单词 | home rule movement |
释义 | > as lemmasHome Rule movement General attributive, as Home Rule movement, Home Rule question, etc. ΚΠ 1870 R. McDonnell Irish Nationality in 1870 (ed. 2) 65 It would seem as if there was a somewhat similar combination of opposing elements among those engaged in the ‘Home Rule’ movement. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lxii. 380 Home Rule agitation. 1886 Morning Post 17 Apr. 5/3 The Home Rule members speak confidently as to the prospect of legislation. 1886 A. Carnegie Triumphant Democr. 16 The Republic has solved the problem..by adopting the federal, or home-rule system. 1904 Times 4 Oct. 7/2 The Unionist party and the country at large will rejoice in his emphatic reference to the Home Rule question. 1920 C. J. H. Hayes Polit. & Social Hist. Mod. Europe II. xxii. 325 The Home Rule Bill encountered furious opposition at the hands of the Scotch-Irish and English-Irish inhabitants of Ulster. 1975 Times 8 July 4/5 Señor José Guijarro Satústregui, the proprietor, is known for his Basque home rule sympathies. 2003 J. Dixon in H. Coward Indian Critiques Gandhi iii. 78 In February 1919 Besant's Home Rule League split apart over the question of Gandhi's campaign of passive resistance. < as lemmas |
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