Sentences with phrase «conservative style of»

Klarman has used his conservative style of value investing to average returns of around 20 % a year; long - term numbers similar to investing greats Warren Buffett and Shelby Davis.

The conservative style of the neckline and the midi length of the dress call for a classy and sophisticated moment while the sweet open back screams fun and sexy... and if you ask me, these two combinations are «a winner» in my book!

Manchester United's conservative style of play this season has been pilloried from all angles, but one stat that's emerged in the last 24 hours shows that what United may lack in attacking quantity they make up for in quality.

Like King Henry said, sacrifices have to be made but it remains to be seen whether Wenger will agree and go for a more conservative style of play.

Ferguson adds in the new edition, extracts of which were published on Tuesday, that Moyes went against United's traditions by adopting a more conservative style of playing.

Subaru's redesigned Legacy leans toward the conservative styling of succesful cars in the segment.

For the 1998 model year, the Ford Motor Company restyled the Crown Victoria, eliminating the «aero» look that the first generation Crown Victoria had from 1992 to 1997; adopting the more conservative styling of the Mercury Grand Marquis.

Not exact matches

Conservative in almost every sense of the word, the billionaire Singer, now 73, insists on hedging all his investments to reduce the risk of loss, and prizes «manual efforts» — in other words, old - fashioned elbow grease — as the defining characteristic of his investment style.

Ryan Williams, former deputy national press secretary for Romney's presidential campaign and senior vice president of communications at FP1 Strategies, said he believed some conservative pundits were «just drawn to Trump's style more than policies.»

He manufactured a hostile takeover of the rump Progressive Conservatives, a merger in which his more radical, more muscular style of politics cloaked itself in a brand name that however tarnished was at least familiar and historic.

I started investing through my previous employer's 401K plan in 1995, when my «investing style» pretty much consisted of ignoring my account and letting the money go into the default investment, which was the most conservative option possible.

It's a mark of Harper's governing style that even at this level of functional microcosm, he maintains a certain balance among the Conservative movement's constituent factions.

Newshounds are here because Kenney, the self - styled conviction conservative, is expected to soon announce he's running to be leader of the Alberta PCs.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D - CA) said on Thursday that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is not going to silence her after NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre name - checked her during his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) address, saying Harris is a member of the «new wave of European - style socialists» that has «infested» the Democrats.

Leaders of the previous PC regime, Alison Redford and Jim Prentice, styled themselves as Progressive Conservatives, their actions rarely matched their words.

It didn't take Oliver long to get the hang of the Harper government's style — shaping reality according to Conservative ideology, with a careless disregard for the facts.

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

The fact that different genders, styles of dress and religious beliefs are portrayed equally in Team Muhafiz is a significant statement in Pakistan, where a conservative interpretation of Sunni Islam is the norm.

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

And Podhoretz is not alone: I know from personal experience that many Jewish neocons, however bemused they may be by styles of evangelical piety» a bemusement, I might add, shared by a number of non «evangelical Christians» still have no problem counting Christian conservatives as staunch cultural and political allies.

A whole new generation of self - styled conservatives want little or nothing to do with either.

Like all of today's Limbaugh - style conservatives, Jesus would certainly say, «I'm happy with my health care the way it is!

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

This much is now clear: a majority of Americans who identify with the Tea Party are old - style Christian conservatives in new clothing: they now quote the Declaration of Independence more than the Bible (although some do both), and attend rallies led by Glenn Beck instead of Pat Robertson.

In putting such faith in political creeds, mission statements, and manifestos — in what he called «the ideological style of politics» — Oakeshott thought that modern conservatives had become nearly as «rationalistic» as modern progressives.

None of these communities look exactly the same --(some are more conservative / progressive than others and worship styles vary)-- but that's exactly why they are thriving.

At the same time, many old - style conservative evangelicals have warned that postliberal theology is but the latest manifestation of a deadly neo-orthodoxy, which is all the more pernicious for its seeming affinity with conservative aims.

