Definition of Tory in English:

Tory

nounPlural Tories ˈtɔːriˈtɔri

1(in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
（英国）保守党党员；保守党支持者
a poll showed the Tories thirteen points behind Labour
Example sentencesExamples
- Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all stand full square behind the private sector
- There are middle and upper class socialists, just as there are working class Tories.
- They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories.
- The Tories and the Liberal Democrats sought to score political points over the crisis.
- Yet New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all agree on maintaining the occupation.
- Only by changing this pattern and being harsh will refugees be neutralised as an issue for the Tories and the BNP.
- Let's be honest, who cares if the Tories accuse the Liberal Democrats of this or the Lib Dems accuse Labour of that?
- Now a real Socialist alternative to New Labour, the Tories and the BNP is on offer.
- The Labour councillors voted with the Tories in support of this motion, while the Lib Dems opposed it.
- The upbeat mood swung wildly from the Tories to the Lib Dems as supporters scrutinised the ballot papers for clues.
- Unlike the Liberal Democrats and the Tories, it has no centralised campaign for the student vote.
- Liberal Unionists joined the Tories to launch the Unionist Party in Scotland in 1912.
- To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism.
- Any pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats leaves the Tories one down in the numbers game.
- But the Liberal Democrats and the Tories did not make the breakthrough in councils they hoped for.
- The Tories and Liberal Democrats deny they are a coalition but we have noted they frequently vote together.
- New Labour is racked by growing divisions over its loss of popular support and the same can be said for the Tories and SNP.
- Where I live it's a straight race between the Tories and Liberal Democrats.
- There is no great victory in this for the Tories or Liberal Democrats.
- The committee comprises seven Labour MPs, three Tories and one Liberal Democrat.
1. 1.1 A member of the English political party opposing the exclusion of James II from the succession. It remained the name for members of the English, later British, parliamentary party supporting the established religious and political order until the emergence of the Conservative Party in the 1830s.
  托利党党员（反对排斥詹姆士二世继承王位的英格兰政党成员；19世纪30年代保守党出现以前，支持现存宗教和政治制度的英格兰及后来英国的议会党成员一直沿用此名）。比较WHIG （义项1）
  Compare with Whig (sense 1)
  Example sentencesExamples
  These were not political parties in the sense of the Whigs or Tories, or Hats and Caps.
  Disraeli had resisted the attempts of some of his party faithful to make the Tories a solely Anglican party.
  The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign.
  It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole.
  Synonyms
  right-winger, reactionary, rightist, diehard
2US A colonist who supported the British side during the War of American Independence.
〈美〉（美国独立战争期间的）亲英殖民者

adjective ˈtɔːriˈtɔri

Relating to the British Conservative Party or its supporters.
（与）英国保守党（有关）的；（与）英国保守党支持者（有关）的
the Tory party
保守党集会。
Tory voters
保守党投票人。
Example sentencesExamples
- The debate on the Maastricht Treaty tore apart the last Tory government.
- His childhood home was in Winton, a working-class area far in its culture from the conventional view of Bournemouth as a retirement home for Britain's highest concentration of Tory voters.
- It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity.
- There is a grain of truth here, but we are all now too conscious of middle-class socialists, Tory workers, and the like, to pursue this line uncritically.
- The lesson of the Tory age - that long-life governments have to take particular care to guard against corruption - has been forgotten already.
- What is novel is the error in the minds of Tory pundits: the fallacy of the superior virtue of the blessed.
- They were the prototype for most Tory election addresses for the next century.
- By backing a Tory amendment, the Government will split any opposition to its stance.
- Conversely, the monarchical tradition in Europe and Canada fostered Tory statism.
- He describes himself as a long-time Tory supporter who was in favour of the merger last year of the Conservatives with their often bitter right-wing rivals the Alliance.
- By deliberately steering between the extremes of prevailing Whig and Tory philosophies he incurred the complaints of both sides.
- Given the Tory divisions over Europe, it is likely that a strong pro or anti thrust would split the party.
- Our only chance was somehow to win the support of sufficient numbers of Tory councillors.
- The fraud trials and convictions of more than a dozen former Tory MLAs, cabinet ministers and party hacks from the Devine era have been going on for about two years, with more to come.
- The immediate goal would be the defeat of the Liberals by a Tory government; the next step would be the abrogation of NAFTA, something which the agreement permits on six months' notice.
- It is, after all, easy to forget that guitar-groups reached their apogee during the last years of Tory rule.
- The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting.
- Unlike most other party youth wings, none of these various Tory youth brigades was ever officially affiliated to the party either the Alliance or now the Conservatives.
- The Tory philosophy of government is healthy and it is also healthy in terms of the quality of people it attracts.
- Nevertheless, as has been well documented, the Tory government was very critical of the BBC's coverage of the war.
Synonyms
right-wing, reactionary, traditionalist, unprogressive, establishmentarian, blimpish

