Sentence examples for universal suffrage for from inspiring English sources

There is universal suffrage for citizens age 18 and older.

The president is elected by universal suffrage for a maximum of two five-year terms.

Universal suffrage for citizens at least 21 years old was implemented in 2003.

The constitution provides for universal suffrage for citizens 18 years and older.

There is universal suffrage for all citizens age 18 and over.

There is universal suffrage for Belizean citizens age 18 and older.

In Hong Kong on Tuesday, tens of thousands of people marched through downtown toward the government headquarters, calling for universal suffrage and for the leader, Leung Chun-ying, to step down, as my colleague Keith Bradsher reports.

He argued publicly for universal suffrage and for the rights of workers to organize democratically-constituted collectives.

The demonstrators called for universal suffrage in elections for Mr. Tung's successor in 2007 and for the elections for the Legislature in 2008.

It made a commitment to universal suffrage, extraordinary for the time, and two years before women in Britain won the vote.

Universal suffrage – fought for at such great cost by our forebears – is silently, stealthily unwinding: a huge gap in turnout now separates middle-class professionals and unskilled workers.