Assertion: temperance's passion | /r/CapableOf | spread with violence
Facets:
value: in spite of the retail trade
type: OTHER
value: by 1724
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In spite of the retail trade being put under the licensing system in 1700, by 1724 the passion for gin drinking had spread “with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic
text: In spite of the retail trade being put under the licensing system in 1700, by 1724 the passion for gin-drinking had spread "with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic" (Lecky, "English History", I, iii), and in vain was the famous "Gin Act" passed in 1736, making the license practically prohibitive.