whig

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Examples

• To him, Churchill “was radical precisely because he was conservative” and “essentially a buccaneering Victorian Whig.”

• The party splinters, and out of the wreckage a new center-right “Whig Party” emerges.

• For the first time in a century and a half, the Whig Party has successfully elected a candidate.

• No, not the GOP, but the Whig Party, the original party of Lincoln.

• Other members of Whig-Clio have included Aaron Burr, Woodrow Wilson, Samuel Alito, and Mitch Daniels.

• Does the experience of the last ten years justify the country in placing confidence, on such a point, in a Whig Ministry?

• The paper war was almost entirely carried on between two sections of the Whig party.

• Since his return from exile, his influence had been generally exerted in favour of the Whig party.

• But the Whig chiefs were not men to be duped by the professions of so notorious a liar.

• Vernon was a zealous Whig, and not personally unacceptable to the chiefs of his party.