Sentence examples for for a suffrage from inspiring English sources

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

Her acute understanding of both the legislative process and the techniques of lobbying contributed immeasurably to the success of the campaign for a suffrage amendment to the Constitution.

The vote was the second defeat for a suffrage amendment in less than a year, as the Senate had voted against one in March 1914.

During this time she helped to introduce and lobby for a suffrage amendment to the state constitution.

The legislature voted for a suffrage bill in 1919, but Governor Percival Clement of Rutland vetoed it.

The public outcry played a role in Wilson's decision in 1917 to reverse his stance and announce his support for a suffrage amendment.

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.

These members were thus at least partly obliged by the nature of their constituency to vote for a woman suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution.

She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the state and local levels.

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

Inspired by the U.S. "Occupy" movement, University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting proposed a campaign he called "Occupy Central": a one-and-a-half year push for universal suffrage, culminating in a mass rally to shut down Hong Kong's "Central" district on July 1 , 2014