But what could the arch-conservative senators actually do about it?

For example, one family may be politically liberal while the other is arch-conservative.

More than a history, it is a checklist of arch-conservative talking points.

This is not an arch-conservative view, as some may all too readily assume.

Obama allies have fought often with the arch-conservative media personalities.

In response, Thailand’s army chief, an arch-conservative traditionalist, has said the military will not interfere with her government.

The arch-conservative faction he represents has thrived during the Bush administration.

The queen had arch-conservative positions and wanted a reactionary response in Portugal.

Today, even in arch-conservative Saudi Arabia, two-thirds of university students are women.

A television evangelist who is very arch-conservative and anti-communist.

To this extent the initiative is arch-conservative, in the truest sense of the word, not reform-oriented.

Hence Republican candidates typically focus on trying to outdo each other in appealing to the state’s arch-conservative party base.

Relentlessly arch-conservative, he would have the final nod on the appointment of Catholic bishops worldwide.

During her remaining years in the senate, arch-conservative Roland Hartley was governor.

He said instead of showing a diverse party, it gave prime time to arch-conservative Pat Buchanan.

Local discussion of national politics tends to fall within the spectrum of moderately conservative to arch-conservative thought.

Flaunted it in front of her well-positioned family, including her arch-conservative grandfather.

By the 1960s, even the arch-conservative Milton Friedman said this was what the Fed should have done.

It was a sore spot with some lawyers that, to purchase law books, they had to do business with the arch-conservative Thomson.

The arch-conservative Goldwater was a forerunner of the Tea Party.

The arch-conservative Fidesz party stormed Hungary's elections, taking more than 50 percent of the vote.

From 1976 until its suppression in 1982, the arch-conservative Muslim Brotherhood led an armed insurgency against the government.

And now, in a single, simple gesture, the arch-conservative Ratzinger finally shows us what it means to exercise reason in harmony with faith.

Antonin Scalia, the arch-conservative justice, led a blistering dissent.

It superficially resembles Spain, in its arch-conservative religiosity.

A translation in such an archconservative style can't possibly survive, right?

How do you like the word they're attaching to the archconservative faction, by the way?

This is a gain that the archconservative Vatican will not easily surrender.

Though Zari is a long shot in this archconservative area, she isn't completely off the radar.

It was an introduction and some kind of cryptic archconservative coronation.

His fees were paid by the archconservative Bradley Foundation.

Even archconservative Newt Gingrich published a book demanding action on global warming.

And they will face pressure not to budge from archconservative "Tea Party" movement voters who helped power their election win.

His stands today on immigration and foreign aid are in perfect sync with the archconservative positions of his past.

(The howl you just heard was from the archconservative Catholic League.)

Leading the protest was the archconservative Union Leader of Manchester, the state's largest newspaper.

Now the archconservative journalist campaigns by assailing "vulture capitalism."

It was probably inevitable that the famously archconservative Saint-Saens should come in for re-evaluation.

He was religious right, Christian conservative, archconservative, far right, mean-spirited, wing nut, and divisive.

It's not the one you think: an overbearing, archconservative vice president imposing his will and ideas on a less-seasoned president.

It is also filled with a citizenry so archconservative that most of them disapprove of the use of fire.

I suppose that makes me an archconservative throwback to the days of the democracies on Earth; Bozhe knows they didn't work.

The archconservative, ideological wing of the party finally coalesced, posing a threat to the more pragmatic and centrist elements.

Even archconservative Saudi Arabia is slowly evolving.

Were it otherwise, Congress would be in the control of archconservative Republicans, and the nomination would have sailed through without a hitch.

Mr. Pryor and Ms. Owens have met resistance for their archconservative views.

As an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, she has declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear.

So the archconservative Republican undertook a calculated campaign built around what he saw as Mr. Wright's ethical lapses.

But President Bush has ignored the message, resubmitting a group of archconservative, underqualified judicial nominees that Senate Democrats have already said are unacceptable.

An effort to wrest the 1964 Republican presidential nomination from the archconservative Senator Barry M. Goldwater fizzled.

He had tried to kill a former Army general and outspoken arch-conservative prior to shooting the president.

Kevin, a liberal, and Arnold, an arch-conservative, never agreed on anything.

Bevier was an arch-conservative, and nothing would be gained by arguing with him.

"You have to be a little delicate when you're on a court and your partner's an arch-conservative," Adler said.

These women in Dresden think that could happen if an arch-conservative takes over as Germany's head of state.

The sceptic is I suppose really the arch-conservative.

