(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.
Toryism
Definition:
(n.) The principles of the Tories.
Example Sentences:
(1) The imposition of a poll tax on the Scots in 1989 contributed to Margaret Thatcher's downfall and all but wiped out Scottish Toryism.
(2) David's controversial politics, which encompassed opposition to apartheid and the death penalty, were very different from his brother's Toryism.
(3) Either way it will be the Bullingdon Club’s, and Toryism’s, greatest gift to civilisation.
(4) He was a key believer in selective schools, and steered May towards a policy programme of Red Toryism that is socially conservative and economically interventionist.
(5) The shrivelling of liberal and green Toryism creates space for the Lib Dems to be clearly differentiated from their frenemies in the coalition.
(6) Polly Toynbee has called it “ old-fashioned decent Toryism ”, and it can be seen at the helm of county councils such as Surrey.
(7) Toryism has found its heart – but must convince us it beats | Matthew d’Ancona Read more The civil service, BBC, NHS, local government, HSBC, Deloitte, KPMG, Virgin Money, learndirect – all these and more will now recruit people solely on merit.
(8) But Clegg's ambitions don't stop there: he wants the Liberal Democrats to be a party of the middle, for those on middle incomes, that tames the extremes of Toryism and Labour.
(9) His mother, Jane Portal, a former secretary to Winston Churchill who became Baroness Williams of Elvel, links the future archbishop to Rab Butler and liberal Toryism.
(10) A pragmatic “muddling through” is the Toryism dominant through most of the 20th century.
(11) The key to all this is what Blond calls Red Toryism, a critique-cum-credo that harks back to the old paternalist Conservatism that was all but obliterated by Margaret Thatcher, but is also aimed at providing an answer to an array of very modern problems.
(12) Next month the Labour party will do likewise, chanting against the hardy hobgoblins of banking, tax-dodging and Toryism.
(13) He could summon the spirits of Toryism past, but will they come?
(14) Indeed, when Scottish Toryism triumphed in 1955, record numbers of Scots were flocking to the Church of Scotland.
(15) Constituency associations, rarely more than a hundred strong, will nominate Eurosceptic libertarians as their standard-bearers – a brand of conservatism philosophically very distant from what their constituents believe Toryism is about – but disguised by the legitimising, comforting mantle of apparently being a commonsense Tory.
(16) The publication was described by the Spectator as being "one of the founding texts of the new, revitalised Toryism", which had "argued compellingly that the party should embrace radical localism".
(17) But as active Protestantism and the sectarian Orange Order waned in strength after the 1950s, the base of Scottish Toryism was chipped away.
(18) British Toryism, nowadays synonymous with Conservatism, has never escaped its metaphor miasma.
(19) "Core to what David Cameron feels," says the source, "is that a Toryism that is all about the price of everything and the value of nothing, is arid and inadequate, and not him.
(20) Under her aegis, Toryism redefined itself against the power of an overwhelming state.