| 单词 | local veto |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocal veto local veto n. (also with capital initials) now historical prohibition of the sale of alcohol in a particular district, under the system of local option (local option n.). ΚΠ 1868 Birmingham Daily Post 7 Oct. 3/1 The following are the points on which an amendment of the [licensing] law is required... Diminution of the present facilities for obtaining new licenses..by giving to owner and occupiers of adjacent property a local veto.] 1869 Wrexham & Denbighshire Advertiser 16 Jan. 3/3 It means exactly the same as the older phrase which has got into popular use—‘local veto’... We doubt not ‘local option’ will become a very popular phrase, when indicating the policy of the Permissive Bill. 1895 Speaker 20 July 63/1 We are compelled to speak thus of the Local Veto Bill and the Local Veto panacea for the evil of the drink traffic. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 769/2 Sweden and Norway.—In these countries the celebrated ‘Gothenburg’ or company system is in force together with licensing and local veto. 2001 R. Kenna Glasgow Pub Compan. (ed. 2) 51/1 In 1920 the good people of Whiteinch voted to become ‘dry’ under the ‘Local Veto’ provisions of the Temperance (Scotland) Act of 1913. < as lemmas |
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