2014年3月9日 星期日

self-rule, home-rule. shouting slogan, colonies and dominions

Sovereignty vs. Self-Rule: Crimea Reignites Battle

By PETER BAKER

The showdown in Ukraine has revived a centuries-old debate over when secession is legitimate. Nations' views vary greatly, depending on their own alliances and interests.
The biggest achievement of the Commonwealth, its admirers say, is the fact of its unlikely existence. That so many former British colonies and dominions should be content to co-exist in a club which has the queen as its head is remarkable. However this is a low bar to set for the success of an organisation nominally committed to promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law http://econ.st/1inNP9h



Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou shouts slogans during a weekly meeting at the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party headquarters in Taipei April 27, 2011.



2009/6/25
The new Prime Minister of Greenland looks forward to self-rule

This Sunday, Greenland is commemorating 30 years of home rule from its
former colonial master Denmark. And what better way to celebrate than to
turn home-rule into self-rule. Greenland will enjoy control over its
justice system and most significantly, its abundant natural resources.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew15e4I44va89pI2


home-rule
n.
The principle or practice of self-government in the internal affairs of a dependent country or other political unit.


Movement to secure internal autonomy for Ireland within the British Empire. The slogan "Home Rule" was popularized in 1870 when the Home Government Association (later the Home Rule League) called for an Irish parliament. It was led from 1878 by Charles Stewart Parnell, whose obstructionist tactics in the British Parliament publicized his country's grievances. The Home Rule bills introduced by Prime Minister William E. Gladstone in 1885 and 1893 were defeated. A third bill became law in 1914 but was militantly opposed by Ulster unionists and republicans in Ireland. A system akin to home rule was established in the six counties of Ulster (Northern Ireland) in 1920. In 1921 the remaining 26 counties in the south achieved dominion status, but the link with the British Commonwealth was severed in 1949.
self-rule 自治

dominion

Pronunciation: /dəˈmɪnjən/
Translate dominion | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

  • 1 [mass noun] sovereignty or control:man’s attempt to establish dominion over nature
  • another term for dominium.
  • 2 (usually dominions) the territory of a sovereign or government:the Angevin dominions
  • (Dominion) historical each of the self-governing territories of the British Commonwealth: Great Britain, together with her Dominions and Colonies

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin dominio(n-), from Latin dominium, from dominus 'lord, master'
slogan
[名]
1 (政党・団体・製品などの)スローガン, 標語, モットー, 宣伝文句, キャッチフレーズ.
2 (もとスコットランド氏族の)とき[集合合図]の声.
[ゲーリック語sluaghghairm(ときの声)]
slo・gan・ìze
[動](他)標語化する.

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