"borough" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1831 there were only 41 eligible voters and Midhurst was considered a rotten borough.
- Some rotten boroughs were once important or played a major role in England's politics, but had fallen into insignificance.
- The constituency was abolished in 1832 as a rotten borough.
- Since the previous century, there had been calls for parliamentary reform, particularly an end to the rotten boroughs.
- In fact they became the rotten boroughs of later centuries.
- They saw that the votes of the rotten boroughs had given the government its majority.
- As one of the "rotten boroughs" it was often targeted by those seeking electoral reform.
- The constituency was a rotten borough in the gift of the bishop.
- It was one of the most notoriously corrupt rotten boroughs.
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