Derivatives

Toryism

noun ˈtɔːrɪɪz(ə)mˈtɔriˌɪzəm

Scottish Toryism has simply lost the will to live.
Example sentencesExamples
- Conservatism in Canada in now consigned to a feeble merger between a western Canadian based version of the Hansonites and the cynical and bony hands of the last vestiges of federal Toryism.
- Not content with the evictions and other brutal acts, the landlords in open courts declared that they would exterminate those who opposed Toryism.
- One wonders repeatedly why he bothered, and why he did not turn his obvious abilities to something better, or take his Toryism off to a more promising part of the country.
- Edmund Burke, on the other hand, christened modern Toryism with his assertion that society was based on a set of values and principals which should not be eroded.
- The collapse of Toryism in Scotland has rendered many of these differences irrelevant but it's still the case that my middle-class Tory friends tend to be Rangers supporters.
- It was classic Toryism through and through, including the description of his humble origins combined with the admission that they did not amount to a right to lead his party.
- He felt he could no longer support the Conservatives but overall he says, it was the difficulty of marrying his own one nation Toryism with the convictions of the paper's owner that ultimately proved insuperable.
- It really is addressing people who need help, which is what Toryism should be about.
- It means that Toryism is not about one section of society grinding the faces of another section of society, with Tory politicians getting off on the sheer ideological purity and savagery of it all.
- Anyway, local-gov Tory isn't like full-blown Toryism.
- With the current wealth-friendly Labour leadership having adopted something rather similar this is no longer an identifying feature of Toryism.
- Yet the politics of the area nowadays demonstrate the precariousness of modern Toryism in general, and of Letwin's prospects in particular.
- ‘I want to reassert the tradition of liberal, one-nation Toryism and break with the image of extremism which is threatening our party,’ he said.
- Free market liberal Toryism used to promote One Nation goals: equality of opportunity promoted by the dispersal of power instead of new Labour's top-down approach.
- British Toryism prospered by not being conservative.
- There is a similar schism now within British Toryism.
- What matters is the quality of a character - and it is that temperamental capacity which makes Toryism into something that is plugged into the English mind.
- In contrast, today it is peopled by career politicians who gravitated to the party in its days of power, who see it as the means of attaining office, but have no understanding of Toryism.
- When the latest batch of fresh-faced first years arrives, I shall wait on tenterhooks for their response to new, improved Toryism.

Origin

Mid 17th century: probably from Irish toraidhe 'outlaw, highwayman', from tóir 'pursue'. The word was used of Irish peasants dispossessed by English settlers and living as robbers, and extended to other marauders especially in the Scottish Highlands. It was then adopted circa1679 as an abusive nickname for supporters of the Catholic James II.

Rhymes

cacciatore, Corey, dory, Florey, flory, furore, glory, gory, hoary, hunky-dory, lory, Maury, monsignori, Montessori, multistorey, Pori, Rory, satori, saury, storey, story, vainglory

Definition of Tory in US English:

