Sentence examples for coercion acts from inspiring English sources

In 1774 the first county convention to denounce the "Coercion Acts" (which deprived Massachusetts of its charter and the right to choose its own magistrate) met there, followed by the convening of the first and second Massachusetts provincial congresses.

Allsopp was in agreement with the Conservative policy, which was to maintain full governmental control over Ireland, and pass further Coercion Acts to reduce lawlessness in that country.

To suppress the movement, the British government passed the Coercion Act of 1887, under which O'Brien was jailed again.

The Land Act did not go far enough to satisfy Parnell, who continued to make speeches couched in violent language, and, after a coercion act was passed by Parliament in the face of Irish obstructionism, he was arrested.

It lost a vote over the Irish Coercion Act, legislation meant to curtail the violence erupting across Ireland.

Jane was in contact with Irish Land League leaders, including John Dillon and William O'Brien, and lobbied for the release of the latter after his imprisonment under the Coercion Act of 1881.

William Edward Forster argued that a Coercion Act, which would punish those participating in events like those at Lough Mask, and which would include the suspension of Habeas Corpus, be introduced before any Land Act.

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Then, in Big Momma's House 2, he dons the same disguise – albeit with much less coercion – to act as a nanny in the house of a man thought to be a dangerous hacker.

The secretary rightly dismissed the senator's boot as an "attempted coercion of public acts" and told the Senate to forget about the raise.