(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.
Towy
Definition:
(a.) Composed of, or like, tow.
Example Sentences:
(1) He adds: "Educating Essex was all part of that explosion of all things Essex – Towie and fake celebrities.
(2) It’s more important than ever to be quicker to the punch,” notes Lee, “to have better scouts and have a better line in to what’s buzzworthy in the UK.” However, it remains unclear whether a bigger corporate deal for ABC or its parent Disney is in prospect, like those made by other US companies this year (MTV owner Viacom’s Channel 5 acquisition, Liberty Global and Discovery buying Hollyoaks and Towie producer All3Media).
(3) For most countries, non-native content is nothing unusual, as anyone who has found Towie improbably belching itself out of a hotel telly abroad can confirm, but the assumption had reigned for many years that anything featuring foreign tongues would make Britons squirm away in horror.
(4) Scott Mills: Weekend Anthems is available from iTunes now Mick Norcross (Towie) Photograph: Rex Towie's answer to Brian Potter 1 Nando's vending machine Chicken on Tap!
(5) It's almost saying you can be like this, you don't have to look glossy and like you're off Towie [The Only Way is Essex]."
(6) Also in his sights are the game's governing body ("Just received my weekly warning letter from the FA headquarters"); and the likes of Alan Sugar, former QPR manager Neil Warnock and the entire cast of TOWIE .
(7) Wrestling perfected staged reality years before Towie GH The most offensive thing you can say to a wrestler is that wrestling is fake.
(8) "And in any case shows such as Towie and Geordie Shore are popular for the same reason as Big Brother – characters."
(9) A place that reveres not achievement-free celebrity, but astonishing skill, granite determination and good grace, the land not of TOWIE but of Bradley Wiggins, Nicola Adams and Laura Trott.
(10) Going TOWIE Low on animal costumes and high on fake tans, rarely will you see a better turned out, carefully coiffured and perfectly made-up crowd than at Chelmsford.
(11) W hat I like about this site,” says Grayson Perry as he surveys a scrappy bit of land in Wrabness, north-east Essex, “is they wouldn’t film Towie here.” Flagrant structured-reality slander aside, the largely excellent Grayson Perry’s Dream House follows the process of building a fully habitable and rentable house to Grayson’s artistic specifications, as commissioned by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project (but don’t let that put you off).
(12) 3 Gaffer tape To put over some of the TOWIE cast's mouths when they talk in a rude manner.
(13) It's not "enhanced" reality, in the sense that Towie (The Only Way is Essex) is, it's just plain reality; but there is a sense of hyper-reality about it.