(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.
Dispirit
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
(v. t.) To distill or infuse the spirit of.
Example Sentences:
(1) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
(2) Nobody was too dispirited by the court process: fundamentally, this one flat isn’t the point.
(3) New restrictive laws are passed with dispiriting predictability: foreign media franchise owners are forced out of their stakes in international brands such as Forbes or Esquire based in Russia, fines and other penalties are introduced for not covering controversial subjects such as terrorism and drug abuse in terms that “do not explicitly discourage the behaviour”.
(4) With this in mind it is simple to see why Brendan Rodgers’ joy at having emerged unscathed from a testing third-round FA Cup tie against AFC Wimbledon may have been tempered by the realisation that it fell to that man again, Gerrard, to rescue a positive result from another dispiriting Liverpool display.
(5) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.
(6) It is dispiriting, to say the least, as a female voter, to read an article criticising a party for being "crammed" with female politicians when it has reached the dizzying heights of a roughly 30:70 gender split .
(7) Discussing the post-referendum wave of racist and xenophobic abuse can provoke a rather dispiritingly defensive reaction.
(8) Yet it is dispiriting to find that, at the age of 12, your son's language skills have gone into reverse and he seems to be interested only in mixing music or playing football.
(9) D oes it just mean that I’m in a sticky situation?” Rachel Sherman, mother of four, asks, wondering if her household classifies as a just-about-managing family, or in the dispiriting new political acronym, a Jam.
(10) No, what made Binyamin Netanyahu’s emphatic win so dispiriting were the depths he plumbed to secure victory.
(11) Sturridge, nonetheless, has a wonderful knack of not becoming dispirited.
(12) But it is a trifle dispiriting even so to hear the education secretary parroting the same lines as his predecessors – even more so for teachers, I guess.
(13) That could be helpful both in rallying a dispirited party, and in responding to an economic tsunami which market liberalism still cannot explain.
(14) How dispiriting, then, that the film should come courtesy of Peter Farrelly, one half of the fraternal duo who are among the great innovators of gross out (4).
(15) Had he remained on the field against a dispirited Newcastle a Premier League record, if not double figures, might have been within reach.
(16) 'You never know, maybe they might actually count the votes' Less than a day earlier, Shiva, a 26-year-old resident of north Tehran who plans to leave Iran soon to continue her studies in the United States, described the dispirited mood in the capital.
(17) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(18) The public sector is more than capable of hiding its vices, as the police and National Health Service demonstrate with dispiriting regularity.
(19) How emotionally exhausting, how dispiriting and demoralising it is to have to publicly affirm your “Britishness” and your “moderation” again and again.
(20) Game over, the dispirited fans closed out tabs and ventured out into a snowy Manhattan afternoon.