The measures which the same statesman had endeavored to carry for putting the liquor trade under the control of "local option" had turned the publicans into an organized opposition against Liberal administrators.
Prohibition by a general law does not seem to be effective; local option, on the contrary, does seem to be so.
In 1897 local optionprevails in Texas, and the blue laws of Connecticut are abolished to the extent that recreation on Sundays is no longer prohibited.
But in the opening temperance campaign the latter had come out avowedly on the side of local option, and was looked upon as one of the party's strongest speakers, while Jock had not yet declared himself.
Thornton and Archie Blair and Roderick together into his office one bright morning to enquire what could be done about getting a local option by-law for Algonquin submitted on the next municipal election day.
For he telephoned to Roderick the next morning that he could tell Ed, when he came in, that he, Archie Blair, would be hanged if he would waste any more time on local option if that was what people were saying about him.
Lawyer Ed'll have to get a local option by-law passed in Algonquin, Father," said Roderick.
Local option is consistent with American ideas of government.
This was introducing the principle of local option, and in accordance therewith township governments with town-meetings were at once introduced in the northern counties of the state, while the southern counties kept on in the old way.
The principle of local option as to government has been carried still farther in Minnesota and Dakota.
Show how the principle of local option in government has been applied in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota.
Well now, Ma'am, it'll be for the bad locality to have half the custom that comes to it turned away, because of local option!
It is a little unfortunate that the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, which allows a limited amount of compulsion in connection with continuation schools, is founded on the principle of local option.
In raising, then, the age of compulsory attendance to fifteen, we must abolish the privileges of exemption and the powers of local option, and enact that all children shall attend school full time until they reach the age of fifteen.
The half-time system should be made compulsory throughout the country; it ought not to be left to local option to decide.
Because there is no particular reason why California should not have a Local Option law, in the face of popular demand for it, a large number of very worthy citizens assumed that one would be passed.
But the votes of the San Francisco Senators defeated the Local Option bill.
I took the side and became an advocate of local option, and until the election in October, averaged one speech per day, frequently traveling all night in order to meet my engagements.
An exciting political campaign was coming off, the main issue was "local option.
Entre nous, my dear JOE, Local Option, per se, Is just an Imposture!
Local option is in force over the greater part of the continent.
Two-thirds of this province are said to be already under prohibition, by means of local option laws, and out of the forty members of the Legislature twenty-two are reputed total abstainers.
Their demands for the time are local option of prohibition by a simple majority, and no compensation.
There has been a strong movement throughout the colony for a more complete measure of local option, and several times within the last few years it has seemed as though this would be carried.
The business at the shops is carried on, not by the municipality, but by various individuals and societies, the number of traders being, however, limited by the principle of local option.
It is, as we have said, an application of the principle of local option.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "local option" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
