Sentence examples for narrow suffrage from inspiring English sources
King and ministers prepared a set of decrees that dissolved the newly elected Chamber, further restricted the already narrow suffrage, and stripped away the remaining liberty of the press.
In 1814 he granted a charter establishing a constitutional monarchy, with restricted powers for a Parliament elected by a narrow property suffrage.
But most importantly for Holmes, Eleanor Marx wrested feminism away from its narrow, bourgeois suffrage and property-rights agenda and insisted on trying to make it a properly socialist enterprise.
State legislatures began narrowing their suffrage laws in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as huge waves of immigration from southern and eastern Europe led to greater suspicion about political radicalism among the newcomers.
Unlike Anthony's relatively narrow focus on suffrage, Stanton wanted to push for a broader platform of women's rights in general.
During this time, Stanton maintained a broad focus on women's rights in general rather than narrowing her focus only to female suffrage in particular.
Although motivated by a multitude of discontents, the strength of the "umbrella revolution" lies in its narrow focus on one demand: genuine universal suffrage and, more precisely, the scrapping of the Chinese government's decision that a pro-Beijing committee vet the candidates allowed to run for Hong Kong's next chief executive.
Mali has universal adult suffrage.
