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单词 tory-controlled
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Tory-controlled
b. As a modifier, with past participles, with the sense ‘by Tories; with Tories’, as in Tory-controlled, Tory-appointed, Tory-ridden, etc. (adjectives).
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1777 London Evening-Post 31 May When a King of Great Britain shall be so thoroughly Scotch and Tory ridden, as to emulate the character of Charles the First.., we shall find the Bishops ever faithful echoes of the Crown.
1839 C. G. F. Gore Cabinet Minister I. iv. 56 Lord Raynham,—a self-created Solon, a Tory-created peer.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 2/3 Cases like mine, where in Tory-ridden villages the overseers resent both Liberal and women voters.
1908 W. S. Churchill in Nation 7 Mar. 812/2 The pressure of Tory-voiced discontent.
1961 Economist 2 Dec. 883/3 The new GLC, which will include the suburbs, is likely to be Tory-controlled.
1995 Canad. Hist. Rev. Mar. 11 In Upper Canada, the situation was superficially normal; harmony reigned between the executive and a Tory-dominated Assembly.
2016 Sun (Nexis) 11 Jan. 15 Round my way, the Tory-controlled council has just put daily commuter car parking charges up by 50p to £7.
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