Sentence examples for a suffrage from inspiring English sources

Lassalle at once recognized in the congress an opportunity to organize a "Suffrage Army".

This coalition also narrowly defeated a suffrage bill, 32 to 30.

In 1909, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women borrowed the property for a suffrage outing.

In 1918, a suffrage amendment was passed in the House, but fell two votes short in the Senate.

When Theodore Roosevelt founded the Progressive Party, it adopted a suffrage plank, and he aggressively courted women.

In 1914, The New York Herald reported that she handed out tickets to a suffrage lawn party to pupils at Public School 93.

Up the Women seemed undecided whether to aim for a suffrage-themed Dad's Army vibe, or Blackadder-style absurdist drollery, falling nervously in between.

The migraine-ridden daughter of a suffrage-minded mother and an alcoholic father who had committed suicide, Hadley is a sheltered young woman from St . Louiswho plays Rachmaninoff on the piano while yearning to break free of the staid "Victorian manners keeping everything safe and reliable".

His followers, who favoured a centralized government, a restricted suffrage, regressive taxation, and free trade, became known in the new national parliament as Liberals.

She led a campaign for a woman suffrage amendment to the California constitution and subsequently joined in similar campaigns in Oregon, Nevada, and Connecticut.

Despite the failure from 1896 to 1910 of a single new state to ratify a state suffrage amendment, much of the organizational groundwork had been laid.