Sentence examples for supported tariffs from inspiring English sources

Lincoln similarly supported tariffs to protect northern industry – then violently at odds with the south.

Hamilton supported tariffs in order to protect a young manufacturing economy; Thomas Jefferson largely opposed them, realizing that they would empower northern businessmen over the farming, slave-holding south.

Smaller businesses, like a tube maker in Ohio or a ceramics maker in upstate New York, have supported tariffs because they say China has artificially lowered its prices and gained an unfair edge.

He supported tariff legislation that protected Massachusetts' growing industrial interests, favored renewal of the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, and opposed the Indian Removal Act.

In his reelection as the Second District congressman, Jennings supported tariff protection and internal improvements and vowed to support the presidential candidate that his constituents preferred if the election went to the House to decide the winner.

He spent most of his life as a free-trade campaigner, only to perform a volte-face in 1930 to support tariffs and then aggressively defend Britain's use of them against America in the second world war.

Protectionists, who support tariffs, quotas, and subsidies, say that, without government guardianship, American firms don't have a chance against foreign counterparts that can pay lower wages and save money by ignoring human rights and environmental concerns.

They urged Reagan to support tariffs against cheap foreign products.

She said Mr. O'Neill supported temporary tariffs that would give the industry time to slim down and become globally competitive.

Bryan lost by a wide margin to Republican William McKinley, a conservative who supported high tariffs and money based only on gold.

Republicans supported high tariffs as a way to protect American jobs and increase prosperity.