Sentence examples for were conservative to from inspiring English sources

But Robert C. Lieber, the deputy mayor for economic development, said those forecasts were conservative, to reduce the odds of negative surprises.

The findings are the more noteworthy in view of certain limitations of the study that were conservative to the hypothesis, namely the relatively crude categorisation both of rural urban status (whole counties) and of contact levels (based on fewer job titles) as compared with our previous studies.

It is conservative to execute criminals.

It is conservative to set high education standards.

"It is conservative to insist on responsibility and on results.

"It's conservative to pay down the debt.

"At the beginning I wanted to be conservative, to please the prison officials," he said.

"It's conservative to believe that we should ban partial-birth abortions.

It's conservative to use those surpluses for Social Security, Medicare and paying down the debt".

We need be conservative, to make sure that the company will survive.

But many of the results are about constant time-delay, in practice, which is conservative to some extent.