(n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.
(n.) Aid; assistance.
(n.) The right to vote; franchise.
(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
(2) This included guaranteeing: independence of the judiciary, the rule of law and our rights and freedoms and, in particular, that we would move steadily towards genuine universal suffrage.
(3) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for elections for the chief executive in 2017 and for the legislature by 2020.
(4) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(5) The early suffrage movement wanted to protect women as well as give them a modicum of power.
(6) It also somehow knows that, when I’m at the office, I often listen to Vivaldi concertos on YouTube, that I was (until now) a secret fan of even terrible police procedurals and that I have an interest in – as they term it, but I never have – suffrage, though I’ve neither liked nor posted about any of those things.
(7) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for the election of its chief executive from 2017, but reformers are angry about restrictions that have been imposed on the process, including tight control of candidates by a nomination committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists.
(8) It was the first time in the period of mass suffrage that a government had actually increased its majority twice in succession.
(9) Beijing has said it will implement its promise of universal suffrage for the election of the next chief executive in 2017, but protesters say it is “fake” democracy because the candidates will be tightly controlled by a committee stacked with Beijing loyalists.
(10) Wells wasn’t just an African-American civil rights leader, member of the women’s suffrage movement and newspaper editor.
(11) While mainland authorities have promised Hong Kong universal suffrage by 2017 they will only allow a voting system in which they choose the candidates.
(12) The demand on the part of the occupiers when it comes to the constitutional development, especially universal suffrage to elect the chief executive in 2017, is also very clear, so I don’t see any point in resisting the court order.” Protesters have demanded the resignation of Leung and the introduction of civic nominations for elections of the next chief executive in 2017.
(13) Lau reiterated that the framework set out by Beijing for universal suffrage should be followed if Hong Kong wanted electoral reform, the South China Morning Post reported.
(14) Another promise was suffrage, and at the heart of the current movement – called the Umbrella Revolution or Occupy Central – is the demand that Hong Kong residents be allowed to choose Hong Kong’s leaders themselves, instead of having candidates pre-vetted by Beijing.
(15) So that means that our messages, more than ever, need to heard, because there is this delusional element to it all.” She’s right – despite suffrage for women being won almost a century ago, gender inequality remains stubbornly entrenched.
(16) Given the uniform hostility, in a context of recent noises by both senior Liberals and Tories, to the effect that AWSs may have to be introduced if local activists persist in discriminating against women, you can see this developing into a cross-party movement, rather like the old National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, quoted earlier, dedicated to protecting Westminster from further female colonisation.
(17) Acceptance of the law would have meant that slavery remained legal, that homosexuality was a criminal offence and that women were wrong to campaign for universal suffrage.
(18) "But it does seem a shame to use someone who voted against female suffrage to erase the last woman from our currency."
(19) In terms of fostering debate about the nature of our democracy, well, the impact is limited – and yet an attitude of "politics belongs to the experts", a hangover from the days of restricted suffrage, still lingers.
(20) Gradually, I realised that since the 19th century, the labour movement had awakened interest in what earlier generations of workers had done and thought, and campaigns for women’s suffrage had resulted in both chronicles of emancipation and research into the lives of poor women.
Suffragette
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Read more At the time, Cooper said this seemed to be “going back almost to the days of the suffragettes … [when it was said] they couldn’t do things because of things their husbands have done”.
(2) Naturally the government, which has voted it down in the Commons already, instantly declared they would reverse it , as Tories have done with every constitutional reform from the Chartists to the suffragettes.
(3) Helena Bonham Carter said the protest was a “perfect” response to the film Suffragette .
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Suffragette Carey Mulligan gives a layered and powerful performance as a young mother who fights for equality in the late 19th century by joining the Women’s Social and Political Union.
(5) The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals by E Sylvia Pankhurst (1931) Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is a comprehensive first-hand account of the suffragette movement.
(6) Phyllis Gardner, a Slade school art student and suffragette with flaming red hair, fell in love with Brooke while sitting opposite him on the Great Northern train to Cambridge.
(7) I look at feminism now compared to say the Suffragettes or post war feminism as being very split on many issues.
(8) In 1909, he condemned as "torture" the forcible feeding of hunger striking suffragettes who were protesting against the government's refusal to grant them political prisoner status.
(9) There is no romanticising of suffragette activities here.
(10) This early reporting of the suffragette movement by the Guardian, edited through a male Liberal view that thought women could earn their enfranchisement if they engaged in reasoned debate and behaved in a ladylike manner, set the tone for much that was to follow.
(11) The former MP, advocate of the left and anti-war campaigner, who died last week, aged 88, also placed a plaque in a cupboard of the crypt in memory of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison.
(12) Why don't we have one of our great women scientists like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and a suffragette like Emmeline Pankhurst on our banknotes?"
(13) On "Black Friday", as the suffragette deputation of November 18 1910 became known, when the suffragettes trying to reach parliament were treated particularly violently by roughs in the crowd and police who had orders to push them back, he also again, chivalrously, argued that the protesters "are citizens like the rest of us , and they have right to fair treatment and to the protection of the law".
(14) Ifirst learned about the suffragettes in a history lesson, aged 10, and initially I couldn’t really grasp their significance.
(15) The detailed planning document sent last July by his architects, Waugh Thisleton, in support of the building’s conversion from disused flats into a museum, included pictures of suffragettes and 1970s Asian women campaigning against racial murders around Brick Lane.
(16) I refer of course to the suffragettes – a film about whom was screened for the first time in London last night.
(17) This is going back almost to the days of the suffragettes,” she said.
(18) Just over a century ago, it was Labour that rebuffed the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst's membership application because she was a woman (she later stood for parliament as a Conservative instead).
(19) He invoked Hyde Park's history of protest, the Suffragettes, the Chartists (no mention of the Countryside Alliance's 1998 demo or the reform riots of 1866) and said how "profoundly moved" he was to be there.
(20) It will cover 1860 to 1960 embracing Socialism, the Suffragettes, the Pre-Raphaelites, garden city pioneers, the 1951 Festival of Britain, and post-war designers such as Terence Conran.