"conservative" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At that time, the fear of pan-Islamic upheaval gnawed at secular governments and conservative monarchies across the region.
- The leading conservative monarchy was Saudi Arabia, with Jordan (and initially, Iraq) reluctantly falling in the same but competing camp.
- A9 Saudis to Hold First Elections Saudi Arabia announced that the conservative monarchy would hold its first elections, to create local councils.
- Defeat in the Crimean War (1854-56) persuaded the conservative monarchy that it could not aspire to the status of a great power without bridging the gap between the state and society.
- It also defends the traditional principles of a conservative monarchy based in Roman Catholic values and in the absolute power of the king, against the Enlightenment values.
- The Saudis and the Yemenis have also had an interdependent relationship, but an often tense one stemming from the conservative Saudi monarchy's fear of foreign subversion.
- The most conservative European monarchy, the Russian Empire, was replaced by the communist Soviet Union.
- All of those steps are jarring for a rapidly developing but still very conservative Muslim monarchy that did not abolish slavery until 1962.
- Among Arab officials, the Iranian missile attack was seen as a reminder that Teheran will continue to threaten the conservative monarchies of the gulf and must be dealt with firmly.
- Previous Maneuvering Discreet This conservative Muslim monarchy has been willing to use its power before, most publicly in the 1973 oil embargo to protest Western support for Israel.
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