Sentences with phrase «conservative than surprising»

It won't blow you away, and comes across as more conservative than surprising, so expect a steady - but - not - large uptick in short - term sales.

Not exact matches

Stelmach's leadership win came as a surprise considering his campaign for the PC leadership was less prominent than that of party insider Jim Dinning and the socially conservative Ted Morton.

Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give more than welfare - state liberals.

I am, to my own continuing surprise, philosophically more conservative than the vast majority of my academic peers.

I was surprised and delighted that the book was a success with conservatives, but I hope their reaction amounted to more than just recognizing someone else who believes that God is real, end of story.

Momentum shifted toward non-Republicans like Ron Paul and Barack Obama — somewhat surprising for a Christian generation that is, by every statistical measure, more morally conservative than its parents».

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

The Conservative Party looks set to do even better than the surprising exit polls predicted, but the real glory in this election lies with the small parties.

A highly knowledgeable Senate insider said yesterday that «far more of the [GOP] members are in play than anyone realizes, including some surprising names from conservative upstate areas.»

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

«What surprised me was that all of my children, a couple of whom are more conservative than I am, basically said, «Why do you have a problem with supporting gay marriage?»»

The replacements for Paterson, Barker, Fallon and Hague may yet surprise us, but as it stands the Conservative Party are set to go into the next election with a very different position on the environment than the «vote blue, go green» of 2010.

And he was not surprised the survey showed twice as many would prefer a future coalition with Labour than the Conservatives.

The commentariat has expressed surprise that there has been more dissent amongst Conservatives over the coalition than amongst Lib Dems.

«Far more of the [GOP] members are in play than anyone realizes, including some surprising names from conservative upstate areas,» a «highly knowledgeable Senate insider» told Dicker.

The Conservatives continue to score consistently above 40 %, and therefore significantly more than the 37 % they won on election day; but the Lib Dems have lost half their support since May 6 (though I should not be surprised if they enjoy a conference bounce later this week).

As Simon said: «This still feels more like a Conservative place than a Labour place, but if it did change hands I wouldn't be that surprised».

Moreover, few would be surprised with Westerman and his colleagues» findings that the «digital masters» are appreciably more productive and profitable than their more conservative counterparts (Westerman et al., 2014).

Tried and true works in the ES's conservative segment, apparently, because sales are still quite healthy — many would be surprised to learn that the ES was Lexus's strongest selling car nameplate last month (and most other months, for that matter), racking up more than 60,000 annual sales fairly consistently.

I am somewhat surprised that the students were more «conservative» than me about blogging in general and this site in particular.

That's the surprise finding of a study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change last month, which analysed and identified the key themes in more than 16,000 publications about climate change by conservative organisations.