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单词 whig-controlled
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Whig-controlled
b. As a modifier, with past participles, with the sense ‘by Whigs; with Whigs’, as in Whig-appointed, Whig-controlled, Whig-ridden, Whig-supported, etc. (adjectives).
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1832 B. Disraeli Let. 26 Dec. (1982) I. 314 The electors..agreed in the necessity of exerting themselves to prevent their town from becoming a Whig-ridden, a nomination borough.
1859 London Rev. Oct. 256 One would have thought that this trade had exploded for ever with the Whig-appointed Lord of the Treasury.
1966 F. P. Van der Voorde H. Fielding i. 13 The country had been precipitated into the vortex of continental war, which in the opinion of many, had been unduly protracted to serve the Whig funded interest.
1993 R. R. Dykstra Bright Radical Star iv. 71 In the 1846/7 general assembly, the Whig-controlled house resolved that [etc.]
2004 Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 37 258 The ‘Roast Beef of England’ was a rallying cry for Tories opposing the Whig-supported importation of foreign foodstuffs.
2018 Bristol Post (Nexis) 1 May His plans were rejected by the Whig-dominated Corporation.
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