How to Use home rule in a Sentence

home rule

noun
  • The citizens petitioned for home rule.
  • The stay-at-home rules did indeed bend the virus’s growth curve.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • 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
  • But Newsom said counties would have the choice to keep stricter stay-at-home rules in place.
    — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
  • Outright repeal of home rule is not out of the question.
    — Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, with home rule.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The territory, considered the largest island in the world, has enjoyed home rule for close to five decades.
    — Adam Price, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Coronavirus stay-at-home order extended through May The islands will keep stay-at-home rules in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
  • 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
  • In the meantime, Park Ridge being a home rule municipality, the north suburb is taking on the issue.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Bothwell discussed various legal grounds to attack the project, from a health and safety perspective to home rule doctrine.
    — Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025

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