(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.
Vote
Definition:
(n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
(n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
(n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
(n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
(n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
(v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
(v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.
(v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
(v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.
(v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(3) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(4) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(8) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(9) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(10) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(11) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(12) However, these votes will be vital for Hollande in the second round.
(13) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(14) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(15) Its restrictions are so strong that even many Republicans voted against it.
(16) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(17) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(18) If I don’t agree with the leadership of the party, I don’t vote for it.
(19) At the People’s Question Time in Pendle, an elderly man called Roland makes a short, powerful speech about the sacrifices made for the right to vote and says he’s worried for the future of the NHS.
(20) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.