Sentence examples for temperance efforts from inspiring English sources

Temperance efforts fared little better.

In the decades to come Protestant churches, especially the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples of Christ, Quakers, and women's groups would continue to support temperance efforts and gave strong support to the mostly dry Republican Party.

However, there is an important distinction between the temperance movement and the efforts to secure legal Prohibition.

Reportedly, McTammany later turned his efforts to the temperance movement and prohibition.

The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society's ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption.

Doris Marie Provine's engaging analysis traces the history of race in anti-drug efforts from the temperance movement of the early 1900s to the crack scare of the late twentieth century, showing how campaigns to criminalize drug use have always conjured images of feared minorities.

She collected relief materials for victims of major fires that swept Greencastle in the mid-1870s and played a leading role, along with Lucius, in what was called the woman's temperance crusade of 1873, in which small-town women across the Midwest occupied saloons in an effort to shame owners and patrons into sobriety.

This is a temperance movement".

The temperance cause (temperance in those days was generally understood to mean total abstinence) was promoted mostly by oratory.

The temperance movement and the chapels strengthened it with the virtues of justice, prudence, temperance and courage.

The temperance movement blamed booze for crime, "moral degeneracy", broken families and business failure.