(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.
Franchise
Definition:
(a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
(a.) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.
(a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
(v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(2) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
(3) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
(4) David Beckham's plan to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Miami looks to be on life support after the city's mayor, Tomás Regalado, previously a key ally in the project, said no to the construction of a stadium at a prime waterfront site.
(5) The 'prequel' trilogy, featuring Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, was released between 1999 and 2005 but Lucas has developed the franchise far beyond those six original films.
(6) The first two games from that partnership will be based on the company’s b-tier franchises Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem.
(7) In turn, the franchise provides income for local entrepreneurs who can access direct financing from a local microfinance bank to get started.
(8) In a last-ditch attempt to overturn the award of the west coast rail franchise to FirstGroup, Virgin Trains co-owner Sir Richard Branson has offered to run the service "for free" to allow time for parliamentary scrutiny of the decision.
(9) Train operators fear the revised rail franchise timetable announced in the wake of the west coast fiasco is already slipping as documents for the first contest appear likely to be delayed until autumn.
(10) The cost of a new franchise would extend beyond the $25m for the expansion franchise, such as stadium construction and player acquisitions.
(11) Crozier said the X Factor, which last year recorded its first year-on-year audience decline since launching in 2004 , was one of a number of ITV's ageing entertainment franchises .It was imperative to keep developing new formats.
(12) Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | Letters Read more My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.
(13) The Liverpool city region has proposed retention of 100% of business rates income and the ability to franchise all local bus services, while Leicester and Leicestershire want devolution of funding and the ability to commission skills programmes locally.
(14) She’s a normal girl thrust into extraordinary circumstances, so it’s very relatable.” Ridley’s leap from bit parts in British TV dramas to the biggest film franchise in the world is a legitimate overnight success.
(15) BSkyB has broken ITV's almost 40-year hold on James Bond films, striking a deal to air the full 22-strong franchise in high definition.
(16) "Our strategy is to run these franchises online, but when we have a linear partner we'll make original content that's exclusive to the linear channel in a window," said chief creative officer Eddy Moretti.
(17) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
(18) Under Mr Grayling’s plans, new franchises would integrate more closely with NR.
(19) Bidders have spent an estimated £1m each on their bids but, according to one industry source, the process has stalled and franchise owners are being forced to retain expensive but idle bidding teams.
(20) This will give Orlando a major positive as MLS weighs up the options after announcing that the league will expand by four teams, to 24 franchises by 2020 .