Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush strove to remake the Court in a conservative mold, with partial success.

When he became president, Mr. Bush lavished attention on Democrats, just as his aides were hatching plans to remake the government in a conservative mold.

In the main, however, the faculty at Northwestern and the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus tended to be of a more conservative mold.

While it might be easy to assume that Mrs. Bourne, a 36-year-old mother of three young children, fits the conservative mold of her father, she contends that would be a mistake.

As the Dolphins roared back after intermission, the team - whose plays are called upstairs by the offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, the former Cowboys head coach - broke its usual conservative mold.

Codification fossilized Hindu law and customs into a conservative mold.

Given the luxury of 12 years, Presidents Reagan and Bush went a long way toward fulfilling their pledges to remake the Federal judiciary in a more conservative mold.

A moderate Democrat and a consummate politician, he easily fit into the centrist, conservative mold of Utah politics and was elected each time by overwhelming majorities.

Leningrad's party chief, Yuri F. Solovyev, is from a more conservative mold.

Bishop Cronin, who is 64 years old, had not been among those mentioned in church circles as a possible candidate for the prestigious post, but the choice fit the conservative mold of other recent papal appointments.