Sentence examples for suffrage held from inspiring English sources

The PAC was equivocal about participating in South Africa's first elections by universal suffrage, held in April 1994.

The National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage held a meeting in the town with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attending, where he called the suffragettes "female hooligans" and compared the attack to "blowing up a blind man and his dog".

Parliamentary elections, with universal adult suffrage, are held every four years.

1994 South Africa's first elections by universal suffrage are held in April.

The terms of the treaty also included increased popular participation in government, and five general elections based on adult suffrage were held between 1952 and 1974.

1994 A South African man voting in the historic 1994 election, the first time in the country's history …David Turnley/CorbisSouth Africa's first elections by universal suffrage are held in April.

Chanting "No fake universal suffrage, I want genuine universal suffrage", the demonstrators held yellow umbrellas, a symbol of the earlier protests when activists wielded them as a defence against police using pepper spray.

Other woman suffrage conventions were held as the movement gained its first mass strength, but at first no way of extending the vote to women was known except by amendments to the constitutions of the various states.

After all, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 states as much: "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures".

The next election, in 2017, will be the first to be held under universal suffrage.

A black-majority party, the Readjusters legitimated and promoted African American citizenship and political power by supporting black suffrage, office-holding, and jury service.