Suffrage

Definition

suffrage /'sʌfrÇdʒ/ n [U] မဲေပးပိုင္ခြင့္။ universal suffrage (ie the right of all adults to vote) ❍ The women's suffrage movement. ❏ suffragette /sʌfrǝ'dʒet/ n (၂၀ ရာစုႏွစ္ ေစာေစာ ပိုင္းၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံတြင္) အမ်ဳိးသမီး မဲေပး ပိုင္ခြင့္ရရိွေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ၌ ပါဝင္သူ အမ်ဳိးသမီး။

Examples

1. ‘However
2. pressure from public opinion to broaden the suffrage was becoming too great to be resisted in the late 1870s.’
3. ‘Universal adult suffrage for everyone over 21 was finally achieved in the UK in 1928
4. when women between the ages of 21 and 30 secured the right to vote and the property qualification was abolished.’
5. ‘For a short time in 1848 it appeared that the introduction of adult male suffrage might democratize politics
6. but the election to create a Constituent Assembly for the Second Republic soon dispelled any such notions.’
7. ‘General elections with universal adult suffrage were held in April 1965
8. with several political parties represented.’
9. ‘He fought for franchise reform
10. but the country did not gain universal adult suffrage until 1950
11. almost a century later.’
12. ‘Willard and the WCTU also embraced the women's suffrage movement
13. advocating votes for women as a means of protecting the home and strengthening family values.’
14. ‘In England the outbreak of war in 1914 brought about a crisis in the militant suffrage campaign.’
15. ‘Trinidad was granted universal adult suffrage in 1945.’
16. ‘It consisted of six points: universal male suffrage
17. vote by ballot
18. equal representation
19. abolition of the property qualification to sit in Parliament and payment of Members of Parliament.’
20. ‘We look back now
21. to the civil rights movements and the female suffrage movements and hold our head in shame at the thought that it took us too long to grant these rights.’
22. ‘Northern male black activists understood the colonization scheme as part of the same developments that denied them political freedom and suffrage.’
23. ‘In the spring of 1848 the radical press
24. political clubs
25. and the National Guard bubbled with activity in Paris and provincial cities as elections under universal manhood suffrage to the Constituent Assembly approached.’
26. ‘Finland was the first country to provide equal voting rights to women
27. instituting female suffrage in elections to the national parliament in 1906.’
28. ‘Political
29. economic
30. and social reforms were introduced
31. such as a freely elected Japanese Diet and universal adult suffrage.’
32. ‘The area of political rights involves suffrage and women's rights to run for office
33. or hold appointed positions of power in government.’
34. ‘Successive extensions of the right to vote produced universal adult suffrage by 1928 and made the House of Commons representative of the nation.’
35. ‘After World War II
36. universal adult suffrage resulted in women being grudgingly accepted as partners in the political process.’
37. ‘She was not a great statesman; neither was she a leader of the woman suffrage movement.’
38. ‘Bulgaria's 1991 constitution
39. which established a parliamentary republic
40. provides for a multiparty parliamentary system and free elections with universal adult suffrage.’
41. ‘Women in France
42. where there was virtually no suffrage movement
43. got the right to vote just a quarter of a century later than their British sisters - and moreover got it from the right wing
44. pro-Nazi Vichy government.’