Tory

nounˈtôrēˈtɔri

1US An American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution.
〈美〉（美国独立战争期间的）亲英殖民者
2(in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
（英国）保守党党员；保守党支持者
Example sentencesExamples
- Where I live it's a straight race between the Tories and Liberal Democrats.
- Now a real Socialist alternative to New Labour, the Tories and the BNP is on offer.
- They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories.
- Yet New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all agree on maintaining the occupation.
- The committee comprises seven Labour MPs, three Tories and one Liberal Democrat.
- The upbeat mood swung wildly from the Tories to the Lib Dems as supporters scrutinised the ballot papers for clues.
- The Tories and Liberal Democrats deny they are a coalition but we have noted they frequently vote together.
- Only by changing this pattern and being harsh will refugees be neutralised as an issue for the Tories and the BNP.
- Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all stand full square behind the private sector
- There are middle and upper class socialists, just as there are working class Tories.
- Let's be honest, who cares if the Tories accuse the Liberal Democrats of this or the Lib Dems accuse Labour of that?
- But the Liberal Democrats and the Tories did not make the breakthrough in councils they hoped for.
- Liberal Unionists joined the Tories to launch the Unionist Party in Scotland in 1912.
- There is no great victory in this for the Tories or Liberal Democrats.
- Any pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats leaves the Tories one down in the numbers game.
- New Labour is racked by growing divisions over its loss of popular support and the same can be said for the Tories and SNP.
- The Labour councillors voted with the Tories in support of this motion, while the Lib Dems opposed it.
- The Tories and the Liberal Democrats sought to score political points over the crisis.
- To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism.
- Unlike the Liberal Democrats and the Tories, it has no centralised campaign for the student vote.
1. 2.1 A member of the English political party opposing the exclusion of James II from the succession. It remained the name for members of the English, later British, parliamentary party supporting the established religious and political order until the emergence of the Conservative Party in the 1830s.
  托利党党员（反对排斥詹姆士二世继承王位的英格兰政党成员；19世纪30年代保守党出现以前，支持现存宗教和政治制度的英格兰及后来英国的议会党成员一直沿用此名）。比较WHIG （义项1）
  Compare with Whig (sense 1)
  Example sentencesExamples
  Disraeli had resisted the attempts of some of his party faithful to make the Tories a solely Anglican party.
  The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign.
  These were not political parties in the sense of the Whigs or Tories, or Hats and Caps.
  It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole.
  Synonyms
  right-winger, reactionary, rightist, diehard

adjectiveˈtôrēˈtɔri

Relating to the British Conservative Party or its supporters.
（与）英国保守党（有关）的；（与）英国保守党支持者（有关）的
Tory voters
保守党投票人。
Example sentencesExamples
- The lesson of the Tory age - that long-life governments have to take particular care to guard against corruption - has been forgotten already.
- It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity.
- The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting.
- There is a grain of truth here, but we are all now too conscious of middle-class socialists, Tory workers, and the like, to pursue this line uncritically.
- Nevertheless, as has been well documented, the Tory government was very critical of the BBC's coverage of the war.
- The immediate goal would be the defeat of the Liberals by a Tory government; the next step would be the abrogation of NAFTA, something which the agreement permits on six months' notice.
- Unlike most other party youth wings, none of these various Tory youth brigades was ever officially affiliated to the party either the Alliance or now the Conservatives.
- Given the Tory divisions over Europe, it is likely that a strong pro or anti thrust would split the party.
- The Tory philosophy of government is healthy and it is also healthy in terms of the quality of people it attracts.
- The debate on the Maastricht Treaty tore apart the last Tory government.
- By backing a Tory amendment, the Government will split any opposition to its stance.
- Our only chance was somehow to win the support of sufficient numbers of Tory councillors.
- Conversely, the monarchical tradition in Europe and Canada fostered Tory statism.
- It is, after all, easy to forget that guitar-groups reached their apogee during the last years of Tory rule.
- He describes himself as a long-time Tory supporter who was in favour of the merger last year of the Conservatives with their often bitter right-wing rivals the Alliance.
- His childhood home was in Winton, a working-class area far in its culture from the conventional view of Bournemouth as a retirement home for Britain's highest concentration of Tory voters.
- The fraud trials and convictions of more than a dozen former Tory MLAs, cabinet ministers and party hacks from the Devine era have been going on for about two years, with more to come.
- They were the prototype for most Tory election addresses for the next century.
- By deliberately steering between the extremes of prevailing Whig and Tory philosophies he incurred the complaints of both sides.
- What is novel is the error in the minds of Tory pundits: the fallacy of the superior virtue of the blessed.
Synonyms
right-wing, reactionary, traditionalist, unprogressive, establishmentarian, blimpish

Origin

Mid 17th century: probably from Irish toraidhe ‘outlaw, highwayman’, from tóir ‘pursue’. The word was used of Irish peasants dispossessed by English settlers and living as robbers, and extended to other marauders especially in the Scottish Highlands. It was then adopted c 1679 as an abusive nickname for supporters of the Catholic James II.

