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Rory


Definition:

  • (a.) Dewy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
  • (2) Nushra Mansuri , professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers Vasilios Ioakimidis , secretary of the European Association of Schools of Social Work and programme director of MA international social work and community development at the University of Durham Rory Truell , secretary-general of the International Federation of Social Workers Discussion commissioned and controlled by the Guardian, hosted to a brief agreed with Cafcass.
  • (3) Rory Kinnear is captivating as the journalist covering a massacre.
  • (4) After expressing frustration with Stoke City's style of play, the dreadful standard of the game and the lack of width available on a pitch narrowed to exploit Rory Delap's throw-ins, Tony Mowbray finally realised that a sixth defeat in seven matches might also owe something to West Bromwich Albion's shortcomings.
  • (5) Gray said he and his brother, Rory, who lives in Germany, had met Wood and been in contact by email during her investigation.
  • (6) He tweeted on Wednesday: “I did not pull out of presenting the Rory Peck Awards - they dropped me.” The awards were set up in 1995 in memory of freelance cameraman Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993.
  • (7) When Rory McIlroy is hitting hole-in-ones and Carl Frampton is swinging knock-out punches, we cheer together.
  • (8) Rory Stewart in Iraq in 2004 during his time as deputy governorate co-ordinator of Maysan province.
  • (9) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
  • (10) Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist who served as an aide to former House majority leader Eric Cantor, also said the rest of the field should distance itself from Trump “early and often”.
  • (11) Ringo Starr, Elton John, Ronnie Wood, Rory Gallagher and Brian May were among the extraordinary cast who joined him for his come-back album, Puttin' On The Style, which was launched in grand style with a party in the south of France.
  • (12) Fittingly, for an actor playing a TV news reporter who is called to the scene, it is Rory Kinnear who best articulates the conflicting emotions around such an event.
  • (13) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.
  • (14) A former economics editor of the Independent who is married to the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones , Coyle was tipped as a leading contender for the job earlier this month .
  • (15) The MoD needs to understand better the links between deployment, alcohol misuse and violent behaviour, especially domestic violence.” Rory Stewart MP, the committee chairman, said: “The armed forces is perhaps the most impressive and effective institution in Britain today, and an inspiration to the rest of the country.
  • (16) Rory Stewart, a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said in a statement released over the weekend: “There are clear benefits of EU membership for our natural environment, both at home and abroad.
  • (17) In Cumbria, the new Tory MP for Penrith and the Borders, Rory Stewart, is trying to improve the provision of broadband.
  • (18) Southcliffe, a Channel 4 drama about the aftermath of a series of shootings in a small town, also picked up supporting actor and actress nods for Rory Kinnear and Shirley Henderson and is in the running in the mini-series category.
  • (19) Rory Albanese (@RoryAlbanese) I only wish I was there so I could tongue kiss @StephenAtHome the way he deserves.
  • (20) Rory Carroll reports: Asked whether this launch is a response to pressure to monetize, Zuckberg laughs it off.

Tory


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
  • (n.) One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.
  • (a.) Of ro pertaining to the Tories.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (2) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (3) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (4) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
  • (5) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
  • (6) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
  • (7) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (8) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (9) The Tories plan to start running a surplus from 2018.
  • (10) The Tories were seen as out of touch and for the few.
  • (11) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
  • (12) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (13) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
  • (14) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
  • (15) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
  • (16) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (17) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
  • (18) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
  • (19) Every vote for the SNP in May is another boost for David Cameron, and makes it more likely the Tories will be the largest party across the UK after the election.
  • (20) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.

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