Bonar Law

British  

/ ˈbɒnə lɔː /

noun

1. See Law

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Example Sentences

But Bonar Law had tapped into a deep current of upper-class and working-class nationalism, and the exhausted government — bearing very little resemblance to a “Revolutionary Committee” — responded with a series of craven capitulations, while still trying to hammer out the irrelevant details of a home rule bill that would never happen.

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Would Bonar Law lead or authorize a coup against the Asquith government?

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Along the way, Carson acquired a powerful ally who gleefully poured fuel on the flames: Andrew Bonar Law, a right-wing firebrand with Ulster Presbyterian roots who became Conservative Party leader late in 1911 and pushed the previously staid Tories “to embrace a policy of revolution without parallel in modern British history,” in Ronan Fanning’s words.

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Bonar Law was both a true believer in the Ulster cause and a shrewd political operator, who correctly perceived that home rule could be used to bring down Asquith and the Liberals.

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Andrew Bonar Law's infamous Blenheim Palace speech of July 1912 bears comparison with the most inflammatory things Donald Trump has ever said.

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