(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.
Disfranchise
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
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.