41.   Rank-and-file Republicans may be bigger backers of Israel because of their Christian conservative wing, but the Democratic Party has a strong, historic tie to Israel.

42.   Republicans also remained concerned about keeping their conservative wing from opposing any deal.

43.   Rights organizations and Iranian dissident groups say the Bahais are fiercely persecuted by the more conservative wings of the Iranian judiciary and by security forces.

44.   Republican politicians embraced by the social conservative wing of the party, meanwhile, too often dwelled in the past to their peril, analysts say.

45.   She supports abortion rights but generally votes with the conservative wing of the party.

46.   That statement helped crystallize the concern about Gramm that already was growing within the conservative wing of the party, Christian-right activists said.

47.   The conservative wing of the Republican Party, led by Newt Gingrich, then the House Republican whip, became apoplectic.

48.   The Conservative wing would be expected to side with the Orthodox, which accepts that the Holy Scriptures consider homosexuality to be an abomination.

49.   The conservative wing has had mixed success in Kansas in recent years.

50.   The disturbing message is that Bush apparently feels he owes the conservative wing of the Republican Party almost nothing.