Sentence examples for to suffrage from inspiring English sources

People have died for the right to suffrage.

In 1887 she resigned a pastorate she had accepted nine years earlier in order to devote herself to suffrage work.

Wood found that "it is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage".

Under her leadership the Equality League enrolled thousands of working women who had never before been sought out by or attracted to suffrage organizations, and new life was quickly injected into the cause.

Because the periodical was "devoted to the interests of Woman to her educational, industrial, legal and political Equality, and especially to her right of Suffrage," it printed speeches, debates, and convention notes that pertained to suffrage for women.

Breasts, in particular, come and go: big in the fifties, when women were housewives; small in the twenties, forties and sixties, decades of emancipation, thanks to suffrage, wartime employment and sexual liberation.

As a result, input legitimacy may be negatively affected by lowering the voting age if this only serves to extend suffrage to citizens who are not motivated or able to participate in decision-making in this way.

In 2011 Bremen became the first Land to extend suffrage to 16-year-olds for state elections.

In the 1835 36 legislative session, he voted to expand suffrage to white males, whether landowners or not.

In 1914, The New York Herald reported that she handed out tickets to a suffrage lawn party to pupils at Public School 93.

Ratifying the U.N. Declaration of Political and Civil Rights implies that a nation is committed at a minimum to universal suffrage and more generally to equal citizenship.