单词 | protection act |
释义 | > as lemmasprotection act protection act n. ΚΠ 1818 Times 5 June 2/6 If the arguments for the Restriction Act (or as it has been rather maliciously called, the ‘Protection Act’) be proved..to be wholly unreal and imaginary, the Bank are not bound to take advantage of them. 1881 W. E. Forster Let. to Gladstone 1 Nov. in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) II. viii. 361 We made up our minds to arrest the leaders under the Protection Act. 1997 R. Siddle in M. Weiner Japan's Minorities (1999) ii. 23 A humanitarian movement to halt the physical extermination of the ‘dying race’ resulted in the institutionalization of Ainu inferiority with the enactment of a Protection Act in 1899. < as lemmas |
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