NOUN
- self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
How To Use home rule In A Sentence
- Should "landlordism" in Ireland be supplanted by home rule? Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
- Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air: Would we have been better off without Home Rule?
- Those who wanted issues resolved in a constitutional manner formed a Home Rule party in 1870.
- Welsh nationalism was about neither land nor Home Rule but was founded on the Nonconformist campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church, which was maintained by the payment of tithes.
- Andrew RT Davies: Well no I'm just making the point that there are a couple of Home Rule O'Tooles here in Wales who want to er this independence agenda it's showing up as ten percent in the polls I believe you can't try and wipe out history you have to mark history and there are important events that have happened in history in Wales and I would suggest the investiture is one of those events. Archive 2008-10-01
- Tom Gallagher is a longtime student of Scottish politics and a sympathiser with Scottish home rule who now teaches at Bradford University.
- This point deserves attention, not for the sake of the miserable and ruinous advantage which is obtained by taunting an adversary in controversy with inconsistency till you drive him to improve his logical position by increasing the exactingness of his demands, but because the advocates of Home Rule (honestly enough, no doubt) confuse the matter under discussion by a strange kind of intellectual shuffle. England's Case Against Home Rule
- Nevertheless, for gradualists, who hoped that devolution would provide a workable and stable form of home rule that could endure for years before coming under question, recent developments have been sobering.
- Sharing threats, some of which resonate even to this day, and which has been revealed later, would bring them face to face with IRA men fighting for Irish home rule .
- The question of state interference in city affairs versus home rule was long a major issue.
