Sentence examples for conservative grip from inspiring English sources
Is the conservative grip on the Senate confirmation process weakening, or are the conservative cops asleep on the beat?
Now the paranoids may well be the secularists themselves, horrified by the new conservative grip on the culture.
Indeed, love of country, its traditions and great leaders has emerged as a central theme in the street protests, as many left-leaning critics of the war try to wrestle patriotism from its traditional conservative grip.
It is a technique employed by the extreme right to dehumanise us, to turn others against us in an attempt to maintain the arch-conservative grip on this country.
Now, with a religious hardliner in the presidency, the conservatives' grip on all levels of power seems unshakeable.Thus the prospects look bleak for any sort of breakthrough in the issue that most interests the outside world Iran's apparent attempts to learn the techniques for making nuclear bombs, under the cover of a civilian nuclear-power programme.
This now looks likely to go into reverse under Mr Ahmadinejad.Now, with a religious hardliner in the presidency, the conservatives' grip on all levels of power seems unshakeableMr Khatami's attempts at advancing liberalisation were constantly overruled by Ayatollah Khamenei and the Council of Guardians, a hardline group of clerics and Islamic jurists.
He emerged from a brief stint in an Allied prison to become a prime minister and leader of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party LDPP), whose grip on power has only twice been dislodged.The LDP came to power with America's connivance.
While those who ran under the moderate banner support Mr. Khatami on some issues, many are known to be hesitant to move too quickly to loosen the conservative clergy's grip on matters dealing with the courts and the country's many competing security forces.
A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.
In the Tory West Oxfordshire, the Conservatives have a grip on 40 of the 49 seats; in Doncaster, Labour holds 50 of the 63 places on the council.
Peter Lougheed, a former premier who inaugurated the Conservatives' 36-year grip on the province, backed the new royalties and called for a rethink of the pace of development.However, the new plan is less tough than it looks, according to Pedro van Meurs, who advises governments on royalty regimes.
