Sentences with phrase «voting age of women»

She supported lowering the voting age of women and increasing the legal age for purchasing alcohol from 14 to 18.

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The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

In last year's election, 73 percent of white evangelical women under 35 voted for Trump compared to 60 percent of white evangelical men of the same age.

Likewise, if you apply too many demographic criteria (upper - income women in Texas Congressional District 5 who are aged 30 - 45, with children, are registered Republicans but who haven't voted in the past two elections), you can end up with target universes that are too small to be useful, a great example of diminishing marginal returns.

With the Representation of the People Act 1918, almost all adult men (excepting only peers, criminals and lunatics) and most women over the age of thirty were given the right to vote, almost tripling the British electorate at a stroke, from 7.7 million in 1912 to 21.4 million in 1918.

It was also a Liberal / Conservative National Government that gave women over the age of 30 the vote in 1918 and a Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin that in 1928 established an equal voting age of 21 for men and women.

You've got a terrific young woman, very articulate, very capable with an enormous amount of experience for somebody her age, especially, run a great campaign in a Republican district that wants to vote Republican.

I'll be able to say, for example, that x number of people voted for the number 25, that 30 per cent of them were women and break this down by age and country.

A federal government advisory committee voted Tuesday to recommend that males ages 11 to 21 be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus, which is blamed for thousands of cases of cancer among women and men.

Russian parliament voted in a new law, according to which Russian women have to marry by the age of 25 or face huge fines.

Additionally, while the fact three of the eight Best Picture nominees (Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road and Room) focus on female protagonists, the lack of women in a number of major categories (notably directing, but also cinematography and original score) continues to be vexing, the overall demographic makeup of Academy membership (primarily Caucasian and over the age of 65) leading to voting trends that remain troublesome, to say the least.

Elinor Smith took her first flight at age 6, became a licensed pilot at 16, was voted «Best Woman Pilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulator.

Laying the foundations of democracy in the UK today, the 1918 Act granted the vote to women over the age of 30 who met certain property criteria and gave the vote to all men over the age of 21.

These artists came of age during the era of the New Woman, when women increasingly explored the public realm, attended college, entered the labor force, and fought for the right to vote.

In the last election one - third of First Nations people were under the age of 16, meaning that a large number of these individuals are now eligible to vote, the young woman enthused.

On January 1, 1919, all Canadian women over the age of 21 gained the right to vote in federal elections.

On December 16, 2003, a joint hearing of the FDA Nonprescription Drugs and Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committees voted 23 to four to recommend that the FDA make Plan B emergency contraception available over the counter for all women regardless of age.