英语词汇“pocket borough”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Some ancient boroughs had entirely disappeared, leaving pocket boroughs owned by a single person, who chose the representative himself. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

Even in the House of Commons, most seats are pocket boroughs, controlled by those who fund the major parties and establish the limits of political action. After 800 years, the barons are back in control of Britain 2012-07-16T19:30:01Z

For in every bookseller's window caricatures of the "Last of the Boroughbridges," as the wits called him, after the pocket borough for which he sat, were plentiful as blackberries. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z

It was a pocket borough, and there is nothing to show that Ricardo ever visited his constituents; but this did not prevent him from strongly denouncing the system of election. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z

Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament soon after attaining his majority as member for the pocket borough of Bletchingly in Surrey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

The price he paid was compensation in money to the owners of pocket boroughs and profuse grants of peerages. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z

Pitt continued at his post; and at the general election which took place during the year he even accepted a nomination for the duke’s pocket borough of Aldborough. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"

LaFontaine was peaceably returned for his 'pocket borough,' the fourth riding of York, but the candidacy of Baldwin for Hastings had another issue. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841

He entered the House of Commons from Portarlington, a pocket borough in Ireland, and was influential in the discussions on resumption. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

Rotten or pocket boroughs were not only nurseries of professional statesmanship, but a back door through which interests, whose direct representation was impossible, found access to Parliament. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886

Foster, who made the greatest speech in Parliament against the union, received seventy-five hundred pounds for his half share of a pocket borough. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z

Pitt was the grandson of a wealthy governor of Madras, who had entered Parliament in 1735, as member for one of his father's pocket boroughs. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767

The resignation of the two leaders involved a new election, and Baldwin was defeated in his own 'pocket borough' by Hartman, a Clear Grit. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841

And in this there is great cunning, for the organisers hold pocket boroughs among the Swiss, and Bulgarians, and Servians and other European kidlings of the Balkans. A Tramp's Notebook

Nothing but the near approach of revolution in 1832 availed to shatter the system of pocket boroughs in Great Britain; and then their owners were sent empty away. William Pitt and the Great War

Yet in most cases the old-fashioned principle still prevailed which in practice confined the Parliamentary representation of the country to the members who sat for the counties, and for what were called the pocket boroughs. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV

Gladstone first became a member by presentation to a pocket borough, and later spoke in praise of this method of bringing young men of promise into Parliament. The Rise of the Democracy

The Flats, mind you; our own little pocket borough of the Flats! The Henchman

In the eighteenth century it was a pocket borough, returning two Members to Parliament, and was the property of the Selwyn family. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

Now reformers were moved by a wider enthusiasm for the rights of humanity, and sought not merely to abolish pocket boroughs and sinecures, but to level up the poor and level down the wealthy. William Pitt and the Great War

Before the British Reform Bill of 1832 much play was made of pocket boroughs of twenty or thirty electors. India, Old and New

Fox first entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Midhurst, and Sir George Trevelyan has described how it took place. The Rise of the Democracy

Yet for generations Lisburn has been a pocket borough, and the nominee of the landlord, often a total stranger, was returned as a matter of course. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times

Even now, with the help of the Austens, and his father's purse, a pocket borough might be secured, but it was not enough—he must enter with eclat. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors

In pre-Reform days it was a pocket borough, returning two members. Somerset

I grew so rich that I was sent By a pocket borough into Parliament; I always voted at my Party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. Songs of a Savoyard

Let 'em quash every pocket borough to-morrow, and bring in every mushroom town in the kingdom—they'll only increase the expense of getting into Parliament. Middlemarch

Tillietudlem was no poor pocket borough to be disposed of, this way or that way, according to the caprice or venal call of some aristocrat. The Three Clerks

It was impossible that the Peerage could long survive the Reform Bill, for it took from the great families their pocket boroughs, and so much of their influence. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)

Too often a political office was granted from a pocket borough in which a restricted electorate could be bought at a trifling expense. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come

Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," "nomination boroughs." A Brief History of the United States

Of course, elections in these small or "pocket boroughs," as they were called, were almost always determined by the corrupt influence of the crown or of the resident lords. General History for Colleges and High Schools

The condition of the representation, the rotten boroughs, as those in decay were called, and the pocket boroughs, a name applied to those which were the property of individuals, opened the way for shameless corruption. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century

Dunchester became my pocket borough, so much so, indeed, that at the three elections which occurred before the last of which I have to tell no one even ventured to contest the seat against me. Doctor Therne

The West and Southwest, the pocket boroughs of the new Administration, were now deep in land speculation and clamorous for financial expedients which the Constitution banned. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court

There were scores of pocket boroughs in which their nominees were as certain of election as peers were of their seats in the House of Lords. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence

Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocket borough; its ruffians were his body-guard. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

The Reform Bill of 1832 invaded the privileges of the landed aristocracy by destroying in some measure their control of the House of Commons through the pocket boroughs. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century

In spite of pocket boroughs, family influence, and flagrant corruption, the reformers came back to Parliament with their majority increased to fully one hundred. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century

Parliament was the natural place for a peer's son in those days of pocket boroughs, and into the House of Commons he went as Lord Ashley at the age of twenty-five. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century

