Hu's behavior confirms his conservatism.

Was it traditional fiscal conservativism?

Conservatism in revolutionary times is an inadequate option.

Few concepts are as elastic as that of Conservatism.''

Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador and Peru are examples of nations where this did not occur.

The philosopher Panajotis Kondylis identified the root of the Conservative dilemma.

Conservatism has been the major political force in France since the second world war.

Its members share Ahmedinejad s social conservatism and aversion to diplomatic compromise on the nuclear issue.

At the other end, conservatism in many European countries has historically veered too close for comfort to right wing extremism.

In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo Saxon conservatives.

Non committal multiculturalism has long kept the conservatism of Dutch Moroccans and Dutch Turks hidden from the public eye.

The older generations see such caution as prudence, and that conservatism is reflected in China s current leaders.

As a concrete historical phenomenon accompanied by an ideology with sharp contours, Kondylis wrote, Conservatism was dead and buried.

But this historical Conservatism cannot survive in the age of globalization, because national conservative thinking is anachronistic.

As far as drivers are concerned, it s hard to imagine exactly what kind of work would have to be done to overcome our long standing Russian conservatism.

However, some are concerned about what effect Koike's conservatism might have on her goals of establishing a more equal society.

In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo Saxon conservatives.

In Austria, Germany, Portugal and Spain, conservatism was transformed into and incorporated into fascism or the far right.

Yet this must not mean that modern Conservatism ends up surrendering its central belief that man is not absolute.

Something had to give, and, to Putin s credit, it was not fiscal conservatism.

The country s new leaders speak earnestly of deepening reforms and rebalancing the economy, but they remain cautious, gradualist, and conservative by inclination.

Obama ran right into a perfect storm of the worst aspects of American democracy red state provincialism and ignorance, fearful conservatism, Republican Party obstructionism and even some Democratic Party dissidence.

At one end of its spectrum of meanings, conservatism has (over the last two decades) come to be viewed as promoting too much of a civic life of greed and grab.

At one end of its spectrum of meanings, conservatism has (over the last two decades) come to be viewed as promoting too much of a civic life of greed and grab. At the other end, conservatism in many European countries has historically veered too close for comfort to right wing extremism.

Bush did present himself as a conservative... conservatism is hostile, for reasons ranging from the abstract and philosophical to the concrete and practical, to high spending and high taxing....

Still others interpreted compassionate conservatism, as the commentator Andrew Sullivan put it, as a smokescreen...necessary for any vaguely successful retrenchment of government power in an insatiable entitlement state.

In his 2000 presidential bid, George W. Bush famously promised compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy, but governed very differently, as when he decided to invade Iraq.

In the face of terrorism, there is little room for political debate on the use of state power to maintain order and ensure individuals' security. But whereas Conservatism sought to de couple the state's enforcement of social order from explicit welfare guarantees, today's Conservatives argue for larger farm subsidies.

It ardently championed global fiscal stimulus on the order of 2 of world GNP a position that is all the more remarkable in view of its traditional conservatism on all fiscal matters.

But whereas Conservatism sought to de couple the state's enforcement of social order from explicit welfare guarantees, today's Conservatives argue for larger farm subsidies.

His conservative and nationalist credentials sustained his popularity on the right, while his new security strategy including full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip attracted supporters from the left.

In France, conservatism was so entrenched on both the left and the right that both missed the movement s meaning and could only fall back on stereotyped revolutionary interpretations.

But democratic Conservatism as a world view, as a conceptual framework, and as a way of behaving whether in power or as a form of political opposition is increasingly difficult to articulate.