(v. t.) To deprive of power; to divest of strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
(2) Or you might have dads who think the court process is inherently biased against fathers, who feel disempowered and unable to pursue their case without help – so they don’t try, and the result is that they don’t have any contact with their children at all.
(3) But once he forfeits control of Air Force One, Marshall is suddenly disempowered.
(4) Those strange groups of men who feel so disempowered by any mention of feminism reveal themselves time and time again and indeed some of them really are not doing well at all.
(5) "We have warned ministers that school and college leaders are feeling demoralised and disempowered by the government's assault from all directions on the education system, and the approach it takes during the remaining negotiations will be all-important if a final agreement is to be reached."
(6) She will leave the remainers of England disempowered.
(7) In an open letter to Corbyn – the first of a stream of advice to the anticipated leader – Compass describes Labour as a 20 th -century, top-down machine that disempowered those involved.
(8) "Instead, I found it very distressing and disempowering.
(9) Many Muslim women in particular feel disempowered and not trusted by the wider, white majority.
(10) I conclude by arguing, against post-modern cynics, that a reasoned defence of the Welfare State requires a broader concept of self-sufficiency and a perspective which both acknowledges the need for help, and recognizes the extent to which the provision of help may further disempower the disadvantaged.
(11) Enterprise is about getting regulators off car-makers’ backs and disempowering meddling stakeholders, especially trade unions.
(12) However if those attitudes are at least partially stoked by very real and profound economic and social changes that have left some men feeling disempowered, marginalised, maligned and neglected, is it enough to simply demand that they suck it up and deal with it?
(13) "Sanitary conditions at the prison are calculated to make the prisoner feel like a disempowered, filthy animal.
(14) It was substantially less disempowering than others we saw."
(15) Many who work in society’s “safety net” – social workers among them – have tried since the film’s release to show that they are shoulder-to-shoulder with people who have been disempowered.
(16) It will be those who have least who will be the most impoverished and disempowered when libraries are closed.
(17) Education secretary Michael Gove has attacked universities for turning out young social workers inculcated with "idealistic left-wing dogma" who wrongly see parents as disempowered "victims of social injustice".
(18) (“Lesson one: don’t send photos of genitalia to Mary Beard.”) To say that trolls, or rapists, or domestic abusers, cannot be controlled by those they victimise does not disempower the victims: it is a reminder of who really is culpable here.
(19) The purpose of these developments however is clear: to debase and disempower Republican Political Prisoners.” The republican prisoners warned: “Those overseeing and implementing these policies would do well to use history as their guide to see where their actions will lead.” In 2012 dissident republicans shot dead a Maghaberry prison officer, David Black , while he drove along a motorway on his way to work at the prison.
(20) It is only recently that nurses are recognizing that fragmentation of the profession along these and other lines disempowers us and may result in non-nurses delineating what our practice will be.
Disenfranchise
Definition:
(v. t.) To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Entitled Jobs, Justice and Equity, the report warned that growing inequality, marginalisation and disenfranchisement are threatening Africa's prospects and undermining the foundations of its recent success.
(2) Miliband says he does not want union levy payers disenfranchised from the Labour party elections, but is happy to look at how the relationship could be reformed.
(3) What we are seeing with some young people is this disenfranchisement manifesting itself in radicalisation.
(4) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(5) Legal challenges are under way in North Carolina and Arkansas to halt proposed changes to voting rules that, critics argue, will disenfranchise many voters inclined to vote Democratic.
(6) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(7) The challenge we face is to increase the problem-solving capacity of disenfranchised communities.
(8) Together they set out to modernise Radio 2, reasoning that as Radio 1 shed its "Smashie and Nicey" middle-of-the-road image to target youth in the 1990s, Radio 2 had to move and scoop up disenfranchised adults aged in their late thirties and above.
(9) There will always be disenfranchised youths trying to find their friends, trying to find their place.” Slimane’s images capture those youths on the perpetual quest for teenage kicks.
(10) "Young people, who are the majority of our audience, are angry, disenfranchised, and they don't like or trust mainstream media outlets.
(11) Yet the narratives in Benefits Street have a human and poignant quality, often presenting decent and compassionate people disenfranchised by an unfair society.
(12) As well as the economically disenfranchised, India is also a diverse nation in which many groups, such as Adavasi's (indigenous tribes of India) remain socially excluded, with limited access to services or the state.
(13) They have already cracked down on trade unions and charities, undermined the BBC in favour of rival broadcasters, attempted to reduce our rights in areas such as judicial review and freedom of information, stacked the House of Lords while trying to rig the Commons and disenfranchising swaths of the electorate, and choked off funding for opposition parties while politicising the civil service and protecting the millions they get from big business.
(14) Voters will soon become disenfranchised and wonder what they are paying for.
(15) Giving judges power to disenfranchise convicted prisoners in individual cases would produce inconsistencies.
(16) In Zimbabwe, independent domestic monitors said the polls were "seriously compromised" by registration problems that may have disenfranchised up to a million people.
(17) The expanding definition of an emergency and mandated patient examination requirements have hit urban hospitals particularly hard, as the uninsured and disenfranchised increasingly find the ED their only source of medical care.
(18) For centuries Travellers have been discriminated against and disenfranchised.
(19) As I see it, this has everything to do with disenfranchising folks you don't want to vote, and very little to do with actually curtailing alleged voter fraud , which appears to be more myth than reality.
(20) In his first major speech, delivered in Bristol last week , the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, whose only previously known arts engagement was a love for Star Trek, said too many Britons were culturally disenfranchised.