单词 | anti-corn-law league |
释义 | > as lemmasAnti-Corn-Law League c. In recent times often adopted in the names of certain associations of individuals or of societies for some common object. Anti-Corn-Law League: a political association formed in 1838 to procure the abolition of the existing Corn Laws. Football League: see quot. 18992. Land, Primrose, Reform League: see these nouns. Similarly, Baseball League, Cricket League. Also elliptically League. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > other types of association, society, or organization invisible college1647 rota1660 working party1744 free association1761 working committee1821 Ethical Society1822 bar association1824 league1846 congress1870 tiger1874 cult1875 Daughters of the American Revolution1890 community group1892 housing association1898 working party1902 development agency1910 affinity group1915 propaganda machine1916 funding body1922 collective1925 Ku-Klux1930 network1946 NGO1946 production brigade1950 umbrella organization1950 plantation1956 think-tank1958 think group1961 team1990 society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Anti-Corn-Law League league1846 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > group of teams league1879 conference1905 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > league or division Football League1889 table1896 premier league1898 division1899 1846 Duke of Wellington in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiv. 51 There were no persons in that assembly capable of sustaining in debate the existing Corn Law against Cobden and the League. 1879 Chicago Tribune 17 May 7/5 A misunderstanding has arisen as to the condition of the Cleveland Club, and its inability to play, which will end in an appeal to the League. 1883 Catholic Dict. (1896) 554 The Catholic Total Abstinence League of the Cross was founded in 1873. 1883 Whitaker's Almanack 227/2 National Sunday League,..National Temperance League. 1889 Whitaker's Almanack 564/1 A Football League has been formed, including twelve of the leading North and Midland clubs... These clubs play a sort of American tournament for the League Championship. 1891 Amer. Cricket Ann. 10 The organisation of the Metropolitan District Cricket League was certainly a move in the right direction. 1892 Athletic News Cricket Ann. 51 Lancashire Cricket League... This organisation..has done for cricket what the League has done for football. 1892 J. A. Leighton (title) Leighton's North-Western Rugby Football League card. Season 1892–93. 1894 Athletic News 5 Nov. 1/2 The position of Notts in the League is occasioning very considerable anxiety. 1899 Ld. Aldenham Colloquy on Currency (1900) Pref. 9 They even proposed to hear me, as president of the Bimetallic League. 1899 G. O. Smith in M. Shearman et al. Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) 170 It was at this stage Mr. MacGregor..brought forward his idea of a football union between the leading clubs of the day... The following twelve clubs were invited to form a union between themselves... Thus was the League formed. 1899 G. O. Smith in M. Shearman et al. Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) 171 The League was formed chiefly for the purpose of insuring a series of first-class games [etc.]. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IX. 622/1 In 1888 the Football League, a combination of professional clubs of the north and midlands of England, was formed. 1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow ii. 13 All the players in all the teams of the League. 1930 J. Williamson Amer. Hotel 293 The Broadway Central has been the scene of several noteworthy episodes. It was there that the National League was organized in 1876. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 187/2 A number of [cricket] clubs form themselves into a league; each plays all the others in turn, and the championship of the league falls to the one which wins the most matches. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 292/2 The first league, the Football League, was then formed [in 1888]. 1951 Football Record (Melbourne) 8 Sept. 12 Approximately 300 visiting schoolboys were recently entertained by the League at the Melbourne ground. 1957 Encycl. Brit. III. 159/2 The professional [baseball] clubs usually compete as members of leagues. 1960 B. Liddell My Soccer Story vii. 48 For years the Football Association and the Football League have been trying to help players to prepare for the new life ahead when they finish with football. 1969 Listener 20 Mar. 384/2 I cannot believe he would still maintain that Rugby League backs ‘usually run across instead of straight’. 1973 News of the World Football Ann. 1973–4 78 (heading) Football League—Division One. 1973 News of the World Football Ann. 1973–4 100 Re-elected to Division [One] when League was extended after the war. 1974 Daily Record (Glasgow) 15 Apr. 27/2 Yesterday Stein admitted, ‘The League is almost won. We know that!’ 1974 Guardian 1 Aug. 22/8 It is not possible to be wrapped up in all the competitions and win them as the League exists at present. < as lemmas |
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