suffragettes

Women seeking the right to vote, known as the suffragettes, experienced a similar fate.

Shaun Monson: Legitimate Animal Activism 2009

It was a one hundred year long effort to gain the vote for women; the effort was led by community organizers called suffragettes, a term taken from England where women won the vote a full decade earlier than did American women, also courtesy of community organizers.

If it weren't for community organizers, Sarah Palin wouldn't even be at the podium Ellen Beth Gill 2008

LAMB: You quote Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Edith Wilson, as calling the suffragettes detestable and despicable.

Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House 2001

They might be termed the suffragettes of religion, for they pray always to "Our Father and Mother, which are in heaven."

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

They might be termed the suffragettes of religion, for they pray always to "Our Father and Mother, which are in heaven."

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

In fact they give Marx a bad name, he at least suffered for his ideology whereas these little 'suffragettes' live like socialist royalty.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

It was the first group whose members were known as "suffragettes".

Commonplace Book 2010

It was the first group whose members were known as "suffragettes".

Commonplace Book Steph Mineart 2010

More traditional environmentalists, from the Green Party to Friends of the Earth, have been joined by quirkier 21st century outfits like Climate Rush, green "suffragettes" who last week occupied Heathrow's domestic departure lounge to hold a mass tea party in Edwardian costume.

Telegraph Major News 2009

Back then, sometimes, they were called by the diminutive term "suffragettes"; they're known today, more often, as "suffragists."

IntLawGrrls 2009