How to Use home rule in a Sentence

home rule

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  • The citizens petitioned for home rule.
  • Do the same work-from-home rules apply to kids and schoolwork?
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Sort byNewestexpand_more So long home rule, DC council is not ready for prime time.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • An attempt to strip East Dundee of its home rule status has failed.
    — Erin Sauder, Elgin Courier-News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But, in February, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the vote, and home rule.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The end result would be quasi–home rule, with partition of the island thrown in on top.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
  • But the state’s stay-at-home rule has forced the nonprofit to change policies and allow people to stay 24-hours a day.
    — Chris Moody, The New Republic, 1 June 2020
  • The council’s recent home rule proposal still has a ways to go.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Wu said the city will file a home rule petition with the Legislature to join the pilot.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Glencoe is one of the few communities along the North Shore without home rule.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2021
  • No Republican has been elected mayor of D.C. since the start of home rule in 1975.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Stay-at-home rules in flux Evers dropped his plans for a new statewide rule requiring people to stay in their homes.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2020
  • The bill would not impact home rule counties that appoint, rather than elect, their county clerk.
    — oregonlive.com, 10 June 2019
  • The long term city governance would be determined by the home rule charter.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • San Diego has been the site of several demonstrations opposing the stay-at-home rules.
    — oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Councilors disagreed on whether the new rules should come in a home rule petition or a city ordinance.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • There has not been a successful recall in Washington since the district was granted home rule in the 1970s.
    — Andrew Trunsky, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • An area with very independent people who are very set on home rule.
    — Matthew Shaer, New Republic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • One reason for that is the city is increasing the amount of money allocated from the local home rule sales tax in 2018.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • There will be two at-large seats on the November 2020 ballot — and only one can be a Democrat under the city's home rule charter.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Congress did not simply forget about the promise of home rule over the intervening 185 years, of course.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The sneaky stuff — the lack of home rule, the broken tax structure, the cruel and capricious education system — was left untouched.
    — al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Look, for Republicans home rule is a central tenet of their belief.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • Trustees must also decide whether to keep its home rule sales tax, and electricity and gas use taxes.
    — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Under home rule, localities still are subject to laws that affect the whole state.
    — Tyler Arnold, Washington Examiner, 5 June 2020
  • At issue is whether the city charters improperly limit the home rule powers of cities.
    — Brian Eason, ajc, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But its attempts to curb the power of the army and the church, grant home rule to Catalans and Basques and implement land reform, all amid the Depression of the 1930s, may have been too ambitious.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The coronavirus outbreak and safer-at-home rules closed the brewery's taproom and opened the opportunity for wine sales.
    — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The campaign is in largely murky political territory: A recall campaign has never succeeded in the 50 years of D.C. home rule.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Kelly, a Democrat, agreed with opponents who said the legislation would interfere with local control and violate home rule.
    — Jenna Barackman, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024

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