单词	Tory
释义	Definition of Tory in English: Tory nounPlural Tories ˈtɔːriˈtɔri 1(in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party. （英国）保守党党员；保守党支持者 a poll showed the Tories thirteen points behind Labour Example sentencesExamples Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all stand full square behind the private sector There are middle and upper class socialists, just as there are working class Tories. They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories. The Tories and the Liberal Democrats sought to score political points over the crisis. Yet New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all agree on maintaining the occupation. Only by changing this pattern and being harsh will refugees be neutralised as an issue for the Tories and the BNP. Let's be honest, who cares if the Tories accuse the Liberal Democrats of this or the Lib Dems accuse Labour of that? Now a real Socialist alternative to New Labour, the Tories and the BNP is on offer. The Labour councillors voted with the Tories in support of this motion, while the Lib Dems opposed it. The upbeat mood swung wildly from the Tories to the Lib Dems as supporters scrutinised the ballot papers for clues. Unlike the Liberal Democrats and the Tories, it has no centralised campaign for the student vote. Liberal Unionists joined the Tories to launch the Unionist Party in Scotland in 1912. To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism. Any pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats leaves the Tories one down in the numbers game. But the Liberal Democrats and the Tories did not make the breakthrough in councils they hoped for. The Tories and Liberal Democrats deny they are a coalition but we have noted they frequently vote together. New Labour is racked by growing divisions over its loss of popular support and the same can be said for the Tories and SNP. Where I live it's a straight race between the Tories and Liberal Democrats. There is no great victory in this for the Tories or Liberal Democrats. The committee comprises seven Labour MPs, three Tories and one Liberal Democrat. 1.1 A member of the English political party opposing the exclusion of James II from the succession. It remained the name for members of the English, later British, parliamentary party supporting the established religious and political order until the emergence of the Conservative Party in the 1830s. 托利党党员（反对排斥詹姆士二世继承王位的英格兰政党成员；19世纪30年代保守党出现以前，支持现存宗教和政治制度的英格兰及后来英国的议会党成员一直沿用此名）。比较WHIG （义项1） Compare with Whig (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples These were not political parties in the sense of the Whigs or Tories, or Hats and Caps. Disraeli had resisted the attempts of some of his party faithful to make the Tories a solely Anglican party. The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign. It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole. Synonyms right-winger, reactionary, rightist, diehard 2US A colonist who supported the British side during the War of American Independence. 〈美〉（美国独立战争期间的）亲英殖民者 adjective ˈtɔːriˈtɔri Relating to the British Conservative Party or its supporters. （与）英国保守党（有关）的；（与）英国保守党支持者（有关）的 the Tory party 保守党集会。 Tory voters 保守党投票人。 Example sentencesExamples The debate on the Maastricht Treaty tore apart the last Tory government. His childhood home was in Winton, a working-class area far in its culture from the conventional view of Bournemouth as a retirement home for Britain's highest concentration of Tory voters. It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity. There is a grain of truth here, but we are all now too conscious of middle-class socialists, Tory workers, and the like, to pursue this line uncritically. The lesson of the Tory age - that long-life governments have to take particular care to guard against corruption - has been forgotten already. What is novel is the error in the minds of Tory pundits: the fallacy of the superior virtue of the blessed. They were the prototype for most Tory election addresses for the next century. By backing a Tory amendment, the Government will split any opposition to its stance. Conversely, the monarchical tradition in Europe and Canada fostered Tory statism. He describes himself as a long-time Tory supporter who was in favour of the merger last year of the Conservatives with their often bitter right-wing rivals the Alliance. By deliberately steering between the extremes of prevailing Whig and Tory philosophies he incurred the complaints of both sides. Given the Tory divisions over Europe, it is likely that a strong pro or anti thrust would split the party. Our only chance was somehow to win the support of sufficient numbers of Tory councillors. The fraud trials and convictions of more than a dozen former Tory MLAs, cabinet ministers and party hacks from the Devine era have been going on for about two years, with more to come. The immediate goal would be the defeat of the Liberals by a Tory government; the next step would be the abrogation of NAFTA, something which the agreement permits