1.  Taken in its own terms, the conservative position is unanswerable.

2.  We now think of an insistence on grammatical correctness as a conservative position.

3.  Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.

4.  Bill Fazio is taking the more conservative position on issues.

5.  Both Fong and Issa are foes of high taxes and both take conservative positions on most issues, but Issa does so less equivocally.

6.  A paraplegic as the result of an automobile accident, he blends staunchly conservative positions on issues with a relaxed style and self-deprecating wit.

7.  But a poll published on Sunday by The Detroit News put the two, who espouse similar conservative positions, in a virtual tie.

8.  But others say that it is an open question whether that would be allowed and that Seagram seems to have decided to take a relatively conservative position.

9.  But they also seemed, at times, to be trying to lock him into conservative positions before he proceeded to a general election contest.