Sentence examples for suffrage day from inspiring English sources

August 18 , 1920was the date on which the last vote needed to ratify the amendment was received; August 26th is celebrated as Women's Suffrage Day, as that is the official day when the amendment became part of the Constitution.

We celebrate Women's Suffrage Day on Aug. 26, which is when the amendment officially became part of the Constitution.

It's been 93 years since women achieved suffrage, and Tuesday's announcement from GM seems ridiculously overdue.

The gesture is meant to show gratitude to the icon of women's suffrage on Election Day.

A founder of Partida Țărănească (which served as an inspiration for the Peasants Partyy after 1918), he was a collaborator of Vintilă Rosetti in campaigning for the universal suffrage and legislating Sunday rest.

And yet the debates of her day over suffrage and contraception sound strikingly familiar to modern ears.

A legal limit on the length of the working day, full suffrage for women, and the legalisation of homosexuality are common in most liberal democracies today.

It led to Jamaica becoming the third country in the Commonwealth to get universal adult suffrage and, to this day, for all of Jamaica's million other problems, it has a very strong class consciousness.

What is true for gay equality is no less true for civil and disability rights, female suffrage and the eight-hour day all the way up to democracy itself.

Protests at the statue on Independence Day became a suffrage movement ritual.

"It is interesting as I sit here reflecting on suffrage today," she said, highlighting that Friday is Women's Equality Day.