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Example sentences for "parliamentary reform"

  • He believed in Parliamentary Reform, in Catholic Emancipation, in the relief of Dissenters, in Free Trade.

  • It passed resolutions, appointed committees, and acted as a permanent body of political delegates is accustomed to act, in order to further the cause of Parliamentary Reform.

  • John Bright occasionally spoke on Parliamentary Reform, and denounced government by aristocracy with a contempt as hearty as that of Paine.

  • The government, whose members had been the champions of parliamentary reform, was soon disregarded by the triumphant party, while its old opponents never forgot it.

  • Mr. Trevillian, and Justice Goodford, likely men to bring about a Parliamentary Reform?

  • Even when half spent, the forces that had been gathering for many years in the direction of parliamentary reform, and had at last achieved more than one immense result, rolled heavily forward against the church.

  • Some dreamed that Palmerston and Disraeli might form a government on the basis of resistance to parliamentary reform.

  • Along with the anxieties of the Eastern question, ministers were divided upon the subject of parliamentary reform.

  • Was it in desiring that Colonel Napier might be "struck off the half-pay list," for having made a speech at Devizes in favor of Parliamentary Reform?

  • In strong opposition to the Old Whig policy there had grown up the party of New Whigs, bent upon bringing about some measure of parliamentary reform, whereby the House of Commons might truly represent the people of Great Britain.

  • For if the American position, that there should be no taxation without representation, were once to be granted, then it would straightway become necessary to admit the principles of parliamentary reform.

  • Pitt made no more attempts at parliamentary reform, and for the next seven years the question was of little importance in English politics.

  • The most liberal statesman did not think that season propitious for schemes of parliamentary reform; and the most conservative statesman could not pretend that there was any occasion for gagging bills and suspensions of the Habeas Corpus Act.

  • In office Pitt had redeemed the pledges which he had, at his entrance into public life, given to the supporters of parliamentary reform.

  • Pitt, now seated on the opposition bench, brought the question of parliamentary reform a second time under the consideration of the Commons.

  • Sir Francis Burdett and John Cam Hobhouse, jointly grasping a formidable weapon, are enlisted under the standard of “Parliamentary Reform.

  • Our readers cannot but know, it was by the means of a nostrum, emphatically called a Specific, that Mr. Dundas so long contrived to prevent the constitutional lues of a Parliamentary Reform.

  • Fitzpatrick one hundred guineas to fifty guineas, that within two years from this date some measure is adopted in Parliament which shall be (bonĂ¢ fide) considered as the adoption of a Parliamentary Reform.

  • In the spring of this year was established the Society of "The Friends of the People," for the express purpose of obtaining a Parliamentary Reform.

  • Accordingly, the question of Parliamentary Reform, from the first moment of its agitation, found in him a most decided opponent.

  • Burdett applied for a plan of parliamentary reform.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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