NOUN
- self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
How To Use home rule In A Sentence
- There is overwhelming English support for the so-called "devo max" form of Scottish home rule, which means full tax-and-spending powers for Edinburgh. What the Scots can teach us about England's radical soul | Jackie Ashley
- Federacy is a constitutionalized extension of the principle of home rule that provides adequate guarantees to the weaker entity.
- He still loves his country, still loves independence and home rule, is still carrying on what you call guerilla tactics; and this very summer made a special outburst of guerillaism in the British parliament itself in the very heart of London. The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal"
- It combined moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule program with electoral functions, was hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct parliamentary control. Daily Life in the British Parliament: Understanding the Political Parties | Edwardian Promenade
- Mr. Freeman growling at the use of a Greek word, and he exclaimed, "Why can't you speak English and say Home Rule, instead of using Greek, which you don't know! Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894
- Home Rule Bill which it modified, the one thing certain was that the idea of coercing Ulster was dead. Ulster's Stand For Union
- Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of The Framework of Home Rule
- This set Mr. Freeman growling at the use of a Greek word, and he exclaimed, “Why can't you speak English and say Home Rule, instead of using Greek, which you don't know!” Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Home Rule thus shackled Liberalism to Gladstone.
- To be sure, the question of Irish Home Rule added to the tensions inside Britain, and the suffrage controversy divided Britons on an issue with both political and emotional overtones.