Sentence examples for conservative if it from inspiring English sources

Is government spending — excluding inflation — liberal or conservative if it doubles since 1980?

Under Gus Poyet, Sunderland's approach couldn't have been more conservative if it was wearing full Bullingdon boy regalia and braying about the peasantry at a club social in a posh restaurant.

In other words, a mathematical theory M is conservative if it is consistent with every consistent theory about the physical world B*.

We call a REIT conservative if it meets these three criteria: price/FFO no more than 14, yield at least 6%, debt no more than two-thirds of stockholders' equity.

A mathematical theory is conservative if it is consistent with every internally consistent theory about the physical world, where such theories do not involve any reference to, nor quantification over, mathematical objects, such as sets, functions, numbers etc. (Field 1989, p. 58).

The City would be more circumspect about openly bankrolling the Conservatives if it thought there was a possibility that Labour might win the next election.

Or, in the case of Terri Schiavo, would keeping her alive been less heroic to conservatives if it weren't an insurance company paying for her care?

But it would deserve a lot more attention, and get taken just a bit more seriously, if its scope were not quite so obviously conservative, and if it showed itself just as keen to revive forgotten works by Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens, say, as it has been to resuscitate the likes of York Bowen and Joseph Holbrooke.

One of the Church of England's most distinguished theological training colleges has been placed on notice that it must improve its academic standards and not succumb to narrow conservative evangelicalism if it is to remain part of Oxford University.

"I don't know if he's become more conservative or if it's just good politics.

What's the good in having a Conservative government if it can't step away from Europe, they ask?