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Example sentences for "laws were"

  • Laws were to originate with the latter, and the chief duty of the assembly was to approve such legislation.

  • Subsequently a number of laws were made, but with the exception of an act of attainder against Clayborne, their titles only remain.

  • The town customs and bye-laws were drawn up in 1561 by “the Mayor and Council with four of every occupation in the aforesaid city, for and in the name of the whole citizens (Carlisle Mun.

  • Laws were made by the “mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses, with all the commonalty, by a whole assent and consent.

  • In the sixteenth century when the victuallers’ laws were no longer enforced to any extent, other measures were found necessary to keep a constant supply of corn in the bigger towns.

  • Laws were sold at Albany to the highest bidder.

  • No laws were in existence compelling the purchaser to be a bona fide settler.

  • Ten tables of laws were proposed by them, and ratified by the people at the comitia centuriata.

  • In these, laws were enacted, magistrates elected, and criminals tried.

  • In his speech he remarked that the purpose and principle of the corn-laws were protection to the landed interest.

  • If the Corn-laws were abolished, the working man WOULD SAVE 31/2d.

  • But if the corn-laws were not, what was the cause?

  • Now mark--"during the whole of this period the corn-laws were in operation; how then can they be fairly or honestly assigned as the cause of the present manufacturing and commercial distress?

  • In the eighth and tenth of this king, therefore, laws were enacted, limiting the electors to such as possessed forty shillings a year in land, free from all burdens within the county.

  • Bye-laws were made to regulate and unify the administration of sanitary laws by local authorities.

  • Accordingly, soon after the passing of the Sanitary Act, bye-laws were adopted by the Board, and sanctioned by the Secretary of State for the regulation of sub-let houses.

  • Act--all which bye-laws were to be enforced by the Vestries and District Boards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could endure; cruel death; ever knew; farm near; great difference; home range; just proportion; laws against; laws made; laws relating; laws were; least equal; little movement; live upon; living rooms; minutes west; other observers; perform their; possible from; several occasions; spiritual sense; supreme good; vocal cords; white sauce; whose heart