How To Use Disaffected In A Sentence

The humorous tone is designed to encourage disaffected voters to take part. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
Disaffected eco-warriors around the world can now learn the lessons of a decade of resistance from Faslane Peace Camp and other UK protest sites, as a tunnel-builder's guide is published on the internet.
Some people will be disaffected with the Church, others are angry. Times, Sunday Times
China has in fact created this huge rallying point with I would imagine, millions of disaffected people.

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The rifts and disagreements were becoming public and the number of disaffected colleagues grew. Times, Sunday Times
This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
And they are very disaffected with a Labour Party they believe has deserted them.
The film features James Dean as a disaffected teenager.
Protest was dealt with through military force, followed by resettlement of disaffected peoples to reduce their potential for trouble. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X.
The disaffected right wing of the party is restless. Times, Sunday Times
The only way to oust the discredited leadership was by force, and so dissidents turned to groups of disaffected army officers for help. A Rock and a Hard Place
What we've got to guard against is the real threat of the extremists and the radicalisation of young disaffected prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, radical students espousing forms of Marxism, some combined with religious political rhetoric, joined the disaffected.
This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Reuters - WikiLeaks's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say. WikiLeaks Crippled By Ex-Associates, Sources Say
Reuters - WikiLeaks s ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers,... WikiLeaks Crippled By Ex-Associates, Sources Say
We know the system is wrong when there are so many disaffected voters.
Disaffected, dissatisfied adolescents are being kept away from the adult world for too long.
At a time when I was becoming very disaffected by the academicism of contemporary music, Louis's music showed that you can be sophisticated, adventurous, uncompromising, and utterly direct at the same time.
The disaffected mugger and the enraged cuckold were despised as lowbrows; the true craftsmen of murder inaugurated ever more elaborate schemes.
At this the disaffected cohorts proclaimed the name of their lawful sovereign; the Barbarians, astonished by the defection of their Roman allies, dispersed, according to their custom, in tumultuary flight; and Mascezel obtained the of an easy, and almost bloodless, victory. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Thank goodness I have other things to fret about, like disaffected youth and the plight of the inner cities. Times, Sunday Times
That sense of humor appeals to a more youthful audience because it makes fun of the totems of society that have really disaffected youthful voters.
They turn out not to be French spies but disaffected Romantic poets out on moonlit walks. Times, Sunday Times
Back in olden times, say the early 1990's, a time of linear media and a small clutch of manageable news outlets, candidates routinely pivoted right (in GOP primaries) and left (in Democratic primaries) knowing that for the general election they could slide towards the center to build the winning coalition of their own party faithful, plus independents and a sprinkling of disaffected voters from the other party. Fernando Espuelas: Meg Whitman's Big Fat Latino Problem
It was the disaffected young westerners moving into the endless possibilities of the East. Times, Sunday Times
Mary was what you call a disillusioned and disaffected Democrat. CNN Transcript May 31, 2008
If necessary we'll cook up a disaffected ex-employee, or something. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
More than three-thousand small rural communes were established by disaffected young people seeking a return to nature and the simple life.
The Lib Dems are failing to pick up disaffected liberal-left electors, and the Tories have flatlined since 2004.
League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 447 had to be coerced by the settlement of a cleruchy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
The high-ranking LBGT operative who passed the numbers along cited them as evidence that the gay community was not disaffected with the president prior to November's midterm elections and that they would not lose patience with Obama even if he fails to persuade Congress to move major agenda items in the years ahead. Poll: Obama Had Strong Standing With Gay Community Even Before DADT Repeal
Because Reyna's play looks so effortless, because his game is not full of breakneck sprints or fabulous runs on the ball, he might look like a slacker, a disaffected American youth in cleats. USATODAY.com - Europe loves Captain America
His lacerating lyrics set to heavy squalls of blues-rock riffage made a stand for disaffected youth everywhere. The Sun
If the Tories seem like the nasty party again, disaffected Labour folk could well slouch back home, albeit grudgingly.
Very often the authorities were forced to acknowledge the wrongs inflicted on disaffected communities.
The disconnect between the frenetic pace of creative destruction in the private sector and the calcified, operating-as - always approach in government helps account for disaffected young Obama supporters on one side and fed-up tea party members on the other. From Wikinomics to the Tea Party
She feels many people are disaffected with politics because they don't know what politicians do, or what councils do. Times, Sunday Times
* The White House-versus-left battle continues: Glenn Greenwald makes the case that the White House has every right to push back on lefty critics -- but he adds, and I agree, that pillorying or browbeating them isn't going to do jack to help Dem among base voters who are disaffected with Obama policies. The Morning Plum
In the early 1980s, skateboarding existed as a fringe sport, a kind of deviant activity undertaken by disaffected youths in California, breaking into abandoned lots or backyards to skate in empty swimming pools or on crudely constructed ramps.
