Despite his conservative orientation, he was firmly committed to civil rights.
Tsinghua is one of China's most prestigious universities and it is known for its politically conservative orientation.
At the moment, the Republican control of Congress and the conservative orientation of the today's G.O.P. give Trump a nearly impregnable wall of defense against impeachment.
Mrs. Thomas acknowledged, however, that her search was likely to generate more interest among Republicans, because of the foundation's conservative orientation.
By the early 21st century, however, as the Supreme Court assumed a more conservative orientation, it shifted its focus away from the expansion of minority rights.
The reason for the abrupt disappearance is that the institute receives money from the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation, groups whose conservative orientation is so pronounced that their names are anathema to many environmental groups.
John L. Allen Jr., the author of "Opus Dei," a study of the organization, said that Opus Dei gave the Heights a mood and a conservative orientation, not a hidden recruitment agenda.
Some liberal critics of the program claimed that Colmes was actually a political moderate and that Fox's description of him as a "hard-hitting liberal" was merely a reflection of the channel's conservative orientation.
According to Conservapedia.com, an online encyclopedia with a conservative orientation, Mr. Coase's "extraordinary insight was that the free market always reaches the most efficient level of productive activity, in the absence of transaction costs".
It should be noted that only the conservative orientation of the Austrian Welfare State revealed its strength: Over the course of the financial crisis, the use of short-time working arrangements was remarkably successful.
