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Tore


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Tear
  • () imp. of Tear.
  • (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
  • (n.) Same as Torus.
  • (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
  • (n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
  • (2) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
  • (3) The Daily Beast asked the Trump campaign about a story from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, in which Trump allegedly tore out clumps of then-wife Ivana Trump’s hair before allegedly sexually assaulting her in a way that, according to Hurt, she characterized to friends as “rape,” later clarifying that she felt “violated” but not in “a literal or criminal sense.” It’s depressing to consider how little difference this might make in the GOP race.
  • (4) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
  • (5) But the following morning Abdullah declared himself the winner in an emotional speech to a crowd of supporters who tore down a portrait of Karzai and replaced it with a photograph of Abdullah.
  • (6) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
  • (7) But then a black hole tore our world very close to us.
  • (8) Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero ‘in tears’ after injury on Argentina duty Read more Agüero tore a muscle in his left thigh half an hour into the team’s opening South American qualifier for the 2018 World Cup in Russia at the River Plate stadium on Thursday.
  • (9) Upon his return, in August last year, he tore a hamstring during the warm-up before a league game against the same opponents.
  • (10) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
  • (11) You feel like you are family.” The club confirmed Tore will not link up with the squad, who are on a pre-season tour of the United States, but will begin his build-up to the new season at their Chadwell Heath training base.
  • (12) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
  • (13) Allen, who replaced Andrew Lansley as Tory MP for Cambridgeshire South in May, was heard in silence as she tore into the government over its tax credit plans.
  • (14) Won’t you take responsibility for that?” In tears, the athlete replied: “I don’t have to look at a picture, I was there.” As the prosecutor tore holes in the defence version of events, Pistorius told the judge: “My memory isn’t very good at the moment.
  • (15) No disrespect to our opponents but we never look past ourselves.” Wilmots was able to confirm that Vertonghen tore two of his three ankle ligaments in an accident at the end of training, and will probably be replaced by Jordan Lukaku.
  • (16) Another victim was Tore Eikeland, 21, president of the AUF, whom the Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has described as "one of the most promising politicians of the next generation".
  • (17) On the Greek island of Chios, hundreds of people tore down a razor wire fence that had kept them imprisoned in a camp and fled.
  • (18) All muscles tore at the distal musculotendinous junction, and there was no difference in the length increase at tear between muscles in each group.
  • (19) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
  • (20) Rose tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the 2012 playoffs.

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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