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Example sentences for "municipal elections"

  • In the Riksdag of 1908 ex-Premier Staaff introduced a measure granting female suffrage in parliamentary elections and extending it in municipal elections.

  • Women taxpayers had been granted the right to vote in municipal elections in England, Scotland, and Wales, through the efforts of Jacob Bright.

  • School suffrage had been won in twelve western states as against five in the East, and Kansas women were now voting in municipal elections.

  • In the Province of New Brunswick the Legislature in 1886 gave, unsolicited, to widows and spinsters the right to vote on the same terms as men at Municipal elections.

  • In most of the Prussian towns the property qualifications of the wife are accounted to the husband in order that he may take part in municipal elections.

  • I have heard of notes purporting to get certain persons into the hospitals, being given by aldermen on the occasions of municipal elections.

  • He believed that a fixed rate was kept up by municipal elections, because the leading men were afraid of losing their influence.

  • Great was the potency of colors: though not supposed to be worn at municipal elections, they were a rallying cry, and they were always at hand to be flouted, like a red rag at a turkey, in the face of the enemy.

  • The Bill which was agreed upon was based upon the democratic principle of Household Suffrage, of which the country had had more than forty years' experience as far as women were concerned in municipal elections.

  • Again, in 1884, the act was still further amended, extending the right to vote at municipal elections to widows and unmarried women on all matters.

  • The Ballot act also, which at once rendered elections orderly and safe, henceforth gave increased security and comfort to women who were voting in municipal elections.

  • To apply one system of proportional representation to the parliamentary elections, another to municipal elections, and to maintain the majority system for the provincial elections, is really too absurd.

  • The Transvaal Municipal Commission recommended the adoption of proportional representation in municipal elections, and the Government embodied this recommendation in an Act passed in June 1909.

  • In Kansas, since 1887, women have possessed active and passive suffrage in municipal elections.

  • A favorite idea was to authorize "every free white male inhabitant of the town" who had resided therein for a specified time, to vote in municipal elections.

  • By several acts passed while this constitution was operative the constitutional rule was, however, adopted in defining who should vote in municipal elections.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before observed; economic development; fight with; had loved; has not; left home; municipal affairs; municipal borough; municipal corporations; municipal elections; municipal government; municipal officer; municipal ownership; municipal suffrage; municipal trading; operative societies; party state; solid form; stiff clay; taking their; then were; thought mebbe; time come; under arrest; young person; your wife