(n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
(n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
(n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(2) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(3) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(4) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(5) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(7) We measured 1,2-DG content and PKC activity in TSH-deprived growth-arrested cells when TSH was readded.
(8) After 8 days of starvation, there is a 25% decrease in the muscle protein, but after 8 days of protein deprivation, there is no significant change in the muscle mass.
(9) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
(10) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(11) Effects of l-glutamine deprivation on HVJ growth in several other cells were also investigated.
(12) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(13) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(14) Glucose deprivation also inhibits N-linked glycosylation.
(15) Rhabdomeres are substantially smaller and visual pigment is nearly eliminated when Drosophila are carotenoid-deprived from egg to adult.
(16) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
(17) Deprivation of pancreatic secretion did not induce significant variations of the pH pattern.
(18) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
(19) The injection of dDAVP alone had no effect on the rma of the PVN or PN, but dDAVP injection alone, water deprivation alone, or both treatments combined decreased the rma of the PD in Severe mice.
(20) The behavioral effects of phenytoin, phenobarbital, clonazepam, valproic acid, and ethosuximide were evaluated in food-deprived pigeons performing under automaintenance and negative automaintenance procedures.
Disfranchisement
Definition:
(n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(2) In a sign of the concern in the US at the threat posed by extremists in Europe and in Syria and Iran, the president said disfranchised Muslims were one of the greatest challenges faced by Europe.
(3) Fighters and the previously disfranchised – such as the young, unemployed and minorities – tend to advocate a high degree of "de-Ba'athification" whereas the wealthy, the highly educated and tribes favoured by Gaddafi prefer less extensive purging.
(4) In his speech Bercow, wearing a green and yellow rosette with his own face on it, thanked his wife Sally, an approved Labour party candidate, for her vote, and alluded to the disfranchisement issue and the large number of voters on the doorstep who expressed "surprise, confusion …" "Disgust," added a woman behind me.
(5) He later became disfranchised by the Company of Surgeons in order to obtain the Licentiate of the College of Physicians.
(6) The taskforce was responsible, critics say, for helping to disfranchise millions of Americans in the presidential election year, as well as spreading stand-your-ground laws modelled on the one that prevented Trayvon Martin's killer George Zimmerman from initially being charged.
(7) • As of 2004, more African American men were disfranchised (due to felon disfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the 15th amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.
(8) Blacks and progressive whites are banned, terrorized, detained without trial, tortured, and murdered by the state; the Africans are not only disfranchised but are now also being denationalized and deprived of their ancient birthright to this richly-endowed part of Africa.
(9) Given that the Shia leaders in Iran care so much about their disfranchised Shia brethren in Bahrain, a more principled EU-US approach is bound to improve the rocky Iran-EU relations and mitigate tension with the US, positively impacting the deadlocked negotiations on their nuclear standoff.
(10) They have been referred to as “Museveni babies”, yet most feel disfranchised: they lack opportunities and relevant skills for the job market.
(11) The decision to disfranchise party members who joined after a given date was that of the NEC, not that of any UK court.