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Example sentences for "responsible government"

  • The Union of the Canadas and the establishment of Responsible Government Section 2.

  • At the same time the success of responsible government in the Colonies is, on closer examination, by no means without bearing on the problem of Ireland.

  • These proposals differ, not in degree only but in kind, from schemes for the granting of responsible government, or Gladstonian Home Rule.

  • In every formal proposal for Home Rule in Ireland, weight has been given to the above considerations, and attempts have been made to meet them by qualifying the grant of responsible Government.

  • The whole question has now been referred to the colony, which is to elect a fresh Legislative Assembly on the issue of responsible government.

  • They were beginning to demand a form of responsible government.

  • A native and barrister of Erin, he was Attorney-General of Cape Colony as far back as 1839, and held office for a long period prior to the attainment of responsible government.

  • To complicate these practical duties, the speculative problem of responsible government, long keenly canvassed in Toronto, and the peculiar conditions and methods of local politics, lay as dangerous obstacles in his path.

  • These people having for the last two or three years made a 'responsible government' their watch-word, are now extravagantly elated because the Earl of Durham has recommended that measure.

  • The phrase, responsible government, appears everywhere in the writings and speeches of those days with a wearisome iteration.

  • Ryerson replied, pointing out the fair and equitable system of Responsible Government advocated by Lord Durham, as compared with the crude one put forth by Messrs.

  • Ryerson received a letter on this subject from a well-known advocate of the principle of responsible government in Nova Scotia--Hon.

  • Head's administration is enough to make the veriest bigot a convert to "Responsible Government.

  • Yet there is a complete unanimity on one point, that nothing less than what is planned in the report will be accepted, even as the first step towards eventual complete responsible Government.

  • I draw your particular attention to the words "Progressive realization of responsible government in India, as an integral part of the British Empire.

  • Indians in every branch of administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India, as an integral part of the British Empire etc.

  • Our politics consists in this that we want some kind of Government which may be described as responsible Government according to the principles of constitutional law.

  • The anti-Charterists were composed of groups in favour of responsible Government, or of Crown Colony Government as a step to that, or of inclusion in the South Africa Union, though this last expedient had few advocates.

  • During the first session of the Canadian legislature the assembly passed certain resolutions which authoritatively expressed the views of the supporters of responsible government.

  • Many years later he wrote discriminatingly about those Dix ans au Canada (1888) that saw the establishment of responsible government.

  • His advice was followed, and within a few years all the provinces had “Responsible Government.

  • There was a long fight for the boon of responsible government, won in 1848; and the name of Joseph Howe, the Reform leader, son of a Loyalist, is renowned throughout the Dominion.

  • The collapse of the system of responsible government in the Cape Colony was complete.

  • He is warning this Government of the danger of a premature grant of responsible government to the Orange River Colony.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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