Sentence examples for enfranchised about from inspiring English sources

Finally, in 1918, the Representation of the People Act, which enfranchised about 6,000,000 women, was passed.

When Wilson travelled to Salisbury on 26 October, Smith offered to enfranchise about half a million black Rhodesians immediately along the lines of "one taxpayer, one vote" in return for independence, but Wilson said this was unacceptable as most blacks would still be excluded.

He offered to increase black legislative representation by expanding the electorate along the lines of "one taxpayer, one vote"—which would enfranchise about half a million, but still leave most of the nation voteless in return for a grant of independence.

She began The Week In Westminster; its role, as Dr Murphy points out, was to educate newly enfranchised women about parliament, and it was presented by female MPs.

Corporate sponsors are helpfully making sure the party remains laser focused on the hot button issues that every Mondeo man, Aldi woman and newly enfranchised millennial is talking about.

Finally, Myners says it's about time the Co-op enfranchised its ordinary members and introduced the principle of one member, one vote.

So she dreamed up Week in Westminster as a way for female MPs such as Megan Lloyd George and Nancy Astor to speak about parliament for the benefit of Britain's newly enfranchised women.

With half a million burghers in the Commonwealth now substantially enfranchised, political power became more equally distributed, but little was done about the less politically conscious and active classes, such as the Jews and peasants.

(Reith importantly invoked women, newly enfranchised).

The black civil-rights struggle, in the South at least, was mostly about asserting legal rights and demolishing barriers to voting by those who were, in theory, already enfranchised.

That fully enfranchised constituency is up for grabs in November.