glorious revolution

collocation in English

meaningsofgloriousandrevolution

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glorious
adjective
uk
/ˈɡlɔː.ri.əs/us
/ˈɡlɔːr.i.əs/
deserving great admiration, praise, ...
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revolution
noun
uk
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofgloriousandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We had a debate on thegloriousrevolutionthe other day.
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And why was it called thegloriousrevolution?
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Therefore, as a country we have had to pay a price for the apparentgloriousrevolutionof improvement in industrial relations.
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The address commemorates the 300th anniversary of one of the great events in the history of these islands: thegloriousrevolutionof 1688.
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That is where the allegedgloriousrevolutionand bloodless revolution came from.
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What happened in 1688 was not agloriousrevolution.
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He has produced his own fiscal version of thegloriousrevolution.
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How does that fit in with thegloriousrevolution, which is supposed to have safeguarded our political liberties?
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Of course, thegloriousrevolutiondid nothing to change the social order.
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It was not given to those who participated in thegloriousrevolutionto know where it would lead.
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Had he made it in some other assembly, and had we not had thegloriousrevolution, his head might well have rolled.
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Thegloriousrevolutiongranted many freedoms that we enjoy today.
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I suggested that perhaps in the tercentenary of thegloriousrevolutionhe would recycle that painting for some other work.
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One is bound to ask why it was regarded as agloriousrevolutionat the time and ever after.
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We do not imagine that in a country where tolerance is practised, where it has been practised now ever since thegloriousrevolutionof 1688.
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That was the so-calledgloriousrevolution, establishing constitutional freedoms.
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We should recognise, too, that the so-calledgloriousrevolutionof 1688 paved the way for the processes of imperialism and colonialism.
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The poll tax is the most serious interference with our liberties since thegloriousrevolutionof 1688.
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The whole point about judges since ourgloriousrevolutionis that they are appointed for so long as they conduct themselves properly, and seldom have they had to be removed.
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What followed was thegloriousrevolution.
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