Corn Laws
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
A sweltering House of Commons is debating the Corn Laws, while in Chelsea Thomas and Jane Carlyle worry that their stodgy mutton and potato diet is giving them constipation.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2017
The most important moment of the 19th century for the United States took place across the ocean: the Repeal of Britain’s Corn Laws.
From Time • Jun. 30, 2017
The Irish potato famine, in which up to one million people eventually died, increased the clamour to repeal the Corn Laws and increase the food supply.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2016
Indeed, it was the first one he had seen since the Corn Laws were abolished.
From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by Rouse, W.H.D.
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