Sentence examples for conservative up from inspiring English sources

Today, 68 percent of Republicans identify themselves as conservative, up from 60 percent in 2000.

About 6 in 10 Michigan voters described themselves as conservative, including about 3 in 10 who said they were very conservative — up somewhat from 2008.

For instance, it projects 48 percent of the voters to be evangelical Christians, up from 39 percent in 2008, and 38 percent of voters to be "very conservative," up from 24 percent.

But lately the ratio has been skewing: in last year's elections, 67 percent of those who voted Republican said they were conservative, up from 58 percent two years earlier and 48 percent ten years ago.

Nico has to be careful to not risk a DNF [non-finish] and that is why he may have been a bit conservative up to turn one.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a Republican conservative up for re-election, says the state's leading paper, The Courier-Journal of Louisville, is out to get him and his wife, Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao.

But the more conservative up-and-comers seem to have the upper hand for now, even in defeat.

HAVING overdosed on campaign events in New Hampshire, I decided to skip South Carolina's GOP debate and tea-party fest in Myrtle Beach this weekend and headed instead for the Palmetto state's conservative up-country.

Midland, a conservative, up-from-the-bootstraps town that has grown from 25,000 when he was a little boy to almost 100,000 today, mirrors Mr. Bush's optimism, his faith in business and his doubts about an activist government.

"I will do everything I can to elect conservatives up and down the ticket".

It's been a tough year for the Conservatives up north.