单词	pocket borough
例句	pocket borough Some ancient boroughs had entirely disappeared, leaving pocket boroughs owned by a single person, who chose the representative himself. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Even in the House of Commons, most seats are pocket boroughs, controlled by those who fund the major parties and establish the limits of political action. After 800 years, the barons are back in control of Britain 2012-07-16T19:30:01Z For in every bookseller's window caricatures of the "Last of the Boroughbridges," as the wits called him, after the pocket borough for which he sat, were plentiful as blackberries. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z It was a pocket borough, and there is nothing to show that Ricardo ever visited his constituents; but this did not prevent him from strongly denouncing the system of election. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament soon after attaining his majority as member for the pocket borough of Bletchingly in Surrey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The price he paid was compensation in money to the owners of pocket boroughs and profuse grants of peerages. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Pitt continued at his post; and at the general election which took place during the year he even accepted a nomination for the duke’s pocket borough of Aldborough. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" LaFontaine was peaceably returned for his 'pocket borough,' the fourth riding of York, but the candidacy of Baldwin for Hastings had another issue. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 He entered the House of Commons from Portarlington, a pocket borough in Ireland, and was influential in the discussions on resumption. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy Rotten or pocket boroughs were not only nurseries of professional statesmanship, but a back door through which interests, whose direct representation was impossible, found access to Parliament. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Foster, who made the greatest speech in Parliament against the union, received seventy-five hundred pounds for his half share of a pocket borough. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Pitt was the grandson of a wealthy governor of Madras, who had entered Parliament in 1735, as member for one of his father's pocket boroughs. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The resignation of the two leaders involved a new election, and Baldwin was defeated in his own 'pocket borough' by Hartman, a Clear Grit. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 And in this there is great cunning, for the organisers hold pocket boroughs among the Swiss, and Bulgarians, and Servians and other European kidlings of the Balkans. A Tramp's Notebook Nothing but the near approach of revolution in 1832 availed to shatter the system of pocket boroughs in Great Britain; and then their owners were sent empty away. William Pitt and the Great War Yet in most cases the old-fashioned principle still prevailed which in practice confined the Parliamentary representation of the country to the members who sat for the counties, and for what were called the pocket boroughs. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV Gladstone first became a member by presentation to a pocket borough, and later spoke in praise of this method of bringing young men of promise into Parliament. The Rise of the Democracy The Flats, mind you; our own little pocket borough of the Flats! The Henchman In the eighteenth century it was a pocket borough, returning two Members to Parliament, and was the property of the Selwyn family. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Now reformers were moved by a wider enthusiasm for the rights of humanity, and sought not merely to abolish pocket boroughs and sinecures, but to level up the poor and level down the wealthy. William Pitt and the Great War Before the British Reform Bill of 1832 much play was made of pocket boroughs of twenty or thirty electors. India, Old and New Fox first entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Midhurst, and Sir George Trevelyan has described how it took place. The Rise of the Democracy Yet for generations Lisburn has been a pocket borough, and the nominee of the landlord, often a total stranger, was returned as a matter of course. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Even now, with the help of the Austens, and his father's purse, a pocket borough might be secured, but it was not enough—he must enter with eclat. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors In pre-Reform days it was a pocket borough, returning two members. Somerset I grew so rich that I was sent By a pocket borough into Parliament; I always voted at my Party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. Songs of a Savoyard Let 'em quash every pocket borough to-morrow, and bring in every mushroom town in the kingdom—they'll only increase the expense of getting into Parliament. Middlemarch Tillietudlem was no poor pocket borough to be disposed of, this way or that way, according to the caprice or venal call of some aristocrat. The Three Clerks It was impossible that the Peerage could long survive the Reform Bill, for it took from the great families their pocket boroughs, and so much of their influence. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Too often a political office was granted from a pocket borough in which a restricted electorate could be bought at a trifling expense. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," "nomination boroughs." A Brief History of the United States Of course, elections in these small or "pocket boroughs," as they were called, were almost always determined by the corrupt influence of the crown or of the resident lords. General History for Colleges and High Schools The condition of the representation, the rotten boroughs, as those in decay were called, and the pocket boroughs, a name applied to those which were the property of individuals, opened the way for shameless corruption. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Dunchester became my pocket borough, so much so, indeed, that at the three elections which occurred before the last of which I have to tell no one even ventured to contest the seat against me. Doctor Therne The West and Southwest, the pocket boroughs of the new Administration, were now deep in land speculation and clamorous for financial expedients which the Constitution banned. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court There were scores of pocket boroughs in which their nominees were as certain of election as peers were of their seats in the House of Lords. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocket borough; its ruffians were his body-guard. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War The Reform Bill of 1832 invaded the privileges of the landed aristocracy by destroying in some measure their control of the House of Commons through the pocket boroughs. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century In spite of pocket boroughs, family influence, and flagrant corruption, the reformers came back to Parliament with their majority increased to fully one hundred. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Parliament was the natural place for a peer's son in those days of pocket boroughs, and into the House of Commons he went as Lord Ashley at the age of twenty-five. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
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