Examples of 'corn laws' in a sentence

Meaning of "corn laws"

The Corn Laws were a series of British laws enacted between 1815 and 1846, which imposed restrictions and tariffs on imported grain. They were designed to protect domestic cereal farmers by ensuring higher prices for their products. The laws were repealed due to widespread opposition from consumers and the economic benefits of free trade

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Dialogue on the corn laws.
Corn Laws enhanced the profits and political power associated with land ownership.
Take for example the case of England and the corn laws.
The Corn Laws debate will go on for days.
The purchase of food for destitute districts would open the question of Corn Laws.
The Corn Laws further aggravated a growing unemployment problem.
He was involved in agitation against the Corn Laws.
The goal of Corn Laws is to keep grain prices high.
Done in by the repeal of the Corn Laws.
The interventionism of the Corn Laws greatly lowered the output of farm production.
It was erected to mark the repeal of the Corn Laws.
The repeal of the Corn Laws opened British agriculture to foreign competition.
In parliament he notably spoke against the Corn Laws.
What other injury did the Corn Laws unleash upon the people?
I gave my word as a gentleman to uphold the Corn Laws.

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The repeal of the Corn Laws steadied prices, though agriculture remained prosperous.
He is known as a revisionist historian of the Repeal of the Corn Laws.
He voted for revision of the Corn Laws and Income tax.
He advocated parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws.
Who supports the Corn Laws that make bread unaffordable, for my misfortunes.
A law of regressive human action tells us the Corn Laws are regressive.
The Corn Laws enforced a very high " protective " tariff against the importation of wheat into England.
There were MPs who opposed the passing of the Corn Laws.
The Corn Laws debate will go on for days . My apologies.
British bureaucratic interventionism was not limited to imposing the Corn Laws upon the British people.
Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
Let us look at another regressive effect the British Corn Laws had upon the common people.
Britain begins the repeal of preferential tariffs to the colonies, starting with the Corn Laws.
What the corn laws were?
Supporting the suppression of the Corn Laws.
The Corn Laws were passed in 1815 to restrict wheat imports and guarantee British farmers ' incomes.
Immigration controls are the new Corn Laws.
Enacted in 1815, the Corn Laws were tariffs placed on imported food and grain into Britain.
They must abolish the Corn Laws.
Mar 1815 Corn Laws are introduced to protect British agriculture.
It is also important to note the impact of the British Corn Laws on Canada.
If you have studied English history you will remember the British Corn Laws.
Is not that exactly what the Corn Laws do, Sir Robert?
However, he resisted further parliamentary reform and repeal of the corn laws.
He quotes Bright on the fight against the Corn Laws ( grain import tariffs ),.
Undeterred, he gave a simple and forceful exposition of his position on the Corn Laws.
Britain 's domestic agriculture and farmers were ruined by the loss of the Corn Laws protectionism.
Peel reversed his position and in 1846 called for the repeal of the Corn Laws.
It 's nowt to do with corn laws.
For example, that England would have gained by the abolition of the Corn Laws just.
Although government in Britain had regulated the prices of grain, the Corn Laws originated in 1815.
Like Wellington, he was in favour of repealing the Corn Laws.
In England this system looks at the removal of Corn Laws in 1864.
A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws.
Roberts advocated free trade, opposing the Corn Laws.

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