on six months' notice. It is, after all, easy to forget that guitar-groups reached their apogee during the last years of Tory rule. The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting. Unlike most other party youth wings, none of these various Tory youth brigades was ever officially affiliated to the party either the Alliance or now the Conservatives. The Tory philosophy of government is healthy and it is also healthy in terms of the quality of people it attracts. Nevertheless, as has been well documented, the Tory government was very critical of the BBC's coverage of the war. Synonyms right-wing, reactionary, traditionalist, unprogressive, establishmentarian, blimpish Derivatives Toryism noun ˈtɔːrɪɪz(ə)mˈtɔriˌɪzəm Scottish Toryism has simply lost the will to live. Example sentencesExamples Conservatism in Canada in now consigned to a feeble merger between a western Canadian based version of the Hansonites and the cynical and bony hands of the last vestiges of federal Toryism. Not content with the evictions and other brutal acts, the landlords in open courts declared that they would exterminate those who opposed Toryism. One wonders repeatedly why he bothered, and why he did not turn his obvious abilities to something better, or take his Toryism off to a more promising part of the country. Edmund Burke, on the other hand, christened modern Toryism with his assertion that society was based on a set of values and principals which should not be eroded. The collapse of Toryism in Scotland has rendered many of these differences irrelevant but it's still the case that my middle-class Tory friends tend to be Rangers supporters. It was classic Toryism through and through, including the description of his humble origins combined with the admission that they did not amount to a right to lead his party. He felt he could no longer support the Conservatives but overall he says, it was the difficulty of marrying his own one nation Toryism with the convictions of the paper's owner that ultimately proved insuperable. It really is addressing people who need help, which is what Toryism should be about. It means that Toryism is not about one section of society grinding the faces of another section of society, with Tory politicians getting off on the sheer ideological purity and savagery of it all. Anyway, local-gov Tory isn't like full-blown Toryism. With the current wealth-friendly Labour leadership having adopted something rather similar this is no longer an identifying feature of Toryism. Yet the politics of the area nowadays demonstrate the precariousness of modern Toryism in general, and of Letwin's prospects in particular. ‘I want to reassert the tradition of liberal, one-nation Toryism and break with the image of extremism which is threatening our party,’ he said. Free market liberal Toryism used to promote One Nation goals: equality of opportunity promoted by the dispersal of power instead of new Labour's top-down approach. British Toryism prospered by not being conservative. There is a similar schism now within British Toryism. What matters is the quality of a character - and it is that temperamental capacity which makes Toryism into something that is plugged into the English mind. In contrast, today it is peopled by career politicians who gravitated to the party in its days of power, who see it as the means of attaining office, but have no understanding of Toryism. When the latest batch of fresh-faced first years arrives, I shall wait on tenterhooks for their response to new, improved Toryism. Origin Mid 17th century: probably from Irish toraidhe 'outlaw, highwayman', from tóir 'pursue'. The word was used of Irish peasants dispossessed by English settlers and living as robbers, and extended to other marauders especially in the Scottish Highlands. It was then adopted circa1679 as an abusive nickname for supporters of the Catholic James II. Rhymes cacciatore, Corey, dory, Florey, flory, furore, glory, gory, hoary, hunky-dory, lory, Maury, monsignori, Montessori, multistorey, Pori, Rory, satori, saury, storey, story, vainglory Definition of Tory in US English: Tory nounˈtôrēˈtɔri 1US An American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution. 〈美〉（美国独立战争期间的）亲英殖民者 2(in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party. （英国）保守党党员；保守党支持者 Example sentencesExamples Where I live it's a straight race between the Tories and Liberal Democrats. Now a real Socialist alternative to New Labour, the Tories and the BNP is on offer. They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories. Yet New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all agree on maintaining the occupation. The committee comprises seven Labour MPs, three Tories and one Liberal Democrat. The upbeat mood swung wildly from the Tories to the Lib Dems as supporters scrutinised the ballot papers for clues. The Tories and Liberal Democrats deny they are a coalition but we have noted they frequently vote together. Only by changing this pattern and being harsh will refugees be neutralised as an issue for the Tories and the BNP. Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all stand full square behind the private sector There are middle and upper class socialists, just as there are working class Tories. Let's be honest, who cares if the Tories accuse the Liberal Democrats of this or the Lib Dems accuse Labour of that? But the Liberal Democrats and the Tories did not make the breakthrough in councils they hoped for. Liberal Unionists joined the Tories to launch the Unionist Party in Scotland in 1912. There is no great victory in this for the Tories or Liberal Democrats. Any pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats leaves the Tories one down in the numbers game. New Labour is racked by growing divisions over its loss of popular support and the same can be said for the Tories and SNP. The Labour councillors voted with the Tories in support of this motion, while the Lib Dems opposed it. The Tories and the Liberal Democrats sought to score political points over the crisis. To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism. Unlike the Liberal Democrats and the Tories, it has no centralised campaign for the student vote. 2.1 A member of the English political party opposing the exclusion of James II from the succession. It remained the name for members of the English, later British, parliamentary party supporting the established religious and political order until the emergence of the Conservative Party in the 1830s. 托利党党员（反对排斥詹姆士二世继承王位的英格兰政党成员；19世纪30年代保守党出现以前，支持现存宗教和政治制度的英格兰及后来英国的议会党成员一直沿用此名）。比较WHIG （义项1） Compare with Whig (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples Disraeli had resisted the attempts of some of his party faithful to make the Tories a solely Anglican party. The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign. These were not political parties in the sense of the Whigs or Tories, or Hats and Caps. It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole. Synonyms right-winger, reactionary, rightist, diehard adjectiveˈtôrēˈtɔri Relating to the British Conservative Party or its supporters. （与）英国保守党（有关）的；（与）英国保守党支持者（有关）的 Tory voters 保守党投票人。 Example sentencesExamples The lesson of the Tory age - that long-life governments have to take particular care to guard against corruption - has been forgotten already. It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity. The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting. There is a grain of truth here, but we are all now too conscious of middle-class socialists, Tory workers, and the like, to pursue this line uncritically. Nevertheless, as has been well documented, the Tory government was very critical of the BBC's coverage of the war. The immediate goal would be the defeat of the Liberals by a Tory government; the next step would be the abrogation of NAFTA, something which the agreement permits on six months' notice. Unlike most other party youth wings, none of these various Tory youth brigades was ever officially affiliated to the party either the Alliance or now the Conservatives. Given the Tory divisions over Europe, it is likely that a strong pro or anti thrust would split the party. The Tory philosophy of government is healthy and it is also healthy in terms of the quality of people it attracts. The debate on the Maastricht Treaty tore apart the last Tory government. By backing a Tory amendment, the Government will split any opposition to its stance. Our only chance was somehow to win the support of sufficient numbers of Tory councillors. Conversely, the monarchical tradition in Europe and Canada fostered Tory statism. It is, after all, easy to forget that guitar-groups reached their apogee during the last years of Tory rule. He describes himself as a long-time Tory supporter who was in favour of the merger last year of the Conservatives with their often bitter right-wing rivals the Alliance. His childhood home was in Winton, a working-class area far in its culture from the conventional view of Bournemouth as a retirement home for Britain's highest concentration of Tory voters. The fraud trials and convictions of more than a dozen former Tory MLAs, cabinet ministers and party hacks from the Devine era have been going on for about two years, with more to come. They were the prototype for most Tory election addresses for the next century. By deliberately steering between the extremes of prevailing Whig and Tory philosophies he incurred the complaints of both sides. What is novel is the error in the minds of Tory pundits: the fallacy of the superior virtue of the blessed. Synonyms right-wing, reactionary, traditionalist, unprogressive, establishmentarian, blimpish Origin Mid 17th century: probably from Irish toraidhe ‘outlaw, highwayman’, from tóir ‘pursue’. The word was used of Irish peasants dispossessed by English settlers and living as robbers, and extended to other marauders especially in the Scottish Highlands. It was then adopted c 1679 as an abusive nickname for supporters of the Catholic James II.
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