Alton

[awl-tn]

noun

1. a city in southwestern Illinois.

2. a first name.

Example Sentences

The British theme park giant owns a wide range of attractions across the UK, including Alton Towers, Legoland Windsor, Madame Tussauds, Thorpe Park and Chessington World of Adventures.

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Separately, O'Flaherty has written to the Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee Sarah Owen and Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights Lord Alton to warn against creating legal uncertainty for transgender people as the UK government implements a Supreme Court judgement made earlier this year.

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Lincoln’s principal inspiration for the lecture flowed from the murders referred to in the book’s title—three recent acts of racial violence, all “revolting to humanity”: the mass-lynching of blacks and gamblers in Vicksburg, Miss., in 1835; the fatal mob attack on Elijah P. Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor, in Alton, Ill., in 1837; and not least the public burning to death, in 1836, of Francis McIntosh, a free black sailor who stabbed to death a white deputy sheriff in St. Louis after a wrongful arrest.

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Other UK theme parks such as Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and Legoland Windsor are usually closed in winter months.

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Lord Alton of Liverpool, chair of the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights, told the BBC that Sai's case "illustrates the extensive reach of China's campaign of transnational repression", and that he would support Sai's bid for asylum.

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