Intolerable Acts

Cultural  

1. Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. Although the acts were intended to check colonial opposition to Britain, they only inflamed it.

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Example Sentences

"We believe them, we know that these intolerable acts have left their mark and we stand by them," it added.

From BBC

Americans like Washington were growing more upset over the injustice of taxes and other “Intolerable Acts.”

From Literature

Colonists had a nickname for these new laws: the Intolerable Acts.

From National Geographic

Delegates likened the Intolerable Acts to “being degraded into a state of servitude” and expressed their grievances because “silence would be disloyalty.”

From National Geographic

He said they will be sent for retraining, “because of the constant and intolerable acts of use and abuse of restraint procedures, which were poorly applied, erroneous and incorrect.”

From Washington Times