On key issues like unemployment, the party is not sufficiently appealing to disaffected non-urban working class households.
This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
And there was I cocking behind a yadvocate that liked the business as little as myself, for it was fair ruin to the pair of us-a black mark, DISAFFECTED, branded on our hurdies, like folk's names upon their kye! David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
This caused him to become disaffected, and to embark on a career of petty theft. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Losing these families is the normal wear and tear of school life - although I would not pretend that we have not disaffected some people along the way.
They wandered past the sandwich shop, a raggle-taggle band of urban warriors, uniformed and disaffected, disillusioned, disowned.
Disaffected from school, he was getting into trouble for defiance and misbehavior in and out of school.
Yet by refusing to cede her role as a Hillary surrogate, and tirelessly fanning the fames of party disunity, she helped keep media attention on the myth that there were legions of disaffected Hillary voters whose allegiance was available for harvest by any candidate in a pantsuit. Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama
The notion that once enactment is forced, the public will suddenly embrace health-care reform could not be further from the truth — and is likely to become a rallying cry for disaffected Republicans, independents and, yes, Democrats. Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Plan Getting More Popular
The alibi at Westminster, in such situations, is that a disaffected member must stay, to represent his constituents.
But how far should we go to smuggle hard subjects into the minds of disaffected youth?
In key races, in battleground states that Obama won easily in 2008, he has been the point person for re-engaging the disaffected base, particularly in urban areas. Obama makes closing arguments before Election Day
Dissent may have challenged nationalism, but the presence of neutrals, the disaffected, and Tories never completely superseded the wider community of interests.
Even disaffected peers like the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shaftesbury used this chamber to voice much of their dissatisfaction.
Small wonder that our youth are disaffected. Times, Sunday Times
But since then the group has failed to attract the number of disaffected provisionals it had hoped.
The soldiers were disaffected toward the government.
Since his elevation, he has resorted to cheap populism in an effort to win back disaffected working class voters.
The party needs to take steps to attract disaffected voters.
Likewise, democracy empowers disaffected minorities to speak out and assert themselves along ethnic, religious, or tribal lines.
clannish" tendencies, have a certain democratic bias as well (chiefly, perhaps, evidenced and fostered by their religious organization); and the Irish, disaffected as they are towards England having so numerous and so close ties, through the emigration movement, with the United The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
American Splendor has, in its sarky and diffident way, some pretty serious things to say about the disaffected and the disenfranchised in American society, alienated from their jobs and their lives.
He has shown a deft touch in appealing to young, disaffected and floating voters disgusted with the political class. Times, Sunday Times
While he may come across as disaffected and aloof off stage, he and his band are a powerhouse on stage, and have crafted several sensational albums of anthemic songs.
When candles are brought into the tent at night, the servant wishes the company a good evening: he says "_M'sah elkhere_," the literal meaning of which is "_Good be with you this evening_;" which salutation it is courteous to return, even to a slave; and if any one, however great his rank, were not to return it, he would be considered a bad muselman, a disaffected and inhospitable barbarian. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
There is also the minority of highly disaffected young men who want to control their patches.
It was the disaffected young westerners moving into the endless possibilities of the East. Times, Sunday Times
Of those who absented themselves, he said that many in their second year of secondary school felt disaffected by the education system.
Consumers are angry and suspicious, many health care workers are frustrated and disaffected.
Over in Japan, FAUST is considered a "mook" - that's a magazine and a book - speaking to the disaffected otaku culture, with a mix of cutting-edge fiction and manga. Bookgasm
Known for disaffected characters who wile their lives away in seedy Bronx watering holes, Shanley's plays are populated with monologues and dialogues that have been mined for years by young acting students.
His raw, blunt style appeals to the disaffected, the outcast, the romantic, the loner and the apolitical, and it always will.
In turn, voters become disaffected, with many seeing participation in the political process as meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, he was appealing not only to environmentalist Greens and anomic "disaffecteds" -- two groups that helped him score upsets in Maine and Colorado -- but to a broad swatch of America. The Method In His Madness
Like many bands playing earnestly banal semi-derived emo schlock they've connected with an audience of disaffected youth who find comfort in their cranked up pop music and simplistic lyrics.
His approach earned considerable funds for the school but disaffected most of the staff, who hated the idea of advertising dominating aesthetics.
The problem is the disengaged and disaffected women, especially single women, who say neither candidate speaks to their lives.
No, it's not an uprising of disaffected yoof, but, predictably, an artwork. Times, Sunday Times
There have also been scandals surrounding disaffected agents.
He said dealing with disaffected youth was also a priority.
Disaffected from school, he was getting into trouble for defiance and misbehavior in and out of school.
Still, there are plenty of disaffected people turning to jazz.
It was an hour long comedy/drama about a smart, disaffected, sarcastic girl in her early twenties who had graduated from Brown University and, completely unmotivated, worked in a gift shop at Niagara Falls.
It is also easy to understand why residents are disaffected.
