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Example sentences for "suffrage"

Lexicographically close words:
suffocating; suffocation; suffocative; suffragan; suffragans; suffrages; suffragette; suffragettes; suffragist; suffragists
  1. She had some correspondence with him on the subject of the petition to Parliament for the extension of the suffrage to women, which she signed; and she also wrote to thank him warmly for his book on the "Subjection of Women.

  2. The law in the United States is in some respects even worse, insulting the sex, by granting suffrage to the newly-emancipated slaves, and refusing it to the most highly-educated women of the Republic.

  3. I have also frequently signed petitions to Parliament for the Female Suffrage, and have the honour now to be a member of the General Committee for Woman Suffrage in London.

  4. The suffrage is a matter of states' rights.

  5. I may be a woman suffragist, and yet be tolerant of the views of a friend who opposes suffrage, not on grounds of sex, but because he believes that the suffrage is already too wide, requiring restriction rather than enlargement.

  6. It is entirely wrong to think that, because he denied that universal suffrage will guarantee justice and humanity, he endorsed injustice and oppression.

  7. Equality of the right of suffrage is not maintained.

  8. The dignity of suffrage is thus lowered; and, in placing it in the scale with an inferior thing, the enthusiasm that right is capable of inspiring is diminished.

  9. Griffenbottom and Westmacott shook hands cordially, and complained with mutual sighs that household suffrage had made the work a deal harder than ever.

  10. Let the first work of household suffrage be a demand for manhood suffrage.

  11. Had the great reformer of the age given them household suffrage for nothing?

  12. What beats me about the whole performance," he said, "is that she never said a single word about woman's suffrage from start to finish.

  13. She was as keen as nuts on helping us and didn't ask a single question about your views on the suffrage question.

  14. I went round to her this morning and told her you'd sign any pledge she liked about woman's suffrage if she'd only clear out of this and go to Belfast.

  15. This unanimity, however, did not require the suffrage of every member of the council.

  16. The question of female suffrage has been brought to the notice of various members of the Government on various occasions and in various ways.

  17. Nor is it adequate as a means: it is not sufficient for a nation by adult suffrage to express its will; that will has also to be carried into execution, and it requires a strong executive to do so.

  18. The recent Congressional elections have furnished a direct and trustworthy test of the advance thus far made in the practical establishment of the right of suffrage secured by the Constitution to the liberated race in the Southern States.

  19. The law proposed to transfer the election of priests from their own respective colleges to the suffrage of the people; [Footnote: The several pontifical colleges had been close corporations, filling their own vacancies.

  20. She does not expect woman suffrage to effect any political changes, except in one or two matters where she believes women have interests which men have not, or do not recognize.

  21. Now manhood suffrage is the rule and not the exception.

  22. What with entertaining for my father and keeping up the social end necessary for a public man, and a general welfare movement I am interested in, and the Suffrage League, I have often wished I had an astral body to help me out.

  23. Professor Green was her natural enemy, for was he not instructor in a girls' school where, she was led to understand, belief in equal suffrage was as necessary for entrance as the knowledge of Latin or mathematics?

  24. Margaret could attend the suffrage meetings, and Maggie could look after the child's welfare, while dear, handsome, wholesome Peggy could be the beloved wife of some promising public man.

  25. She can give suffrage or the ballot no new quality, nor can she receive anything from it that will enhance her own quality.

  26. True, in the suffrage States women are guaranteed equal rights to property; but of what avail is that right to the mass of women without property, the thousands of wage workers, who live from hand to mouth?

  27. The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

  28. Where are the women in any suffrage country or State that can lay claim to such a victory?

  29. That equal suffrage did not, and cannot, affect their condition is admitted even by Dr.

  30. Not for a moment do I mean to imply that woman suffrage is responsible for this state of affairs.

  31. Needless to say, I am not opposed to woman suffrage on the conventional ground that she is not equal to it.

  32. If that be so, it seems ridiculous to point to Australia and New Zealand as the Mecca of equal suffrage accomplishments.

  33. But, say our suffrage devotees, look at the countries and States where female suffrage exists.

  34. When we consider the accomplishments of woman in America, we find also that something deeper and more powerful than suffrage has helped her in the march to emancipation.

  35. On the contrary, they insist always that it is woman suffrage which will make her a better Christian and homekeeper, a staunch citizen of the State.

  36. It is indeed to be regretted that the alleged creator of the universe has already presented us with his wonderful scheme of things, else woman suffrage would surely enable woman to outdo him completely.

  37. I yield to no one in attachment to that rule of general suffrage which distinguishes our policy as a nation.

  38. It would have been in consonance with the express provisions of the Constitution that "each State shall have at least one Representative" and "that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

  39. The right of suffrage has often been assumed and exercised by aliens under pretenses of naturalization, which they have disavowed when drafted into the military service.

