How To Use Suffragette In A Sentence
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The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object.
A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best
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The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes.
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She was a suffragette and a birth control pioneer.
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What would the suffragists and suffragettes of yesteryear think?
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The women in Bolton were suffragists, not suffragettes.
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Her subsequent position in the immigrant community as the proprietor of a cafe, however, is more closely aligned with middle-class social workers than with the labor activists and suffragettes of the working class.
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The women in Bolton were suffragists, not suffragettes.
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Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
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For the first time since the suffragettes, constitutional reform has become a popular issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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When one considers the legitimacy of Parliament, it's ironic that it has largely come about through extra-parliamentary action: the Levellers, the Chartists, the suffragettes, etc.
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Hunger strikers no longer feel obliged to duplicate the gravitas of such famous trailblazers as the suffragettes and Gandhi.
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Her book is a decade by decade illustrated survey of the changing role of women in the twentieth century, from the suffragettes to the modern executive.
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VIRGINIA HISTORY CELEBRATION, sword-fighting and lacemaking demonstrations, artifacts from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Colonial music and games, portrayals of Civil War spies and a suffragette parade. 11 a. m.-3 p.m.,
Prince William County community calendar, July 15-22, 2010
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Over the last hundred years, suffragettes, hunger marchers, miners, pro-fox hunters and campaigners against police brutality, the poll tax, fuel tax and the prohibition of cannabis have all congregated in Hyde Park.
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To hundreds of suffragettes campaigning for women's right to vote, the form represented an opportunity to get their message across.
The Sun
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But as for kicking up the particular kind of shindy that the Suffragettes are kicking up, I would as soon do it for my shallowest opinion as for my deepest one.
All Things Considered
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He still nursed his grievances, for pet grievances are not yet included in the tax on luxuries, but these were no longer suffragettes and lawyers, but slugs, "mawks," and
More Tales of the Ridings
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The longest - and most controversial - chapter in the book is devoted to the suffragettes.
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To hundreds of suffragettes campaigning for women's right to vote, the form represented an opportunity to get their message across.
The Sun
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Her house was a congregation for many of her activist friends, including the famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
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‘My feeling is that rioting and violence don't give solutions, but it was the only option for the suffragettes, as they didn't have any say through the normal democratic channels,’ says McCallum's great-niece.
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Suffragettes were jailed for offences ranging from disrupting political meetings or refusing to pay taxes, to assault.
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The suffragettes donned red lipstick as a feminist statement at a time when only tarts and actresses wore the old war paint.
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She was a suffragette and a birth control pioneer.
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Nothing brings out my inner suffragette more than a film that announces its allegiance to post-feminism.
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He uses the suffragettes as ‘effective extra-parliamentary protest’ but fails to mention that not until the militants began a campaign of fire-raising and window-smashing were they taken seriously.
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Both these men had publicly thanked the Suffragettes for their notable share in piling up those triumphant and highly significant majorities.
The Convert
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Abolitionists, freethinkers, and suffragettes found spiritual innovation compatible with their quest for social reform.
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But comparing these people with our low-turnout, low-commitment electorate, I felt the Chartists and suffragettes would recognise them as fellow spirits.
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Each advert screened sepia film clips of suffragettes marching with banners proclaiming the need for votes for women.
Times, Sunday Times
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They wear green, purple and white - or more commonly, simply purple - the colours chosen by the early suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union, an organization in Britain in the early 1900s.
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She began to believe that the suffragette cause needed an actual martyr to bring it the publicity it needed.
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Suffragettes were among the first feminists in Britain.
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Interestingly enough, this was centered on many Protestant woman suffragettes who by law voted in school committee elections but were denied the vote for other city offices.
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When one considers the legitimacy of Parliament, it's ironic that it has largely come about through extra-parliamentary action: the Levellers, the Chartists, the suffragettes, etc.
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Hardheaded and softhearted, she soon earns the nickname of “the vampire suffragette.”
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The suffragettes claimed their place in social history by fighting for women to get the vote.
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In 1851, ex-slave Sojourner Truth addressed a convention of white suffragettes and white ministers debating which issue was more important, abolition or women's suffrage.
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And we had mony stalwarts amang the Scottish Suffragette movement.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The suffragette movement campaigned for votes for women in Britain and the US.
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What would the suffragists and suffragettes of yesteryear think?
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We all know there are laws that apply to planning applications, although if the suffragettes and Chartists had adopted an attitude of apathy and did not stand up to be counted all those years ago, we would not now have the vote.
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It took the American suffragette movement half a century to win in 1920 the right to vote.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
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Unusually for a parliamentarian, his roots are sunk deep in the historical soil of extra-parliamentary rebellion, from the Chartists and the Tolpuddle Martyrs, to the Suffragettes and the anti-poll tax protesters.
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The suffragettes had to fight to get the vote for women.
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I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours.
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She and her two daughters campaigned in suffragette costumes.
Times, Sunday Times
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British suffragists and suffragettes discovered that renewed though it was, the Liberal Party that returned to office in 1906 in no sense had votes for women on the agenda.
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From the suffragettes to the poll tax the only kind of protest that appears to get noticed is violent protest.
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
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And we had mony stalwarts amang the Scottish Suffragette movement.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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It took the American suffragette movement half a century to win in 1920 the right to vote.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Katharine Hepburn was born into a family of free thinkers - her father a pioneering doctor in Hartford, Conn., her mother, a suffragette and birth control activist.
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Like it or not, the activists are the suffragettes of the day and, as with the campaigners for women's votes, they attract fear, loathing and scorn in equal measure.
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The film strives to redress this prettification of history, which is in part the suffragettes' own mythmaking.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1909, she gave up her job as teacher and went to work full-time for the suffragette movement.
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In a way, their contrasting lives tell the story of female emancipation as vividly as the history of the suffragettes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
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His mother was a novelist, a Labour Party member, and a suffragette who was imprisoned for her agitation for women's rights.
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Nothing brings out my inner suffragette more than a film that announces its allegiance to post-feminism.
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She and her two daughters campaigned in suffragette costumes.
Times, Sunday Times
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British suffragists and suffragettes discovered that renewed though it was, the Liberal Party that returned to office in 1906 in no sense had votes for women on the agenda.
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In a way, their contrasting lives tell the story of female emancipation as vividly as the history of the suffragettes.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours.
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As any Higher history student knows, the women's suffrage movement consisted of two factions: the suffragists and suffragettes.
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But while such atrocities led to the rushing through of expanded male suffrage, governments refused to be swayed by suffragette outrages.
Times, Sunday Times
