(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.
Victoria
Definition:
(n.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
(n.) A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
(n.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(2) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(3) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
(4) In 1835, before she became Queen, a young Victoria stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse, which has almost 400 rooms.
(5) Quit Victoria's acting executive director, Kylie Lindorff, said the research proved the legislation had worked in terms of reducing the appeal of cigarettes, but longer-term research was being carried out to determine if it led more smokers to quit.
(6) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
(7) Aequorin is the Ca2+-activated photoprotein which participates in the bioluminescence from the circumoral ring of the hydromedusa Aequorea victoria.
(8) Victoria blue positive cells were found in 11 tumors and 15 paratumorous regions of 23 ducks with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(9) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
(10) In a retrospective study the case histories of 70 users of Depo-Provera (containing depo medroxyprogesterone acetate) were reviewed during April-June 1987 at the Family Planning Association of Victoria's Richmond Clinic in Australia to ascertain their socioeconomic status, obstetric and contraceptive history, and side effects of Depo-Provera use.
(11) An experiment was undertaken between July and November 1985 in East Gippsland, Victoria, to determine the efficacy of an intra-ruminal controlled-release albendazole capsule against naturally acquired worm burdens and larval challenge in Merino hoggets.
(12) Here’s the judge in full flight : ‘Speak for England!’ cried out Leo Amery, and the Attorney-General for the State of Victoria seems to have decided to speak not just for Victoria, but for all Australia.
(13) The utility of recombinant DNA probes in the detection of natural trypanosome infection of tsetse flies has been assessed in Lambwe Valley, near the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya.
(14) 7.53pm: Brown has arrived at the Labour HQ on Victoria Street.
(15) The campaign director, Dominic Cummings , who recently survived a reported effort to oust him, the chief executive, Matthew Elliott, and the company secretary, Victoria Woodcock, are also stepping down from the board.
(16) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(17) The main events in the spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness around the eastern shores of Lake Victoria during the 1930s and 1940s are summarized and the history of the disease in the Lambwe Valley area of western Kenya is described since its appearance there in 1959.
(18) However, these are aspirational targets, whereas Victoria wants a binding system to ensure renewables uptake.
(19) This study ascertained 164 males with non-communicating hydrocephalus in live or stillborn patients in Victoria.
(20) Victoria published its school funding heads of agreement in early August, and a Victorian government spokeswoman said this week it considered that binding.