Whatever has disaffected a substantial section of the support has mystified the manager and has clearly unsettled some of his players.
Ferguson's departure ago must be seen as the key catalyst for Rangers' slide since and it has subsequently disaffected other senior players such as Moore.
There have been rumblings of discontent among national further education unions about what some characterise as the ‘dumping’ of disaffected school kids in colleges.
The teacher said that he found it difficult to cope with a class of disaffected teenagers.
Eddie has been instrumental in working with disaffected young people in the area, inspiring pride in the local community.
Processions aroused particular ire among republicans, but disaffected the faithful who regarded this as an insensitive attack upon tradition.
Margo, the other day I wrote to you about being a disaffected Australian.
The streets of London thronged with disaffected and disgruntled youth. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
Skinny, pasty-faced and dressed from head to toe in black complete with woolly hat rammed down on his head, Hamlet is the epitome of a disaffected philosophy student.
If you want to reach the disaffected youths who take to the streets to heave bricks at the police, you need to have a dialogue.
Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
Scotland being again rescued from the vengeance of her implacable foe, the disaffected lords in the citadel affected to spurn at her preservation, declaring to the regent that they would rather bear the yoke of the veriest tyrant in the world, than owe a moment of freedom to the man who (they pretended to believe) had conspired against their lives. The Scottish Chiefs
The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
Harper's not going to alienate the social conservatives of any other group of disaffected voters.
Here, with a cohort of equally disaffected friends, he indulges in some minor delinquency and dreams of the day when he will escape to the big city. Times, Sunday Times
You might find moments of optimism hidden among Tweedy's disaffected, disconnected lyrics.
There is also little sign of co - ordination among different disaffected groups.
The disaffected right wing of the party is restless. Times, Sunday Times
Non-violent, collective protest has become the weapon of choice for the disaffected across the former Soviet bloc.
The disaffected Tories cheered when Taylor lost - expecting that Jones would be a one term MP and that they would get their (caucasian) candidate back into the seat in 1997 ... Army Rumour Service
It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence.
The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
Like the swarms of people who flock to Web sites devoted to the study of genealogy, company owners who fall into their life's work through happenstance or inheritance may feel rootless, even disaffected.
A discourse, in which the fundamental topic was thus conscientiously omitted, was not likely, with all its concinnities, to make much impression upon the disaffected knights, or to exert a soothing influence upon the people. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66)
The Left had turned from the politics of agency to a disaffected "spectatorial" politics which placed progressives outside the realm and the expectations of practical reform. Robert F. Bauer: Richard Rorty and the Riches of Progressive Argument
Blood, ironically playing the part of a sheriff who persecutes the disaffected Vietnam vet played by Sylvester Stallone. ARTHUR REX CRANE
Currently, disaffected pupils can drop two subjects to spend up to a day a week in the workplace.
The party needs to take steps to attract disaffected voters.
Point to this program, and a bevy of bugbears, from disaffected employees to muckraking journalists, will disappear.
As has been the case in so many countries, basketball can be a good shelter for unsure and disaffected youth, helping them to keep fit. Times, Sunday Times
The disaffected mugger and the enraged cuckold were despised as lowbrows; the true craftsmen of murder inaugurated ever more elaborate schemes.
He declared that the citizens of Boston ‘were disaffected to the Laws of the Land’ and were in a state of ‘open Rebellion, Disobedience, and Disloyalty,’ and that the clergy were foremost in ‘oppugning the Authority of the Laws of the Land.’
I worry that if people are disaffected with the Church, they are less likely to increase their spend on luxury deliveries. Times, Sunday Times
His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age. Jura Duty
It has a particular resonance among the disaffected middle classes, who have become increasingly anxious and insecure as a result of wider social and political shifts over the past decade.
For the Earls of Southampton and Essex and for many literate English Protestants, Venice was the model of republican government, the alternative to monarchy for disaffected subjects of Elizabeth.
A spokesman for the disaffected crew said he expected the tribunal to reveal the volunteers have a strong case.
The disaffected right wing of the party is restless. Times, Sunday Times
His father is a perennially disaffected man.
They are among many terrorist groups using the Internet to extend their reach to radicalize disaffected youth into forming their own terror cells to bypass improved security measures.
The guitars are flat and muted, the vocals spare and disaffected, and the theatrical, climactic scream-along choruses are absent.
Chong Mong-ju disaffected half the provincial priesthood, until they pilgrimaged in processions a mile long to the palace gates and frightened the Emperor into a panic. Chapter 15
PRT members based in Karbala and Babil provinces said the Iraqi government's controversial decision to ban more than 400 candidates from participating in the election because of purported ties to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party may motivate some disaffected Shiite voters to head to the polls. U.S. official: Election of 'enormous' importance to Iraq
He would be labeled a disaffected nonperson, fired from his teaching position, and possibly harassed by some ultra-revolutionary neighbors. OUTCAST

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