Sentence examples for conservative and large from inspiring English sources
Since the fracture strength of brittle materials depends on the size and distribution of flaws as well as the duration of loading, conventional design approaches are generally very conservative and large safety factors are often used.
Within Europe, I think gay marriage was institutionalised first in the Netherlands, while Scandinavian countries stuck with civil unions for a while, in large measure because the Netherlands is more conservative, and large segments of Dutch society still accord a semi-sacralised premium to the word "marriage" which doesn't obtain so strongly in Scandinavia.
Deviations were always conservative and largest for materials with high fatigue strength scatter.
Support for the Lib Dems has hardened at just over 20%, despite aggressive attempts by Michael Howard's Conservatives and large parts of the press to push the Lib Dems back.
They are made up of vast rural and relatively conservative areas and large, more liberal cities.
General Clark's aides say their strategy is to focus on the states with generally conservative populations and large proportions of military families who may be attracted by his Army career.
It says that current emission targets are simply way too conservative: "By and large, national targets are not derived from an assessment of what needs to be done to meet the 2C target".
FDR in Table 1) from MBIS and regular t-test methods are larger than the preset q-values, while SAM methods are usually too conservative and need large q-values to get a reasonable proportion of true positives.
In a broad diversity of churches of many denominations, conservative and liberal, large and small, ministers emphasized the theme of forgiveness, saying no one is free of sin, and that only God has the power to judge, to forgive and to redeem.
Conservatives by and large have picked stupid and expensive as the way to go.
But it is conservatives, by and large, who provided the political support for these two changes.
