adult suffrage

collocation in English

meaningsofadultandsuffrage

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adult
adjective
uk
/ˈæd.ʌlt/us
/ˈæd.ʌlt/
grown to full size ...
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suffrage
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsʌf.rɪdʒ/us
/ˈsʌf.rɪdʒ/
the right to vote in an election, especially to vote for representatives in ...
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(Definition ofadultandsuffragefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Among the many significant transformations which followed from independence was universaladultsuffrage.
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And universaladultsuffragehas meant a political revolution, the full impact of which remains to be analyzed.
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There are enough people to act as returning officers, schoolmasters, clerks and so on, to carry through any election necessary, even underadultsuffrage.
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Local government elections based on fulladultsuffragehave recently been held.
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The extension of suffrage to universaladultsuffragetakes time and still does not exist in many parts of the world.
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I cannot promise him that the introduction ofadultsuffrage, or anything like it, is likely to follow immediately.
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Adultsuffragemay be a good or a bad thing.
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But the years have passed, the franchise has been extended, and to-day we have practically universaladultsuffragein the land.
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There have been several who said thatadultsuffragewill not follow, but it must follow to avoid not only absurdity, but inequity.
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The thing is absurd, and you cannot get rid of it except by having recourse toadultsuffrage.
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Another peculiar fact about the island is that it did not obtainadultsuffrageuntil 1968.
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Power must be handed over to a democracy where there are representative institutions on the basis of universaladultsuffrage.
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Elections to district councils are already made on the basis of universaladultsuffrage.
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But such an association can be achieved only on the basis of universaladultsuffrageor something very near it.
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In our view, the question of administrative practicability affords the only ground of objection toadultsuffrage.
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He said they thought that the difficulty had been overstated, and advocatedadultsuffragein large towns.
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Our experience is that we ought to giveadultsuffrageof a more complete character.
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I have said already that the administrative machine could not possibly handle the vast numbers of voters that would be created byadultsuffrage.
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It is only recently that we have had in this country full universaladultsuffrage—only in the last 30 years.
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This means, apart from a simple literacy qualification, universaladultsuffragefor the three main racial groups.
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