Sentences with phrase «basic conservative principles»

But it has been shocking to see some conservatives perform verbal gymnastics to support a candidate who has questionable character and vacillates on basic conservative principles.

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My last essay ended by noting that conservatives are told by many of their leading politicians and pundits that America's fundamental problem is that too many of their fellow citizens no longer understand its basic principles, of which liberty has pride of place.
The problem is that a basic tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.
He is part of a wider movement of conservative Christians who are choosing to live their lives on the edge of society, unplugged from civilization as much as they can, living under basic biblical principles.
The basic principle of being a Conservative is a belief in sound money.
«It was an affront to all the basic principles of free trade, of human decency and of international responsibility,» said Conservative MEP Charles Tannock.
These new principles were presented in the Tamworth Manifesto of 1834, which historians regard as the basic statement of the beliefs of the new Conservative Party.
«It is to be hoped that he has not renounced this basic common sense demand - so central to the Lib Dems» principles - in order to join the Conservatives in government.
The inability to understand basic economic principles by conservative deniers underlies their desire to have it both ways.
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