home rule

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Recent Examples of home rule Foreign policy played a secondary, but still important, role in the demise of the Liberal Party when the question of home rule for Ireland led Ulster Unionists to feel betrayed. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025 In the meantime, Park Ridge being a home rule municipality, the north suburb is taking on the issue. Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025 Associate Court of Appeals Judge Jenny Rivera, the lone dissenter to Thursday’s ruling, wrote in her own opinion that the city’s home rule ability to have decision-making power over local matters should’ve trumped the state constitutional restriction. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025 Foreign policy played a secondary, but still important, role in the demise of the Liberal Party when the question of home rule for Ireland led Ulster Unionists to feel betrayed. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for home rule
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pure democracy
Noun
  • In their rankings, 100 is a pure democracy and zero indicates a dictatorship.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Which is what a pure democracy is. House representatives and senators are now majority-elected.
    Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 14 Oct. 2024

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