Religious enthusiasm made the movement subversive in a deep sense — adherents believed they had a divine obligation to build settlements and considered the authority of Israel's democratic government conditional on its acceptance of what they declared to be God's politics.
William Powers, the Republican state chairman in New York, opposed the plan and tried to make its adoption conditional on Democratic agreement.
It would help to solve the border dispute with Ethiopia and make the funding conditional on true democratic reform and the respect of human rights.
Along the same line, some benefits disbursed by a democratic state might be made conditional on specified forms of responsible choice.
(The conditional is a condition.
If the international community, and the United States in particular, wishes to ensure a stable and democratic Egypt, they should make their loans conditional on substantive economic reform that benefits the Egyptian people.
Consequently, aid from the US is made conditional upon the recipients introducing liberal democratic reforms under the doctrine of the Washington Consensus.
Donations can also be conditional, such as donations to whoever wins the Democratic or Republican primary.
"Everything is shoved down the road so, and it was so conditional," said Richard W. Murphy, a onetime assistant secretary or state for the Middle East who served Democratic and Republican administrations.
Brazil's social democratic government has successfully reduced poverty with the so-called "Bolsa Família" payment or "family allowance" – effectively child benefit which is conditional on educational attendance.
