Tories

1. A political party in Britain , also called the Conservative party. In the late eighteenth century, the Tories took form as defenders of the king and stability and of established interests in Britain; they advised caution in making political and social change. Winston Churchill , Benjamin Disraeli , and Margaret Thatcher belonged to the party.

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It all gets even more baroque, and, in the short term anyway, even worse for the Tories.

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In the short term, though, the Tories might be hurt more by a “yes” win.

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Indeed, the Tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus.

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Mostly such Tories were not big, paid-up Thatcherites, but they did enjoy that era very much.

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Some High Tories who were not very interested in Liberal economics were very anti-Thatcher.

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Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."

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The Tories were reminded that his soldiers had guarded the scaffold before the Banqueting House.

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He did not, like some hot headed men, among both the Whigs and the Tories, contend that there ought to be no regular soldiers.

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Tories and malecontent Whigs, elated by the hope that Montague might be convicted of malversation, eagerly called for inquiry.

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The Tories, with Seymour at their head, appealed both to the good faith and to the compassion of Parliament.

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