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
  • The city is using the tools available to maintain its home rule.
    — Keith Poliakoff, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026
  • To change that, Congress would need to overturn home rule.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Can Trump repeal home rule itself?
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 9 Aug. 2025
  • An area with very independent people who are very set on home rule.
    — Matthew Shaer, New Republic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But Newsom said counties would have the choice to keep stricter stay-at-home rules in place.
    — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
  • An attempt to strip East Dundee of its home rule status has failed.
    — Erin Sauder, Elgin Courier-News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The council’s recent home rule proposal still has a ways to go.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Stay-at-home rules left players trying to stay in shape with no access to gyms, tracks or weight rooms.
    — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here's a look at what each of the New Orleans home rule charter amendments would do.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Sort byNewestexpand_more So long home rule, DC council is not ready for prime time.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But local officials and groups opposed the bill raising concerns over home rule.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Look, for Republicans home rule is a central tenet of their belief.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • For the past two years, a quiet war has been broiling in a home rule city in Louisville’s East End.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2025
  • 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
  • At issue is whether the city charters improperly limit the home rule powers of cities.
    — Brian Eason, ajc, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Glencoe is one of the few communities along the North Shore without home rule.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2021
  • For the past two years, a quiet war has been simmering in a home rule city in Louisville’s East End.
    — Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2025
  • San Diego has been the site of several demonstrations opposing the stay-at-home rules.
    — oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2020
  • 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

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