Bentham
Americannoun
noun
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Caroline Bentham, 37, who has lived with her mother Mary in Yorkshire for nearly seven years, says the experience has been really positive - although she "never imagined this would be me in my 30s".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Several homes were evacuated in Bentham Drive, off the Donegall Road, on Saturday afternoon while a house was searched.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025
"He'll have shown her a hundred fake documents and that will be one of them," says Det Con Chris Bentham who investigated the case.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023
Like Bentham, the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke also rejected the concept of popular sovereignty.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The earliest mouth piece of Jeremy Bentham in Parliament, and his "middleman" with the public, was Sir Samuel Romilly.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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