(n.) Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
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.
Investiture
Definition:
(n.) The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
(n.) Livery of seizin.
(n.) That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rajoy’s hope is that Sánchez’s failure in the upcoming investiture vote wreaks havoc inside the PSOE, potentially opening the door to a scenario that might favour him.
(2) Rajoy said he would update the king “after a reasonable period of time” on how meetings with political rivals had gone and let him know whether he had won the support needed to seek investiture before parliament.
(3) In a passionate plea for dialogue and unity, Sánchez spoke for 90 minutes during the first stage of the protracted investiture process that comes a month after the king invited him to try to form a government following December’s inconclusive elections.
(4) In contrast, Willem-Alexander's investiture will take place in the Nieuwe Kerk church in Amsterdam's central Dam square.
(5) On Friday evening, 48 hours after falling six seats short of a majority in the 350-seat congress of deputies, Mariano Rajoy , the leader of the conservative People’s party (PP), lost a second investiture debate by the same margin as the first: 170 votes to 180.
(6) This should in principle allow the other parties to justify their abstention in an investiture vote to facilitate a PP-led administration.” The PSOE came second in Sunday’s election with 85 seats, the leftwing coalition Unidos Podemos third with 71 seats, and Ciudadanos fourth with 32.
(7) It was extremely unfortunate that it was interpreted as a personal criticism.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Mantel during her investiture by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
(8) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
(9) Just as Francis has shunned the grandeur of the papal apartment in favour of a simple room, so John Paul spoke in the first person, declined to be borne aloft on the papal throne (until he was pressured into it), refused a papal coronation in favour of a more low-key investiture, and sent the clearest of signals that he was a moderniser.
(10) People in morning coats and feathery hats arrive for a late lunch, no doubt straight from an investiture at nearby Buckingham Palace.
(11) Their deaths failed to prevent Prince Charles completing his investiture as Prince of Wales during a ceremony at Caernarvon Castle.
(12) If neither Rajoy nor any other candidate wins an investiture vote in congress within a two-month period, the king will dissolve parliament and call another election.
(13) In his outburst , recorded on a mobile phone, Mellor called the black-cab driver a “sweaty, stupid little shit” during an argument about the route he wanted to travel after picking up Mellor and his partner, Lady Cobham, from her investiture ceremony.
(14) The independence process will continue without the investiture of Mas,” the CUP’s Gabriela Serra told a press conference.
(15) "We are glad you made your nest in Nechin," said Estaimpuis's municipal mayor, Daniel Senesael, at Depardieu's Belgian investiture, prior to a post-ceremony barbecue at the actor's five-bedroom chateau with 200 fellow citizens of the town.
(16) González said that when the two met after the June election, Sánchez had told him that the PSOE would abstain in the second investiture vote, thereby facilitating the PP’s move to office.
(17) Bartholomew attended Francis’s investiture last year, the first ecumenical patriarch to attend such a ceremony in Rome since the two churches split almost 1,000 years ago.
(18) Keith Porteous Wood, the NSS executive director, said: "The country has changed out of all recognition since the last coronation and we should now be devising an investiture ceremony for the next head of state everyone can feel part of.
(19) The outburst by Mellor, who had accompanied his partner, the VisitEngland chairwoman, Lady Cobham, to an investiture ceremony with the Prince of Wales, was heard in a mobile phone recording given to the Sun newspaper.
(20) Other morphological features of the new species included tandem paruterine capsules, allometric growth of segments and the investiture of paruterine capsules by numerous elongate calcareous corpuscles.