11 sentences with 'suffrage'
Example sentences and phrases with the word suffrage and other words derived from it.
• « One of the main goals of first-wave feminism was women's suffrage: the right of women to vote. »
• « Women's suffrage movements temporarily suspended their agitation for the vote in favour of using their existing organisations to support the war effort in the name of patriotism. »
• « Blanc believed that universal manhood suffrage should lead to a government capable of bringing about the necessary economic changes, primarily by guaranteeing work for all citizens. »
• « Also, although voting rights existed for some male citizens in most nations by 1900 (universal suffrage for men generally only came about after World War I), conflicts over citizenship itself remained. »
• « Some women continued to cut their hair, and of course women's suffrage finally became a reality (albeit with various restrictions) in most European countries and in the United States in the course of the 1920s. »
• « In short, the politics of the latter part of the 19th century were embedded in journalism. As almost every state in Europe moved towards male suffrage, leaders were often shocked by the fact that they had to cultivate public opinion to pass the laws they supported. »
• « Conservatism was totally opposed to the idea of universal legal equality, let alone suffrage (i.e. the right to vote), and basically amounted to an attempt to maintain a legal political hierarchy to accompany the existing social and economic hierarchy in European society. »
• « France went from an absolute Catholic monarchy to a radical, secular republic with universal suffrage for men, a new calendar, a new system of weights and measures and the declared aim of conquering the rest of Europe in the name of liberty, all in the space of about five years. »
• « Also, the one thing the bourgeoisie and the working class had in common was a belief in the desirability of the right to vote; by the end of the century universal suffrage for men was on the horizon (or had already happened, as in France in 1871) in almost every country in Europe. »
• « Some countries stubbornly resisted this trend - France refused women's suffrage altogether until after the period of Nazi occupation in the Second World War - but there is no doubt that, overall, the cause of women's suffrage was helped enormously by women's patriotic service during the First World War. »
• « The constitution of Weimar Germany guaranteed universal suffrage for men and women, fundamental human rights and the complete rejection of the remnants of monarchism. Unfortunately, the government of the new republic was deeply unpopular with many groups, including right-wing army veterans like the young Adolf Hitler. »
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