Petersen and Cuccinelli, an arch-conservative who is now Virginia’s attorney general, know each other well.

Perry, the narrative went, was the arch-conservative.

Karleigh, the arch-conservative, had already sniffed out the tone, if not the content, of Halliday's programme.

Is this sort of thinking "arch-conservative?"

This was Merkel the Arch-conservative, reaching out to the core conservative and Christian values of her party's traditional base.

I was a little stunned with the question, especially coming from a self-professed arch-conservative, good-government type such as John Cade.

Deng did not attend the congress, nor did his arch-conservative rival Chen Yun.

He was an arch-conservative, indeed, striving and planning for an imperium that would promote both the papacy and Christianity.

Harris, 25, is an arch-conservative who will proudly cast a vote for Sen. John McCain.

But with the chief posts pre-anointed by the Supreme Leader, the arch-conservative, militaristic tone of the next cabinet is ensured.

Its members come from every political affiliation from ultra-liberal to arch-conservative, and belong to both major parties and a number of third parties.

Other Tasmanians soon joined the fray, including well-known arch-conservative Dr John Freeman.

The Fellows chose him because Cowling's reactionary clique thought he would be an arch-conservative who would oppose the admission of women.

The 55-year-old arch-conservative took the oath of office before the king in a traditional ceremony at the yellow-domed national palace in Kuala Lumpur this morning.

Eldon was respected for his legal subtlety and for having enacted major legal decisions; as an arch-conservative, however, he was also widely hated.

It is not to be disguised that our governments are becoming downright democracies," complained the eloquent arch-conservative James Kent of New York. "

An arch-conservative within American politics, Palin stressed her belief in individual freedom and minimal government interference, while expressing concerns about China's rise as a major world power.

Mr Bolton, an arch-conservative who loathed what he saw as the UN’s efforts to constrain America, unsurprisingly gets a rough ride in this book.

Dubai’s neighbors, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, even to some extent arch-conservative Saudi Arabia, are paying it the compliment of imitation.

Yes, he was an archconservative who seemed to care a lot more about liturgical orthodoxy than the plight of the church's progressives.

Archconservative, and as you and others will point out shortly, that carries a tradeoff of serious damage to the blood supply.

But many Senate Democrats see Roberts as the archconservative who has now revealed his true colors in his death penalty, abortion and global warming decisions.

As a politician, Cancrin was an archconservative who vociferated against the construction of railways and the emancipation of the serfs.

On March 12, after a magazine described the film as "anti-Japan," conservative lawmakers demanded a special screening, following which one prominent archconservative criticized its "ideological message."

Or presidential aide Marc Thiessen: A "small-government archconservative" who Latimer says bragged about ordering up every free medical test he could get at the Naval hospital in Bethesda.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, an archconservative who has become a lightning rod for many of county government's political controversies, resigned Thursday to run for Arizona attorney general this fall.

And just like the vice president, the new pope is a Jurassic archconservative who disdains the "if it feels good do it" culture and the revolutionary trends toward diversity and cultural openness since the 60's.

The president, an archconservative who is widely popular here for waging war on Marxist rebels, lost a national referendum last month on measures that would have given him more control over state spending, cutting $7 billion in seven years.

He was frequently depicted as an archconservative who opposed many of the changes of Pope John XXIII and who tried to block progressive initiatives during the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65.

The idiosyncratic Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí is portrayed as a religious archconservative who dreamed of unifying the restoration of Catalan culture with the establishment of Barcelona as the center of Christendom.

A12 OBITUARIES A29 Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage A former United States representative from Idaho, an archconservative who ridiculed the Endangered Species Act and called for disbanding large parts of the federal government, she was 68.

Former Representative Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage of Idaho, an archconservative who ridiculed the Endangered Species Act and the protection of salmon in her own state and called for disbanding large parts of the federal government, died on Monday in a car accident in Nevada.

Only in New York could an archconservative who worked for Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and opposes abortion and gun control - making him as unlikely a New York reformer as one can conjure up - emerge as the state's latest apostle of democracy.

The white smoke yesterday signaled that the Vatican thinks what it needs to bring it into modernity is the oldest pope since the 18th century: Joseph Ratzinger, a 78-year-old hidebound archconservative who ran the office that used to be called the Inquisition and who once belonged to Hitler Youth.

Rodgers refused to consider such an innovation, bringing Sondheim to recognize that in the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, it was Hammerstein that was the pathbreaker, because Rodgers was an "archconservative" whose innovations were restricted to superficial gimmicks (for example, no string instruments in No Strings).