Sentence examples for achieving the vote from inspiring English sources

Simcock said: "We have the chance to appropriately mark the 100th anniversary of the landmark of women achieving the vote by unveiling this statue.

"For 20 years prior to women achieving the vote, she would annually seek to register as a 'female man,' asserting that the Bible stated that God 'created man, male and female he created them.' She spoke and wrote against the sale of tobacco to minors, capital punishment and corporal punishment of students.

Unsurprisingly, a huge number of Nigerians are furious about the overthrown amendment, with many crying foul play and accusing Yerima of achieving the vote reversal through either bribery or bullying tactics.

Unsurprisingly, a huge number of Nigerians are furious about the overthrown amendment, with many crying foul play and accusing Yerima of achieving the vote reversal through either bribery or bullying tactics.

First-wave feminism had burned itself out in an attempt to work within the system: having achieved the vote, the movement collapsed in exhaustion.

Both are trapped by male expectations of their respective roles and astutely realise that nothing will change until women achieve the vote.

All policies and positions aside, her anticipated nomination is the belated righting of a historical wrong: a feminist landmark within reach, almost a century after women achieved the vote in the United States, with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, in 1920, one year after the birth of Dorothy Howell Rodham, Hillary's mother.

The group's Conciliation Bill looked to be a narrowly defined but still significant possibility to achieve the vote for women.

Although the council did not achieve the votes to stop her project, she said, she remains unsure of its fate.

Supporters of the resolution, speaking before the vote, said they were confident of achieving the necessary nine votes in the 15-member chamber.

Should the Bucklew case be taken all the way to the supreme court on Tuesday night, much attention will be paid to Anthony Kennedy, traditionally the swing vote on the court, whose backing would be needed to achieve the fifth vote for a stay.