It was looking certain that the Tories would be re-elected, and the only key issue that the media were still speculating by the end of 1982 was whether it would be Labour or the Alliance who formed the next opposition.

By the end of the Revolution, most Tories had fled Pownal for safety among the United Empire Loyalists who resettled in Canada.

Following Mrs Thatcher's election win, she brought the post-war consensus to an end and made drastic changes to trade union laws ( most notably the regulation that unions had to hold a ballot among members before calling strikes ) and as a result strikes were at their lowest level for 30 years by the time of the 1983 general election, which the Tories won by a landslide.

However, in the Parliament of 1710 the Tories had gained control of the House of Commons, and they wished for an end to Great Britain's participation in a European war ; Queen Anne and her advisors had also come to the same position.

In one of the great upsets in Canadian political history, the Progressive Conservative Party ( also known as " PCs " or " Tories "), led by John Diefenbaker, brought an end to 22 years of Liberal rule, as the Tories were able to form a minority government.

He performed further service in partisan warfare against Tories in North Carolina, service that continued to the end of the war.

Traditionally, the Tories have done better among Protestant voters while Liberals have had more support from Catholics-accordingly, the Conservatives have tended to do slightly better in the easternmost region of the island which is more Protestant while the Liberals have tended to do better on the western end where there are more Catholics.

Labour leader John Smith died of a heart attack in May 1994 and was succeeded by Tony Blair, who continued the modernisation process of the party which began under Smith's predecessor Neil Kinnock, and by the end of that year the opinion polls were showing Labour support as high as 60 %-putting them more than 30 points ahead of the Tories.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

In the end after three days of riots 1, 139 looms were destroyed, 4 rioters and 2 bystanders shot dead by the authorities in Rossendale and 41 rioters sentenced to death ( all of whose sentences were commuted ).

However, players with strong smashes will sometimes use the shot to create openings, and players commonly smash weak returns to try to end rallies.

An " upshot " or " yard on " shot involves delivering the bowl with an extra degree of weight ( often referred to as " controlled " weight or " rambler "), enough to displace the jack or disturb other bowls in the head without killing the end.

During any shot, any disc that falls completely into the recessed central " 20 " hole ( aka the " Toad ") is removed from play, and counts as twenty points for the owner of the disc at the end of the round, assuming the shot is valid.

At the end of the second season, an inebriated Johnny LaRue is given his very own crane by Santa Claus, implying he would be able to have a crane shot whenever he wanted it.

* Bore: The hollow cylinder bored down the center of the cannon, including the base of the bore or bottom of the bore, the nearest end of the bore into which the ordnance ( wadding, shot, etc.

Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

However, the Vitagraph film-makers continued to be a little uneasy with the device, as a true POV shot is introduced by an explanatory intertitle, " What they saw in the house across the court " in Larry Trimble's Jean and the Waif, made at the end of 1910.

2011 saw the release of Michel Hazanavicius ' The Artist, a silent film shot in black and white that reflected on the end of Hollywood's silent era.

The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western " Dollars " trilogy is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: The shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense ; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end ; the music builds.

Until the end of the silent era, several inches were cut from the start of each shot developed to test it.

* All shots which employed a life-size replica of Godzilla's foot ( mostly seen near the end ); only one shot of the big foot crushing parked cars during the nuclear power plant scene was kept.

Toward the end of his life, Brood vowed to abstain from most drugs, reducing his drug use to alcohol and a daily shot of speed (" 2 grams per day ").

Fabian usually appeared in a cameo shot towards the end of each episode.

In the end though, it was the. 32-40 single shot rifle that became the dean of match shooters, as the recoil from the. 38-55 took its toll after hundreds of rounds had been fired during a match.

If the lob is not hit deeply enough into the other court, however, an opponent near the net may then hit an overhead smash, a hard, serve-like shot, to try to end the point.

The end scene, of THX standing before the sunset, was shot at Port Hueneme, California, by a second unit of ( additional uncredited photographer ) Caleb Deschanel and Matthew Robbins, who played THX in this long shot.

The film's final battle, originally scheduled to be shot at the end of summer, was shot in February in near-freezing temperatures.

But Gretzky himself dispelled the rumor at the end of one grueling season with the Edmonton Oilers, in which he had suffered a mild concussion as a result of what writer Michael Benson called a " cheap shot " from Winnipeg Jets star centre Dale Hawerchuk.

At the end of the song, which coincided with the third ( i. e. last ) English warning shot, Tromp fired a full broadside thereby beginning the Battle of Goodwin Sands and the First Anglo-Dutch War.

On 5 October 1918, he was shot down and killed near Vouziers, Ardennes, a month before the end of the war and one day before his 30th birthday.

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.

But it could also be looked at from the other end of the spectrum.

`` I thought the entire report was going to be confidential from beginning to end.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

Whatever land you can see here, from the North tip end of Elliott Key looking southward, belongs to someone -- people who have title to the land.

That Aristotelean-Thomistic principle experienced a thorough going-over from a number of the participants, but in the end the concept came to reassert itself.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.

Plans vary from the `` talking stage '' to establishing special committees to accomplish this end.

I again proposed a reduction in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve -- from their present strengths of 400,000 and 300,000, respectively, to 360,000 and 270,000 by the end of the fiscal year 1961.

There should be 10'' '' between the two parallel members and each should be 1'' '' from an end of the long piece.

Drill a No. 50 hole 1-1/4'' '' from one end and tap 2-56.

Scribe a line across the bar on the other end of the tappet, 1/4'' '' plus half the diameter of the 2-56 screw head ( about 5/64'' '' ) away from the frame edge.

Center-punch and drill the No. 31 hole 7/16'' '' from one end of the bar.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

And it's far from the end for plastics.

Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube.

or, to put the same thing in physiological terms, that the performance-capacity of the tactual apparatus, from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain, -- that is, from one end to the other -- was unimpaired ''.