(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.
Enfranchise
Definition:
(v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
(v. t.) To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
(v. t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think we should extend this, crack it open and re-enfranchise the party and allow them [the contenders] to define what they are."
(2) This early reporting of the suffragette movement by the Guardian, edited through a male Liberal view that thought women could earn their enfranchisement if they engaged in reasoned debate and behaved in a ladylike manner, set the tone for much that was to follow.
(3) Possession of a British passport should be enough.” Responding to the judgment, MacLennan said: “The government made a manifesto commitment to enfranchise all British citizens, no matter how long they have been abroad saying that they thought that ‘choosing 15 years, as opposed to 14 or 16 years, is inherently like sticking a dart in a dartboard’ and that ‘if British citizens maintain British citizenship that brings with it rights, obligations and a connection with this country, and that that should endure’.
(4) It calls on the government to carry out its promise to enfranchise the Gibraltar electorate in time for the European parliamentary elections in 2004.
(5) He was elected to the then Tanganyika legislature in 1958, representing East Province, the first time that the country's Africans were enfranchised, and became leader of the opposition.
(6) This transgressive exemption from meaning might well be read, in a Barthesian sense, as true sexual enfranchisement in that, for Barthes, the liberation of sexuality requires the release of sexuality from meaning, and from transgression as meaning.
(7) It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination.
(8) Having just turned 18 this month (and having voted in the general election), I hope my critique will not be seen as a product of any self-interest in preventing the enfranchisement of those younger than me.
(9) And looming large over the steadily turning battlefield is the unaddressed but essential issue of how a political process can re-enfranchise the marginalised Sunnis of both countries whom Isis claims to champion.
(10) This was, after all, the will of the recently enfranchised masses.
(11) I would personally go much further because my concerns about TTIP are not just about the effect on public services but also the principle of investor protection that goes within TTIP – planned rules which would in effect almost enfranchise global corporations at the expense of national governments.
(12) Finally, his argument that we should enfranchise 16- and 17-year-olds to “ensure that everyone has a fair say on our future” would, by the same logic, be a reason to allow 11-year-olds to vote as well.
(13) The efforts to protect and enfranchise Sunni civilians in cities held by Isis are seen as crucial to the long-term defeat of the group.
(14) The freeholder, Friends Life, challenged Westbrook’s entitlement to enfranchise.
(15) Throughout these years, the Guardian was strongly Liberal and edited by CP Scott, an influential member of the Liberal party who firmly supported women's enfranchisement.
(16) Enfranchisement of News Corp's A shares, which don't carry full voting rights, would indeed create more value than a buyback; it would give outsiders more control of the company's direction and that power has a value.
(17) At a time when voting was extended to more working men, its newly enfranchised visitors could rant at a disliked politician or stare impertinently into the eyes of royalty.
(18) In the five years from the emergence of the Beatles in 1963 to the upheaval of 1968 the economic enfranchisement of a generation turned into mass political action, if not fantasy.'
(19) "But the empowerment and enfranchisement of the poor – all those things Jesus Christ stood for – are values I share."
(20) A new law enfranchised as many as 20,000 ex-felons in the city, and new early voting and same-day registration laws vastly increased early voting numbers, with more than 30,000 ballots cast before election day.