(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.
Dishearten
Definition:
(v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dixon said that in the wake of the latest shooting, he was “disheartened but not surprised”.
(2) The simple answer: absolutely no.” The reticence of others to publicly support her had been disheartening at times.
(3) Perhaps more disheartening has been the increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
(4) Obviously, workers get disheartened and reduce their demand for work even when they need it; in other cases, the state and local authorities try to dissuade them or do not register their demand because they do not have the funds to provide the required work.
(5) "We are deeply disheartened about the unprecedented events taking place in the UK at the moment and which have impacted communities across the country," he said.
(6) Navratilova, a winner of 18 grand slam singles titles, said: “It is really disheartening to see Ray Moore offer the extremely prejudiced and very old-fashioned statements regarding women tennis players.
(7) Those left thoroughly disheartened by the week in politics and Monday’s Euro 2016 football disaster have been invited to reflect back on a happier time, when the Beatles were at No 1 in the charts with Paperback Writer, and England were about to lift the World Cup for the first (perhaps only) occasion.
(8) It sets out yet more evidence of the real-life and disheartening effects on women of the shortage of midwives."
(9) Bush said that the passage of HB40 has left many activists “overall probably disheartened” and “kind of tired” but determined to carry on.
(10) It is disheartening to see some tabloids give prominence to this nonsense.
(11) Yet one of the key issues and most disheartening matters for workers is the attitude of Mike Ashley , who repeatedly distances himself from current problems in the stores.
(12) Esteban Lasso, executive director of Canadian-based "cleft care" charity Transforming Faces, said in a statement : "It's disheartening that a major motion picture would perpetuate this negative perception and we hope that in future, birth defects and facial differences will not be used to portray 'evil' characters."
(13) That seemed implausible when he left Manchester United in 2004, disheartened after two and a half largely fruitless seasons.
(14) It is sad and disheartening that the Oscars awards show sought to use anti-Jewish stereotypes for laughs."
(15) So for him to be this disheartened with Moyes says a fair bit.
(16) To fall back into this type of conflict against itself, is disheartening and tragic.” “I’m trying to help them see past their tribalism and the fighting, to become more aware of the current issues that are effecting the entire planet, not just a small minority.
(17) The country’s president, Baron Waqa, told parliament after the child refugees were beaten: “I’m disheartened that the refugees are being attacked by the locals verbally and physically.” The Australian government maintains that the welfare of refugees resettled on Nauru is a matter solely for the Nauru government.
(18) The government proposals, which come after last month's General Synod vote against legislation to allow female bishops , have disheartened many clergy campaigning for a more inclusive church.
(19) But this is a radical, disheartening development in the history of the organisation, long held out as a beacon for the open, free spirit of the web as a tool for liberation.
(20) It’s clear the CIA was trying to play ‘keep away’ with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that’s a serious constitutional concern,” Snowden told NBC : But it’s equally if not more concerning that we’re seeing another ‘Merkel Effect,’ where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.” Updated at 4.09pm GMT 3.54pm GMT Brennan says Edward Snowden’s leaks have disheartened people in the intelligence community.