Whigs in the PONS Dictionary

Whigs Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

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Typical conventions are an opportunity for the presumptive nominee to present themselves to the world and for party big-whigs to rail against the opposition.
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He lost his colonelcy in 1690, the church party being once more in a majority, but was re-elected on the ascendency of the whigs in 1691.
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We are all of us exultant and unrepentant whigs.
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In 1712, with the tories in power, he began to court the opposition whigs with laudatory verse.
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They were about one hundred and fifty strong, while the whigs numbered only about sixty.
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