Sentence examples for were enfranchised from inspiring English sources

Before African-Americans were disenfranchised, they were enfranchised by the Fifteenth Amendment.

(He won ten of the twelve states where women were enfranchised).

Women in the United States were enfranchised on an equal basis with men.

Streets were paved, the city wall was enlarged, and a number of new towns were enfranchised.

He was elected to the then Tanganyika legislature in 1958, representing East Province, the first time that the country's Africans were enfranchised, and became leader of the opposition.

And if the Palestinians were enfranchised, demography suggests that a Greater Israel between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river, including Gaza, would no longer be predominantly Jewish.

The monarchs seem mostly to have done so capriciously, however, often with little regard for the merits of the place they were enfranchising.

Next door, in Switzerland, women would not be enfranchised until 1971.

A Church synod at Pavia, in 1022, had decreed that the children of priests were slaves, never to be enfranchised.

The old system of voter registration, whereby an entire household could be enfranchised at a stroke, is being abandoned.

All resident Israeli citizens are enfranchised from age 18, regardless of religion or ethnicity, and candidates for election must be at least 21 years old.