77 Verbs to Use for the Word suffrage

In 1893 the voters of Colorado, by a majority of 6,347, gave full suffrage to women.

But the question of extending the suffrage was kept always before the people, and when the King refused to go further with that reform its advocates urged their demands more strongly than ever.

When Woman Suffrage was first established in New Zealand and Australia, the fact made little impression upon the rest of the globe; but when northern Europe accepted the idea, and Finland and Norway granted women full suffrage and Sweden and Denmark gave them almost as much, the movement was everywhere recognized as important.

What is the language of those who advocate universal suffrage?

To-day in three of the Territories of the Union women enjoy full suffrage, in a large number of States and Territories they are entitled to vote at school meetings, and in all the States and Territories there is a growing sentiment in favor of this measure which will soon compel respectful consideration by the law-making power.

Eleven months later, in October, 1911, a majority of the voters conferred the suffrage on the 400,000 women of California.

It was evident that the working people were so accustomed to expect equivocation and evasion from those who sought their suffrages, that when they found, instead of that, a direct avowal of what was likely to be disagreeable to them, instead of being affronted, they concluded at once that this was a person whom they could trust.

A flag floating from the summit of the temple, proclaimed to mankind that it was Sleary's Horse-Riding which claimed their suffrages.

There have been more meetings held, more money raised, and more workers enlisted than to obtain suffrage for the men of the entire world.

Landed aristocracy, Established Church, military classes, privileged classes, restricted suffrage, and all the rest, have been abolished in their country for two generations and more: but behold, the poor man finds himself (or fancies himself, which is just as dangerous) no richer, safer, happier after all, and begins to see a far simpler remedy for all his ills.

Women are not allowed to form political associations or hold public meetings, but 4,000 have paraded the streets of Vienna demanding the suffrage.

By being unwilling to forego the praise due to any, we may forfeit the reputation of all; and instead of uniting the suffrages of the whole world in our favour, we may end in becoming a sort of bye-word for affectation, cant, hollow professions, trimming, fickleness, and effeminate imbecility.

One faction wanted to limit suffrage to unmarried women who own property and deprive married women and dependent daughters and wage-earners of the ballot.

It would also follow that if such be her destinythat is, to be something else than a mere "individual being"and if for that reason she is to be denied the suffrage, then man equally should be denied the ballot if his highest and final estate is to be something else than a "mere individual.

And in these Territories, too, as well as wherever else she has exercised the suffrage, she has elevated man to her own level, and has made the voting precinct as respectable and decorous as the lecture-room or the assemblies of the devout.

Yet men tell us that they will vote the suffrage to women whenever the majority of women desire it.

The leaders of the revolution in China have promised suffrage for women if it is successful.

The real reason why the attempts to carry woman suffrage through the House of Commons during the past two years have failed is not merely the difficulty of trying to combine a non-party measure with the party system; it is, above all, the impossibility of using Parliament to pass a bill that the opinion of the country has been fomented to condemn.

They are well organized to secure the full suffrage and are holding hundreds of meetings and distributing thousands of pamphlets.

A refutation of the physiological objection to equal suffrage is, however, not hard to find.

He added, with infinite coolness and intelligence"But you cannot expect men to sleep so well the night before they are hanged as they are likely to do afterwards!" He looked round in all our faces, as if to collect our suffrages in favour of this pleasantry.

"The council of the Chippewa tribe of North American Indians, by a two to one majority, have accorded the suffrage to their squaws.

They talked suffrage in little groups in the dining-room, they discussed it in the street cars going to and from the convention.

It is true that some of the far Western Territories adopted women's suffrage soon after being made States, or at the time they were admitted; but no other State, even of those surrounding them, has followed their example, though the people have repeatedly voted on the point.

We have already seen the untenable nature of this assumption, because those who make it bestow the suffrage upon very large classes of men who, however well qualified they may be to vote, are physically unable to perform any of the duties which appertain to the execution of the law and the defense of the state.

77 Verbs to Use for the Word  suffrage