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old-line party

British  

noun

  1. either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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For good measure, they also turned thumbs down on brindled Governor Walter S. Goodland, 83, whose crotchety independence has irked many an old-line party man.

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"Computerji," as he became known, long ago found that he and his privileged circle of technology lovers were not equal to the task of budging old-line party pros and the bureaucracy-infested Industrial Raj.

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For the old-line party loyalists, Lyndon Johnson came out at his fightingest.

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Nine out of ten delegates had never attended a convention before, and even Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, a staunch symbol of the old-line party machine, found himself without a seat.

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He must be acceptable to old-line party leaders.

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