Word Finder - tories

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(UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.

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(by extension) One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative.

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(Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.

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A member of the political factions that sought to prevent the exclusion of James, Duke of York from the throne of England in the 17th century.

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An Irish rebel fighting against English rule at the end of the Confederate War and Cromwellian invasion; later extended to other rebels or bandits.

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(American Revolution) A loyal British subject.

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(American Civil War, Confederate states) A Union sympathizer.

Some Tories were imprisoned here after 1780; many of them escaped in May 1781.

Yet the opposition of the Tories had not been wholly inspired by the desire to maintain the political predominance of a class.

When it was over the Liberal party was just short of the numerical strength which was requisite to defeat the combination of Tories and Parnellites.

From this point of view Swift's sympathies were entirely with the Tories.

This wild conduct alienated the moderate Tories, who, much as they wished to see the throne occupied by the heir of the ancient line, could not bring themselves to consent to its occupation by a Roman Catholic prince.

The first reformed parliament, which met on the 29th of January 1833, consisted in the main of Whigs, with a sprinkling of Radicals and a compact body of Liberal Tories under Sir Robert Peel.

An attempt to divert some of the revenues of the Irish Church led in the autumn to serious differences of opinion in the cabinet; the king, as tenacious as his father of the exact obligations of his coronation oath, dismissed the ministry, and called the Tories to office under Sir Robert Peel and the duke of Wellington.

The interruption of the conferences at Gertruydenberg having obliged the Whigs and Marlborough to resign their power into the hands of the Tories, now sick of war, the death of the emperor Joseph 1.

Upon the death of Lord Liverpool, Canning was called to the head of affairs; the Tories, including Peel, withdrew their support, and an alliance was formed between the Liberal members of the late ministry and the Whigs.

The favour shown him by Marlborough did not deter Rivers from paying court to the Tories when it became evident that the Whig ascendancy was waning, and his appointment as constable of the Tower in 1710 on the recommendation of Harley and without Marlborough's knowledge was the first unmistakable intimation to the Whigs of their impending fall.

A new parliament was elected, almost entirely composed of decided Tories.

A new Tory party had sprung up, not distinguished, like the Tories of Queen Annes reign, by a special ecclesiastical policy, but by their acceptance of the kings claim to nominate ministers, and so to predominate in the ministryhimself.

The Wellington ministry, hated by the Liberals, denounced even by the Tories as traitorous for the few concessions made, resigned on the 16th of November; and the Whigs at last came into office under Lord whig Grey, the ministry also including a few of the more ministry Liberal Tories.

In the 17th century political partisanship colored historical writing, and that, too, remained a potent motive so long as historians were either Whigs or Tories.

It was an impracticable situation - no getting on from it; and so, at Lyndhurst's persuasion, as he afterwards acknowledged, he determined to side with the Tories.

Amid all this the Tory fortunes sank rapidly, becoming nearly hopeless when Lord Palmerston, without appreciable loss of confidence on his own side, persuaded many Tories in and out of parliament that Conservatism would suffer little while he was in power.

The country was appealed to, with good but insufficient results; and at the first meeting of the new parliament the Tories were turned out on a no-confidence vote moved by Lord Hartington.

They were immediately reprinted, the latter being dedicated to the lord mayor and the former to the author's kinsman, George Sacheverell, high sheriff of Derby for the year; and, as the passions of the whole British population were at this period keenly exercised between the rival factions of Whig and Tory, the vehement invectives of this furious divine on behalf of an ecclesiastical institution which supplied the bulk of the adherents of the Tories made him their idol.

When the House met in August, it was decided by the Liberal Unionists, under Lord Hartington's leadership, that their policy henceforth was essentially to combine with the Tories to keep Mr Gladstone out.

He was one of the Boston grand jurors who refused to serve in 1774 because parliament had made the justices independent of the people for their salaries; was a leader in the Boston Tea Party; was one of the thirty North End mechanics who patrolled the streets to watch the movements of the British troops and Tories; and in December 1774 was sent to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to urge the seizure of military stores there, and induced the colonists to attack and capture Fort William and Mary - one of the first acts of military force in the war.

Still, even all the bias can't hide the fact that the Tories are heading for another very heavy defeat.

Many Tories collaborated with Labor over the 1960s cultural revolution which licensed pornography, abolished hanging, legalized abortion on demand.

It was a Lib Dem amendment, supported by the Tories.

Only the Tories and a tiny minority of the labor MPs would support a war without explicit UN authorization.

Bob Geldof and the Tories may well prove rather odd bedfellows.

In 1707 she showed this by appointing two Tories to vacant bishoprics.

Labor are supposed to be the bossy ones --- the ones with a rigid blueprint for society --- not the Tories.

The Tories ' abiding belief that taxes are wrong springs from a moral certainty that the state itself does moral harm.

Labor appointed an unknown civil servant, Ted Cantle, to head its probe; the Tories assigned Lord Scarman, a senior judge.

The Tories ' approach toward Ireland symbolized the continuity between their reactionary domestic policies and their reactionary foreign policy.

For a start, will he revoke the Government's 1999 order behind which the Tories are hiding for their dastardly deed?

This is the first parliamentary defection to the Tories in 25 years.

This act caused much disquiet in Scotland where the SNP accused the Tories of using Scotland for experimental purposes.

How did the Tories contribute to their own downfall?

This is the model now espoused more or less openly by the Tories.

The Tories, moreover, are venturing deep into traditional Labor territory with their attacks on alleged failings in various public services.

Far from starving the beast, the Tories seem hesitant even to put it on a diet.

If the Tories do not grasp this particular nettle then they will slide into oblivion like The Whigs before them.

The Tories were strongly opposed to increasing the number of people who could vote.

Could the Tories have avoided political oblivion a decade ago?

The Tories have opposed the Bill on purely opportunistic grounds.

The Tories thus need to adopt a self-denying ordinance.

In fact considering where most Tories speak from it means they will have two orifices to spout their ridiculous policies from instead of one.

Vital Local Elections, essential to get the corrupt incompetent Lib-Dem Tories ousted from Lambeth.

Lower mortgage rates are saving mortgage payers an average of £ 3,780 a year compared to under the Tories.

Labor makes the Tories 18 years in government look positively Puritan.

Labor has won 393 seats against the Tories 213.

Thank goodness he did not live to see the shambles that turned into the Tories ' privatization of the railways.

The Tories don't exactly, ahem, inspire confidence, what with their leadership struggles and slightly snotty public image.

The Lib Dem health spokesman, Dr. Evan Harris, has accused the Tories of " playing politics with public health " .