(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.
Suffragist
Definition:
(n.) One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.
(n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.
Example Sentences:
(1) That momentous change was underscored by the hundreds of women who waited in line to affix their “I Voted” stickers to leading suffragist Susan B Anthony’s grave in Rochester, New York.
(2) A friend of feminists and suffragists, she persuaded him that women's innate moral superiority justified their presence in the public sphere.
(3) Men and women have fought and some have died in the suffragist struggle to award me such freedom of expression.
(4) At first the WSPU engaged in peaceful campaigning, just as suffragists had done for more than 40 years, without any successful result.
(5) The poet and suffragist Alice Meynell was a great-grandmother on her mother's side.
(6) Similar tributes formed for prominent suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay and Alva Belmont, according to the New York Times .
(7) Women have also appeared on US coins, like the unpopular $1 coin – which once had suffragist Susan B Anthony on it and is now printed with an image of Native American guide Sacagawea.
(8) In the words of the early suffragist and civil rights campaigner Susan B Anthony : "Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform.
(9) Liberals liked the suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), which admitted men as members too and was led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, who engaged in quiet, constitutional campaigning.
(10) Soon Twain was donating money to suffragist movements and writing in his notebook: "No civilisation can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included."
(11) When Herbert Asquith, a staunch anti-suffragist, became prime minister in 1908 and repeatedly refused to grant facilities for a women's suffrage measure, these early forms of militancy were extended to more disruptive methods.
(12) We owe it to our suffragist brothers and sisters who have fought for the rights we have today.
(13) Think of the suffragists who gathered at Seneca Falls in 1848 and those who kept fighting until women could cast their votes.