Sentence examples for case for emancipation from inspiring English sources

The leading voice of this economic case for emancipation was Edward Atkinson, an agent and treasurer for several Northeastern cotton mills who knew more than anyone else about the financial and manufacturing aspects of the industry.

Robert has a good case for emancipation.

Elizabeth has no case for emancipation.

A financially independent teenager can make a good case for emancipation.

Nevertheless, their leaders, Pitt and Dundas, would continue to support the case for Catholic emancipation.

In the case, which was heard in Torrance in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, DelaCerna claimed that the Bradleys had brainwashed Copeland into filing suit for emancipation from her mother, and DelaCerna, who was represented by Gloria Allred, filed a series of restraining orders against Bartell, the lawyer who filed the emancipation charges on behalf of her daughter.

He continued his call for emancipation in private correspondence.

"A hyena in petticoats" was one of the epithets flung at Mary Wollstonecraft when her polemic setting out the case for women's emancipation, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," was published in 1792.

Even more important however has been the imposition on Wollstonecraft of a heroic-individualist brand of politics utterly at odds with her own ethically driven case for women's emancipation.

I mean, it's interesting if you look across the hemisphere more broadly than U.S. emancipation, most cases of emancipation of slaves are paid emancipation where people who are giving up their slaves are actually paid for them because they experienced emancipation as a loss of property.

While acknowledging the role African Americans themselves played in ending slavery, her characteristically meticulous research and careful reading of the sources made a compelling case for Lincoln's pivotal role in emancipation and commitment to civil rights for the former slaves.