11.  Churches are also increasingly resisting its repugnant contention that tax cuts, school vouchers and conservative positions generally are a Christian philosophy.

12.  Clinton bristled at a suggestion he is adopting conservative positions on welfare reform, tax cuts and other issues because it is an election year.

13.  Democrats have challenged Ashcroft for his socially conservative positions on such issues as abortion and school desegregation.

14.  Even before taking office Bush has made a number of policy decisions, and on not one of them has he deviated an inch from a knee-jerk conservative position.

15.  Even those who disagree with his conservative positions on such issues as birth control and abortion cannot help being impressed.

16.  For starters, his positions themselves hold less hope for bipartisan compromise than his words, which may be fig leaves covering very conservative ideological positions.

17.  Gramm does have a talent for offering conservative positions in clear, colorful terms.

18.  He said that she also relished her role as a contrarian in the family, consistently taking the most conservative political positions.

19.  His ideas were also attacked by Gramm, who is staking out a more conservative position in his race against Dole for the Republican presidential nomination.

20.  In ignoring the advice of many friends and deciding to run for president, Smith willingly took on a long-shot crusade partly to advance his conservative positions.