How to Use ultraconservative in a Sentence
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The same is true for the ultraconservative Fifth Circuit that this decision will be bumped up to.
—Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
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As part of his wheeling and dealing to secure the votes of a few staunch ultraconservative holdouts, McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold again to one member.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
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In Spain, the ultraconservative Vox party may be a kingmaker in next month’s snap elections.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
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The Trump voter One group that anti-Trump Republican leaders don’t appear to be making a play for is the party’s ultraconservative base.
—USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
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The speaker has reportedly given the Freedom Caucus, that ultraconservative faction, a third of the seats on the powerful Rules Committee, which controls which bills make it to the floor.
—CBS News, 8 Jan. 2023
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If the group proceeds, the move would be a significant step toward acceptance for crypto in a country that is ultraconservative with money.
—Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
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But Romney also gladly backed the ultraconservative policies that Trump pushed while in office.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
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Lawmakers must pass all 12 appropriations bills before April 30 to avoid one percent across-the-board cuts, a plan embraced by some in the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
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Boebert, a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, brought the impeachment articles to the floor as a privileged resolution to force a vote on the matter later this week.
—Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
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Jalili is an ultraconservative hawk known for his uncompromising dealings with the West.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 29 June 2024
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The development is the latest sign of a rightward shift in Shasta County following the election of an ultraconservative majority on the board.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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Some members in the powerful ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus also faulted the president’s push to raise the debt ceiling for more than a year, as the House bill originally prescribed.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
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Greene was initially a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, but in the summer of 2023 the group expelled her because of her pattern of attacking her conservative colleagues.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2024
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But in Idaho, a lobbyist for an ultraconservative political nonprofit stood up and spoke against it at a hearing.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2023
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Before becoming president in 2021, the ultraconservative had been the head of the judiciary.
—James Hider, NPR, 20 May 2024
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The party supports electoral politics in Pakistan — and is part of the ruling coalition — but has taken ultraconservative positions on issues such as women’s rights.
—Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
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Though the movement has been associated with ultraconservative politics, Chapman and Greenhalgh found many of the posts were aimed at gender and women’s issues.
—Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2023
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That decision led to a rift between him and more moderate allies, leaving him few potential coalition partners except among the far-right and ultraconservative parties.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
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The new government has moved quickly on several agenda items that would weaken the judiciary, entrench Israeli control of the West Bank and strengthen ultraconservative Jews.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
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Qatar follows an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism.
—Luis Andres Henao, ajc, 17 Dec. 2022
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Qatar, which like Saudi Arabia follows an ultraconservative version of Islam known as Wahhabism, has strict limits on the purchase and consumption of alcohol, though its sale has been permitted in hotel bars for years.
—Mariam Fam, ajc, 20 Nov. 2022
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Perhaps even more striking was the emergence of many ultraconservative candidates.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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If Abbott, Patrick and lawmakers win the midterms with ease, expect another session defined by an ultraconservative agenda.
—Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2022
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The Freedom Caucus is a group made up of ultraconservative lawmakers who have often been a roadblock to spending agreements, foreign aid and other urgent legislation.
—USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
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Spending deals have continued to come under fire by ultraconservative lawmakers, despite the risk of a government shutdown.
—Bailey Schulz, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024
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His government will now have to contend with a divided electorate, a fragile economic recovery and the rise of an ultraconservative Islamist movement that allied with his rivals during the election.
—Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
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Her ability to almost always make news has prompted constant speculation on what lies in the ultraconservative’s future.
—Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
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Qatar is governed by a hereditary emir who has absolute say over all governmental decisions and follows an ultraconservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism.
—Graham Dunbar, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
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Residents in Herat, once a liberal bastion of Afghanistan, have been particularly devastated as the Taliban have imposed their ultraconservative vision for the country over the past two years.
—Yaqoob Akbary Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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And a smaller bloc of ultraconservative members who have threatened to blockade the House floor if their priorities are not met has almost always voted against appropriations bills — in an average of 93 percent of cases.
—Carl Hulse, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
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