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Meanings of rotten borough in English

Russian
гнилые местечки
Spanish
rotten borough
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British constituency dominated by a single proprietor.

гнилые местечки
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Examples for "pocket borough"
Examples for "pocket borough"
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Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocket borough; its ruffians were his body-guard.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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The Flats, mind you; our own little pocket borough of the Flats!
The Henchman
3
O'Donnell says it probably originated in that Banagher was a pocket borough notorious for its parliamentary corruption.
The Irish Times
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Sir Robert Peel began in the pocket borough of Cashel in 1809, a coming-of-age present from his mill-owning father.
The Irish Times
5
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
1
You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfranchise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
2
Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," " nomination boroughs."
A Brief History of the United States
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Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nomination boroughs possessed by any Whig noble.
Endymion
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Take any one of those nomination boroughs, the patrons of which have conscientiously endeavoured to send fit men into this House.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
Usage of rotten borough in English
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A real-life rotten borough was Old Sarum in Wiltshire, which contained seven voters.
The Guardian
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The average price of a seat in Parliament was £5000 for a so-called ' rotten borough.'
Queen Victoria
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Lord Verney, for a seat in the privy council, was induced to give him a " rotten borough."
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen
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The same rotten borough vote took Gordon Brown to No 10: failing to fight for it did him no good.
The Guardian
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In 1809 he became of age, and entered parliament for a rotten borough openly bought for him by his father.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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It was, in fact, his policy to reduce Florence to the condition of a rotten borough: nor did this policy fail.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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In the second place, Lansmere is neither a rotten borough to be bought, nor a close borough, under one man's nomination.
"My Novel" — Volume 11
8
What is a " rotten borough"?
Problems in American Democracy
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In short, Tattleton was what the advocates of the whole Bill were apt to term a close and sometimes a rotten borough.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 / Volume 18, New Series, S...
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The electors for the borough of Southwark rejected Mr. Tierney, and he was obliged to come in for a ministerial rotten borough.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
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But although John would have supported the Bill, he was too honest to let himself be elected for a " rotten borough."
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction
12
The rotten boroughs could no longer be tolerated with safety to the state.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
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Then, again, some plutocrats buy honours by lavishing coins in stinking, rotten boroughs.
A Dream of the North Sea
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Penryn and East Retford were rotten boroughs, with only a handful of constituents.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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When the Corn Laws are gone, and the rotten boroughs, why tease about Clause IX.
The English Constitution
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It was one of the rotten boroughs swept away, and properly enough, by the Reform Bill.
Recollections of the late William Beckford / of Fonthill, Wilts ...
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