Or will it yield the same kind of mechanistic style that has made conservative jurisprudence so morally empty — and so incapable of facing the challenges raised in litigation by the left?

They can not join with those vociferous persons, often associated with conservative religious groups, who seek to go back to what are often styled «the good old days»: on the other hand, they do not have much sympathy for the wildly radical people who assume that there must be a total destruction of our inheritance, in the naive confidence that surely «something» will then appear that is entirely good and sound and right.

Now that he can no longer write for politically conservative magazines, I hope that he will not find liberal substitutes for his slime - and - condemn style of journalism.

In his post on the midterm elections and their discontents, Jody Bottum argues that conservatives haven't made support for the Iraq War a defining test of one's conservatism, in the way that opposition to the war ¯ and indeed, war of almost any kind ¯ has become an abortion - style....

The Conservative assumption was that as the immigrant population died out, European - style Orthodoxy would slowly disappear, a victim of upward social and economic mobility, acculturation, and Americanization, and that Conservative Judaism would fill the resulting vacuum.

The teams are in the middle of a light recruiting region, which means their best paths to success are through styles of football that are not aesthetically pleasing: plodding running games, conservative play - calling, and occasionally dazzling punts.

He is Evel Knievl, self - styled conservative wildman — here soaring over the fountains of a Las Vegas hotel — who intends to jump the Grand Canyon on a motorcycle

They look COZY but extremely impractical (the only outfit I can see these functioning with would be a tight long sleeve shirt, with a vest / sleeveless coat over it, and these on top...) Call me conservative (I really am NOT;) but these don't strike my fancy at all, and I am loving almost all of the sweater dresses, long tunics, jeggings, and legwarmer styles that are hot for fall and winter..

He acquired an unfair reputation for a conservative playing style, with one cruel nickname of «The Crab» mocking his supposed preference for sideways passes.

The Bush presidency saw the conservative coalition and the Republican Party becoming increasingly restless — about federal expansion and big - government, about anti-libertarian policies and sentiments and about the Iraq war and the aggressive style of the Bush administration.

«Beyond infrastructure», Krauthammer dictates, «the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European - style universal entitlements but a firm safety net... those too young or too old, too mentally or physically impaired, to provide for themselves.»

Of course, many Conservatives who did not bend to D'Amato's Pelosi - style pressure will be there, but they'll be cheerfully voting for their candidate with a clear conscience.

A California - style wave of municipal bankruptcies may be appealing to some conservatives, if only because it sounds like appropriate punishment for fiscal irresponsibility.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

In ancient times, the death of a leader in battle would mean slavery or worse for the defeated side; likewise, in a presidential - style election battle if Cameron were caught with his trousers down, or suffered a catastrophic failure in authority, there are 303 Conservative MPs whose careers depend on him.

The Conservative party has lost potentially thousands of pounds after a wealthy backer withdrew his support in protest at David Cameron's «arrogant» old Etonian style of leadership.

The war of words among senior Conservatives over Britain's relationship with Europe has intensified, as David Cameron's attempt to make an upbeat case for staying in the European Union — styling himself the leader of «Project Fact» — was dismissed by Boris Johnson as «baloney».

The Conservatives» current style is hinged on being relatively unremarkable and therefore directing all negative press coverage away from themselves back onto Labour, who currently have no end of shortcomings for journalists to pore over.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said the governor has reverted to the «Cuomo style» of name calling and portraying people who disagree with him as extremists.

Dismissing David Cameron's Conservative party manifesto as one «of style over substance», Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said he was determined to offer «something different» to the British people.

We Conservatives should be quite happy, as this could usher in another Eighties - style decade of a split Left, which could give us three terms in government (if we don't screw up.

But not everyone thinks it's the best solution to upstate's continued lagging economy.EJ McMahon, President of the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, says the building of resort style casinos won't generate as many jobs as some other industries, like opening up the state's vast shale resources to hydro fracking.