How to use "suffrage" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "suffrage" in popular movie and book plots

  • Duncan Armstrong, rich and powerful, helps pass the White Australia Policy in 1901 that greatly restrict Chinese immigration and encourages Chinese Australians to leave, while his cousin Eleanor works for women’s suffrage and a “fair go” for Aboriginal Australians.  - Destiny in Sydney (novel)
  • More setbacks stall the construction: Harland and Wolff want to save costs and use cheaper materials, the workers wish to form a trade union, the women suffrage movement heats up in the UK, and the pro Home Rule and pro-Unionist groups battle each other.  - Titanic: Blood and Steel
  • These disputes involved women's suffrage in Argentina, failed coup attempts against the Peronist government, and Eva's failed bid for the vice presidency.  - Eva Perón: The True Story
  • On the way there, a suffrage parade is harassed by a group of jeering men, and Dinah and Lily come to the women's rescue, causing a small riot.  - Adventure in Baltimore
  • At the dinner, Ka'iulani charms her visitors before surprising Thurston by publicly petitioning for an amendment to the annexation treaty to guarantee universal suffrage and voting rights to all Native Hawaiians.  - Princess Kaiulani (film)
  • He tries to persuade her to give up her involvement in the suffrage movement, but she insists she cannot abandon such a worthy cause.  - The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
  • In August, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to oversee and enforce constitutional rights of suffrage and prevent discriminatory measures, such as use of literacy tests against potential voters.  - Selma, Lord, Selma
  • She then incurs the annoyance of her male neighbors by farming sheep instead of cattle and setting up a women's suffrage movement.  - The Ballad of Josie
  • The treatment of the militant women's suffrage movement is especially detailed—there are graphic descriptions of imprisonment and forcible feeding of hunger strikers.  - Fame Is the Spur (novel)
  • The novel describes the exploits of Hilda Fitzherbert, a 23-year-old former Undersecretary for Home Affairs, and then Imperial Prime Minister, in a future where the British Empire has achieved both female suffrage (which New Zealand granted in real life in 1893) and become an Imperial Federation, apart from an independent Ireland.  - Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny
  • Amelia, a determined and unorthodox English female, supports women's suffrage and believes she will never marry.  - Crocodile on the Sandbank

Example sentences for "suffrage" in interesting articles

  • India is almost unique in having adopted universal suffrage while it was still very poor.  - Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record
  • He's not drawing some moral equivalence between socialized medicine and Hitler. To make a similar analogy without Hitler, its like a feminist saying she would rather live in pre women's suffrage America than live in present Saudi Arabia.  - Why I prefer French health care
  • To prepare for his arrival, “reform Christians” sought to improve conditions on Earth, eliminating slavery (abolition), providing voting rights for women (the suffrage movement), and preventing women from suffering abuse at the hands of alcoholic husbands (temperance). “Oneidans never for a minute pretended that women were equal to men.  - The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware

Meaning of "suffrage" in English

  • a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment

Meaning of "suffrage" in Hindi

  • राजनैतिक ( Rajanaitik, raajanaitik, razanaitik)
  • चुनाव में वोट देने का अधिकार ( Chunav men vot dene ka adhikar, chunaav men vot dene kaa adhikaar, chunaw men wot dene ka adhikar)
  • साक्ष्य ( Sakshy, saakshy)
  • मताधिकार ( Matadhikar, mataadhikaar)
  • मतदान देने का अधिकार ( Matadan dene ka adhikar, matadan dene kaa adhikaar)

Synonyms of "suffrage"

  • right to vote
  • vote

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