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Conservative faction left in party raised barrier
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old guard
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A (comparatively) conservative, reactionary faction that is more unwilling to accept new ideas than their peers are. 2 Collectively, the members of a team who have been a long time in a place.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Old Guard was an Australian anti-communist organisation which was started in 1930, although its exact origins are disputed. At least one historian has claimed that it existed as early as 1917. It has been described as a paramilitary, quasi-official, ...
Usage examples of old guard.
So it only made sense that the commander of the Old Guard would be the same.
By the turn of the century, more than three-quarters of the old guard will be gone.
There were no more fireworks from the Hill, so he had to assume that the Old Guard major was raising one with absent companions.
A gang of newcomers were making trouble in the city, claiming territory for themselves, thinking that the old guard were getting soft and couldn't protect their own.