Osborne is a much more conventional politician.

In Ulster, conventional politicians are an extinct breed.

"He has the support of a lot of people who genuinely have concluded that they no longer can believe in conventional politicians."

Burris is a conventional politician, guided principally by cautious self-interest.

He is a conventional politician, one guided far more by cautious self-interest than by ideological passion.

Junichiro Koizumi doesn't look or sound like a conventional Japanese politician.

"A conventional politician would pull his hair out, but we love it!"

"They all go back home sooner or later," he once said of conventional politicians.

Any conventional politician would respond reflexively: Yes, no and no.

Lloyd George was far from a conventional politician.