(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.
Servitude
Definition:
(n.) The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.
(n.) Servants, collectively.
(n.) A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(2) But though he’s helped liberate thousands of kids from servitude (and into education), 13 million children still toil in India’s supply chain alone.
(3) £30,000 Agencies report that victims are being sold on, along with their debt, for as much as £30,000, to other traffickers for multiple exploitation, including sex trafficking, domestic servitude and cannabis cultivation.
(4) Not now, not then, not ever.” Other survivors were seated in the public gallery at the start of a nine-day hearing dominated by the voices of people sexually abused from as young as two and three years old, after the British government sent them away from their parents into domestic and labour servitude in Australia and other Commonwealth countries.
(5) Kate Roberts, of Kalayaan, said: “For employers who consider that they in effect own the worker they employ, it is certainly convenient that the UK law now prevents their employee challenging any exploitation or even escaping from a situation where they have been trafficked for domestic servitude.” In response to the criticism, Karen Bradley, the minister for modern slavery and organised crime, announced a separate independent review into tied visas, due to be completed in the summer.
(6) Parents are required to bring up children responsibly, while living in a form of servitude to licensed employers and petty line managers, often themselves at risk of returning to zero-hours.
(7) Sometimes we can make £400 in a day.” Mehari does it because he loves to travel – since he came to the UK from Eritrea, escaping the national service there which is, in effect, limitless servitude to the government with pocket money, he’s been everywhere.
(8) People are generally trafficked for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, forced labour, begging and organ extraction.
(9) Count Plunkett, who has recently been disinterned, and Professor John MacNeill, who after a long sentence of penal servitude for his part in the 1916 rising shared the benefit of the general amnesty, led in the House as vice presidents of Sinn Fein.
(10) We recently had a client who was in domestic servitude, forced to work in a nail bar during the day and every evening taken to a brothel and exploited there all night.” Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain's tough new slavery bill Read more Methods used to lure children from Vietnam to the UK are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, including use of social media.
(11) The Operation Imperial team is investigating alleged offences of slavery, servitude, forced labour, false imprisonment, kidnap and assaults.
(12) May said victims were held against their will and forced into a life of abuse, servitude and inhumane treatment.
(13) Common problems experienced by children – such as autism, epilepsy, dyslexia or even simple naughtiness – could trigger accusations, said Ariyo, with children living away from home or in domestic servitude most likely to be targeted.
(14) The amendment’s first section reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Warren, Michigan, March 2016.
(15) Trafficking in this region has become deeply engrained.” In the village of Kunuri, Deepti Minch, 19, describes her experience of being trafficked into domestic servitude in northern India’s Punjab state.
(16) Hyland told the Guardian that the huge numbers of displaced people heading for Europe were “easy prey” for traffickers trading in servitude and sexual exploitation.
(17) Why don't we call this policy by the name it really is, namely the indentured servitude of our young people.
(18) Balira was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for knowingly holding another in servitude and common assault and ordered to pay Mathias £3,000 in compensation.
(19) Every woman, being with child, who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, shall unlawfully administer to herself any poison... or unlawfully use any instrument... shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude for life.
(20) Drawing powerfully on her own family history – her great-great- grandfather lived as a slave – she spoke of “the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.