  40. Second, I renew my request that the principle of self-government be extended and the right of suffrage granted to the citizens of the District of Columbia.

  41. Negro suffrage was established by act of Congress, and the military officers were commanded to superintend the process of clothing the Negro race with the political privileges torn from white men.

  42. In the District of Columbia the time is long overdue for granting national suffrage to its citizens and also applying the principle of local self-government to the Nation's Capital.

  43. In those days the frugality of the people was stamped upon their Government, and was enforced by the free, thoughtful, and intelligent suffrage of the citizen.

  44. The unrestricted power of removal from office is a very great one to be trusted even to a magistrate chosen by the general suffrage of the whole people and accountable directly to them for his acts.

  45. If Congress will agree to propose this amendment, and three fourths of the States will ratify it, woman suffrage will be legalized.

  46. The Governor of Wyoming affirms that woman suffrage is an unqualified success in the Territory.

  47. This epistle was written to Titus appointed by suffrage first bishop of the church of Crete, from Nicopolis in Macedonia.

  48. And they drew lots for them and the lot fell to Matthias and he was by unanimous suffrage numbered with the eleven apostles.

  49. Laws shall be made to exclude from office and from suffrage those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors.

  50. And by section two, article twelfth thereof, the legislature was required to pass laws to exclude from suffrage "those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery or other high crime or misdemeanor.

  51. But every thoughtful and candid man will doubt the proposition that the grant of suffrage to the negro was a mistake when viewed from the standpoint of the negro's welfare.

  52. This historic statement at the outset will explain why several matters pertaining to suffrage in municipalities not now in the state, are hereafter mentioned.

  53. The change just made in the suffrage laws of the territory can best be appreciated by the use of parallel columns.

  54. It evidently contained a desire of placing the right of political suffrage above the popular masses, and of confining it within the more elevated classes of society.

  55. Universal suffrage is well suited to republican associations, small or federative, newly instituted or mature in wisdom and political virtue.

  56. I believe the direct and defined right of suffrage to be alone effectual in securing the action of the country upon the Government.

  57. If any gentleman here is prepared to vote for universal suffrage with a full view of all the consequences of universal suffrage as they are set forth in this petition, he acts with perfect consistency in voting for this motion.

  58. What we are asked to do is to give universal suffrage before there is universal education.

  59. She was accompanied by Lily Devereaux Blake and other woman suffrage agitators and I proceeded to escort them to the hotel where I had arranged for their reception.

  60. There was never a time in my life when I was opposed to the equal suffrage of the sexes.

  61. Quite early, therefore, I was attracted to the woman suffrage movement.

  62. The bill providing for negro suffrage in the District of Columbia was among the first important measures of the Thirty-ninth Congress.

  63. I regarded it as the previous question, and as less abstract and far more immediately important and absorbing than that of suffrage for woman.

  64. Ten years before, in the Harrison campaign, Mr. Bigger, the Whig candidate for Governor, made himself very popular by proving that Van Buren had favored negro suffrage in New York.

  65. The political rage and exasperation which now prevailed in the ranks of the Anti- Suffrage faction can be more readily imagined than described.

  66. All efforts to postpone the measure, or make the suffrage restrictive, were voted down, and on the announcement of its passage the cheering was tremendous.

  67. His hostility to the suffrage wing of his party seemed to be quite as relentless as to the Rebels, while the great body of the Republicans of the district deferred strongly to his views.

  68. The question of negro suffrage was slowly coming to the front, and could not be much longer evaded.

  69. Is there one single principle of Jesus as to rights and wrongs that the suffrage of good men can condemn as false?

  70. What I ask is this: Is there in any teacher of any nation one single principle of rights and wrongs that the suffrage of the race could approve, that Jesus does not teach?

  71. Agitation for the suffrage has been carried on in India's chief cities.

  72. Suffrage and prohibition are echoed in the streets of Poona and in the councils of Delhi.

  73. It is often said that, judged by its power to govern great cities, universal suffrage is a failure.

  74. Who would exchange universal suffrage for college suffrage, or corporation suffrage, or newspaper suffrage?

  75. But in a republic, where universal suffrage is the law, nothing more intolerable could be conceived.

  76. Thus universal suffrage is itself a normal school, the people's college.

  77. Take, for instance, the growing distrust of universal suffrage manifested by our cultivated classes.

  78. If the rancor of party spirit, if the dry-rot of legislative corruption, if the tyranny of incorporated wealth, if the diabolism of intemperance are to be curbed, it is universal suffrage which must hold the reins.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffrage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    approval; association; aye; ballot; canvass; complicity; condominium; contribution; division; engagement; franchise; involvement; nay; partaking; partnership; plebiscite; poll; proxy; referendum; representation; say; sharing; suffrage; voice; vote; voting; yea; yes


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    suffrage amendment; suffrage bill; suffrage meeting; suffrage movement; suffrage plank; suffrage states