(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.
Voting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vote
() a. & n. from Vote, v.
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.