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Significados de rotten and pocket boroughs em inglês

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

гнилые местечки
Sinônimos
Examples for "rotten borough"
Examples for "rotten borough"
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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