What's the difference between conservatism and hunkerism?
Conservatism
Definition:
(n.) The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.
Example Sentences:
(1) It won’t happen suddenly, but the most likely outcome for European social democracy is the one being secretly contemplated on the Labour backbenches: a fusion with liberalised conservatism.
(2) And then there is the rather less shocking conservatism of the Tories .
(3) You are showing that Conservatism is alive and well and is being lived out in people's lives every day.
(4) Everything else that used to be party of David Cameron's Conservatism, including decentralisation and the Big Society, has been marginalised.
(5) Chelsea , however, will not be too concerned if this match is added to the long list of games that is used to knock José Mourinho's ploys of conservatism and, ultimately, it is proven to be a valuable result.
(6) We have been convinced that this comprehensive classification serves as a very good guidance in selection the procedure of treatment, operation or conservatism, and in predicting prognosis.
(7) Their differences highlight Northern Ireland’s often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
(8) Some suggestions on the causes of the great variability of the HA1 chain and conservatism of the HA2 hemagglutinin chain are given.
(9) We all have our own unique DNA and our own life experiences.” But rather than run from the family name entirely, the former Florida governor is appealing instead to his party’s sense of noblesse oblige – crafting a new version of his brother’s somewhat faded brand of compassionate conservatism.
(10) Conservatism in surgical treatment and the roles of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other modalities are discussed.
(11) But my amusement should be a problem for movement conservatism.
(12) Since few viable cysts were found in patients over the age of 60 years, there is a strong case for conservatism in the treatment of elderly patient with an asymptomatic calcified hydatid cyst.
(13) Despite the vogue for conservatism, circumcision still has an important part to play in the management of troublesome foreskins in children.
(14) If, as seems probable, the Conservative party now scoops up most of the support that used to go to Farage, what impact will that have on the broader cause of Conservatism?
(15) Writing for Comment is Free , she charges Tony Blair with failing to see through Lords reform after his first term: “Labour’s reforming spirit was replaced by a small ‘c’ conservatism.” The Labour party and the shifting centre ground of politics in the UK | Letters Read more And she makes the case for basing an elected second chamber in Glasgow: “Where better than the biggest city of a nation that has just reaffirmed its commitment to keeping our country together?
(16) Now, the forces of liberalism are locking horns with the powers of conservatism once again; this time, according to the prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi, the outcome of the referendum will be "irreversible".
(17) This moderate rate of allelic evolution of the slightly lysine-rich histones contrasts with the complete conservatism found in the arginine-rich histones.
(18) The observed correlation between cross-reactivity of anti-transferrin monoclonal antibodies and the binding abilities of transferrins to the MOLT-3 cell receptors may be associated with the conservatism of the part of the transferrin molecule recognized by the cell receptor.
(19) Yet Wenger talked about it jarring with his principles to base his entire strategy around ploys of conservatism.
(20) The data favours the idea of high evolutional conservatism of neurochordins of higher vertebrate species.
Hunkerism
Definition:
(n.) Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress.
Example Sentences:
(1) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(2) She hunkered; she wouldn't ask him to turn up the heating.
(3) "It's all too easy to hunker down and try to ride out the storm but I think for our business that would be a mistake," Darroch said, referring to Sky's HD push.
(4) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(5) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(6) On Wednesday, his father Ray told the Guardian: “CCHQ’s supposedly impartial investigation, conducted not by an independent person but by a party ‘insider’, was always going to cast Clarke adrift and having done this was going to slam the doors of CCHQ shut and hunker down in an attempt to weather the storm.
(7) The success of the operation to remove melted nuclear fuel from the reactors – a process that will not start for 10 years – will depend on the hundreds of Tepco staff hunkered over computer screens in the plant's emergency control room.
(8) There is no comment on current trading, but it is clear that the carpet market is "challenging" and the suspicion remains that Carpetright's market share is under pressure, so the business is hunkering down for another tough year, with cost cutting and store closures in the pipeline.
(9) 12.06pm BST The Institute of Directors doesn't like the sound of British politicians blocking takeovers 'in the national interest'... Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) IoD: "misleading to present AstraZeneca as kind of UK champion...IoD doesn't support extension of any national interest test for takeovers" May 2, 2014 11.45am BST Pfizer and AstraZeneca will hunker down for a long tussle, predicts Mick Cooper, analyst at Edison Investment Research.
(10) With the eurogroup due to meet again next Monday, the financial markets are hunkering down for another delay - but still hopeful that a deal will eventually be agreed.
(11) Hardly anyone, that is, save their quarry: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his lieutenants, hunkered down in a white house just off the corner of Jiquilpan Boulevard, sensed a trap was about to spring shut.
(12) Arrive early or midweek, to hunker down by the fire and drink in these wood-panelled rooms.
(13) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
(14) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(15) "Where communities are already divided along ethnic lines, there is of course a tendency to hunker down," says Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, which researches issues of race and equality.
(16) As long as I've got somewhere to hunker down then I'm OK." The appeal of the house in the country, she says, is that "I can hide there."
(17) As the three party leaders hunkered down for final preparations ahead of the Sky News debate in Bristol, Lib Dem nerves were frayed when Vince Cable , the party's highly regarded Treasury spokesman, was put on the back foot for possibly the first time during a chancellors' debate on the BBC.
(18) This is an outbreak that needs tackling at source, and to change the course of the crisis, we mustn’t simply hunker down in developed nations.
(19) All its people can do when evening falls is to close the windows and hunker down around candles.
(20) They while away the day munching snacks, checking phones, posing artfully with cigarettes or hunkering down on folding stools.