How to Use ultraconservative in a Sentence

ultraconservative

adjective
  • 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
  • Among those were some of the ultraconservative members who have defied Johnson's directives in the past.
    — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In Spain, the ultraconservative Vox party may be a kingmaker in next month’s snap elections.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • Jalili is an ultraconservative hawk known for his uncompromising dealings with the West.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 29 June 2024
  • Perhaps even more striking was the emergence of many ultraconservative candidates.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Which in turn gives those Arabs and Western leaders leverage to prevent any attempt to impose an ultraconservative religious state.
    — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Qatar follows an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism.
    — Luis Andres Henao, ajc, 17 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Skakel is the fifth of seven children born to Rushton and Anne Skakel, who were fabulously wealthy and ultraconservative Catholics.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
  • If Abbott, Patrick and lawmakers win the midterms with ease, expect another session defined by an ultraconservative agenda.
    — Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The Senate bill calls for a temporary ban, but members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus have pushed back and called for the ban to be permanent.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Before becoming president in 2021, the ultraconservative had been the head of the judiciary.
    — James Hider, NPR, 20 May 2024
  • 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
  • But frustrations were already brewing with House Republicans, from the ultraconservative to more moderate members, over the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown.
    — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Since taking office on March 11, ultraconservative Kast has pledged to cut roughly $6 billion in public spending over 18 months in an effort to improve the country’s fiscal accounts.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • The conservative zealots are also winning the blessing of friendly priests, including the ultraconservative Archpriest Dmitri Smirnov, who claimed that the film was created to mock Russian saints.
    — Alexander Baunov, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • But that clashes with far-right members who demand all or nothing, hoping Republicans can pass red-meat bills to put the onus on the Senate to either send President Biden their ultraconservative bills or own a shutdown.
    — Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • 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
  • Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, by contrast, have pledged to vote against any funding package that includes an extension of ACA tax credits.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In 2018, Saudi Arabia issues its first drivers licenses to 10 women as the first step that month by the ultraconservative kingdom in lifting the world's only ban on women driving.
    — ABC News, 18 May 2026

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