton's restaurative and conservative institutions.

The Goode Family has been called a conservative show, and it has been suggested by the conservative site Newsbusters that the show's negative reviews were a consequence of liberal institutions having a poor sense of humor.

Institutions can be seen as " naturally " arising from, and conforming to, human nature — a fundamentally conservative view — or institutions can be seen as artificial, almost accidental, and in need of architectural redesign, informed by expert social analysis, to better serve human needs — a fundamentally progressive view.

That he does not identify any alternatives to the current institutions does reflect a conservative bias, which as has been stated before is a product of the specific time that he was writing in.

The primary objective of Giolittian politics was to govern from the center with slight and well controlled fluctuations, now in a conservative direction, then in a progressive one, trying to preserve the institutions and the existing social order.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship began in August 1990 as a reaction to the successful effort by conservatives to capture the denominational institutions of the Southern Baptist Convention after more than 10 years of public controversy between conservative and moderate / liberal factions of the Convention.

A compassionate conservative might see the social problems of the United States, such as health care or immigration, as issues that are better solved through cooperation with private companies, charities and religious institutions rather than directly through government departments.

While it maintained a sentimental and conservative respect for the symbolic institutions of the British monarchy, in practice Tory ministries allowed the King no more freedom than Whig ones.

The government had to face the extreme hostility of the conservative party on the one side, who had been opposed from the beginning to the new republican institutions.

As a statesman, Ganilau was regarded as a moderate conservative, upholding the traditions of the chiefly system but embracing modern political institutions.

After spending billions of dollars rescuing financial institutions only to see the economy spiral even deeper into crisis, both liberal and conservative economists and lawmakers pushed to redirect an economic stimulus bill to what they saw as the core problem: the housing market.

The Russian royal family had been the most autocratic and conservative rulers in Europe, and the Finnish people had experienced it by way of the four Finnish estates.

Other intellectuals in the environmental movement ( like Edward Goldsmith ) have used Gaia in the completely opposite way ; to stake a claim about how Gaia's focus on natural balance and resistance and resilience, should be emulated to design a conservative political system ( as explored in Alan Marshall's 2002 book ' The Unity of Nature ', ( Imperial College Press: London ).

This conflict became increasingly sharp in 1873, when Thiers himself was censured by the National Assembly as not being " sufficiently conservative " and resigned to make way for Marshal Patrice MacMahon as the new president.

Limbaugh's popularity paved the way for other conservative talk radio programming to become commonplace on the AM radio.

Lakoff further argues that one of the reasons liberals have had difficulty since the 1980s is that they have not been as aware of their own guiding metaphors, and have too often accepted conservative terminology framed in a way to promote the strict father metaphor.

In the same way, the sexually conservative Raeder who had a very strong dislike of homosexuality was one of the loudest who called for the resignation of the Army commander Werner von Fritsch when he learned that he had been accused of homosexuality, through Raeder qualified this that Fritsch should be reappointed Army commander if the charges were proven to be false.

Unlike other, more conservative Jedi, he values living in the moment as the best way to embrace the Force.

The phrase ' socially conservative evangelicals ' is not very exciting, but that's certainly the way to do it.

Ramsey is portrayed to be conservative, and he always makes politically incorrect statements supporting the use of force to quickly end problems ( but the way he puts it is always funny instead of malicious ).

While the Decius himself may have intended the edict as a way to reaffirm his conservative vision of the Pax Romana and to reassure Rome's citizens that the empire was still secure, it nevertheless sparked a " terrible crisis of authority as various Christian bishops and their flocks reacted to it in different ways.

The plenum condemned the conservative way of ruling, and claimed that from then on the economy should be governed by " objective laws ".

Later Rachel and John are caught dancing — an affront to the conservative Amish way of life.

Classical neoliberalism's respect for tradition, combined with its pragmatic approach to progress, endeared it to conservative movements around the world looking for a way to adapt to the changing nature of the modern world.

The large non-citizen community of Athens allowed ex-slave metics to become assimilated in a way not possible in more conservative and homogenised cities elsewhere.

These Germans saw farming as a way of life, and tended to be conservative, religious, frugal and hard working people.

He made light of this in the way of pointing to Alexander Ross, a very conservative Aristotelian who had attacked his own astronomical works, as a more suitable target for Webster.

Her parents, James Sullivan and Edith Lanchester, were considered Bohemian, and refused to legalise their union in any conventional way to satisfy the era's conservative society.

By January 1990, talk of the waning of conservative power and a possible socialist government had given way to the realization that, like the Lockheed affair of the mid-1970s, the Recruit scandal did not signal a significant change in who ruled Japan.

Kishi rationalized cooperation with Yoshida as a way of getting inside the main conservative tent so that he might transform it from within.

" In Letters to a Young Conservative, written as an introduction to conservative ideas for youth, D ' Souza argues that it is a blend of classical liberalism and ancient virtue, in particular, " the belief that there are moral standards in the universe and that living up to them is the best way to have a full and happy life.

While this outcome shocks the conservative social circles in which they mix, Fanny takes a broader minded view, pleased to see people she loves each finding happiness in their own way.

This way, the conservative aristocracy increased its power over economically developed provinces.

The casting of a female actor as the male lead in this feature makes this unspeakable homosexual subtext clear to certain members of the audience, in a socially acceptable way for the conservative mainstream audience of the early 1960's.

If you go down the list of what makes up a conservative, I'm there almost all the way.