Corn Laws
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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What would it be like if, every time a white English actor received a script, it always concerned the 1846 repeal of the Corn Laws?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019
Sir Robert Peel was converted to free trade and the repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws, with not much immediate effect on “the condition of England” about which Thomas Carlyle and many others wrote.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
The Corn Laws were simply tariffs, or taxes, that Parliament imposed on foreign grain.
From Time ● Jun. 30, 2017
"There was economic dislocation after the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the introduction of the Corn Laws in 1815, which increased taxation on wheat," he said.
From BBC ● May 27, 2016
He gave up his own opinion and advised his Sovereign to do away with the Corn Laws, the repeal of which he had Parliament to vote.
From England, Canada and the Great War by Louis-Georges Desjardins
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