How To Use Enfranchise In A Sentence

It was not to deprive, to disenfranchise people.
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
Even early American democracy would get low marks by contemporary standards since there was no enfranchisement for the majority of the population.
The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
For example, if the powers that be want to disenfranchise you or make you unemployable, that's one sure way to do it.

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But vote groups are concerned asking people for more information could disenfranchise legitimate voters on election day.
The Women's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote.
Didn't Clinton herself agree to "disenfranchise" the voters of MI and FL in the fall of 2007? Florida court throws out DNC suit
Mr West said he had advised clients with residential and commercial property on letting and leasehold enfranchisement matters.
She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
The Party is dead and working class people have been cruelly disenfranchised.
Maybe it's time for both the globalists and anti-globalists to consider what the poorer and disenfranchised have already worked out.
I had one reader who told me he was reading it outside one day when a ned came up to him -- "ned" being Scots for ... um ... think as disenfranchised as you can get -- the juvenile delinquents from our equivalent of the projects, shell-suited gangs into Buckfast and hard drugs, petty theft and hassling strangers, the type of person that is to your average SF/Fantasy reader as a hyena is to a gazelle. More Aesthetics
Neither the religion nor the region will be the same if women are enfranchised and empowered.
It has disenfranchised many people from the sport. Times, Sunday Times
Porter -- who Time described as a pert, brown-eyed, dark haired, nail-biting, chain-smoking, go-getter -- helped enfranchise American women to the investment world, teaching them core concepts and strategies so they need not ask for a man's help to take the reins of what Porter termed "pocketbook issues. Pamela Yellen: When "Women and Financial Literacy" Was Still an Oxymoron, Sylvia Porter Came to the Rescue
In the future, after global warming has made cities the only safe places to live, large sections of the world are closed to disenfranchised people who have to live in deserts.
And if there is a referendum in Britain it will be so close as to leave the issue undecided and half the country feeling resentful and disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
Now he has been forced to concede that only those sentenced to less than a year should be enfranchised. Votes for prisoners: Bang to rights | Editorial
Disenfranchisement in the first sense relates to the virtual exclusion of certain substantive issues from the ordinary political agenda.
Visitors to the blog of Ian Bone, the founder of Class War, discuss this: Surely the definition of an 'anarchist' in Belgravia is a leaseholder with less than 70 years left to run on his lease who can't afford to enfranchise; or perhaps a leaseholder who has to actually live in his flat rather than renting it out and living in Venice. Hugh Muir's diary
The trouble is not that the people are disenfranchised, it is that the people's representatives are disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
Y'all disenfranchise and marginalize the black man and you expect him to bear his chafe?
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
That must surely give comfort to minority groups or to non-whites who feel disenfranchised.
The trouble is not that the people are disenfranchised, it is that the people's representatives are disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
The disenfranchised people were turned into a resource, worth only the market price of their labour power.
But he considers it wrong that rugby's heartlands are being ignored and substantial areas disenfranchised, purely for financial expediency. Times, Sunday Times
The problem with poor turnouts has nothing to do with the hassle of getting to a polling station, and everything to do with people feeling unrepresented and disenfranchised.
He commented that an effort is made not to over-represent a particular demographic, but that it is true that ‘many notes are from people that are downtrodden or disenfranchised.’
It has disenfranchised many people from the sport. Times, Sunday Times
By giving an equal voice to all, it empowers many of those who are disenfranchised economically or socially and who would not otherwise be heard. Computing
This last winter, at its annual meeting, the Conference of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the coordinating body of Jewish voluntary fund-raising for Israel and local community needs all over the country, said quite flatly, in a public resolution, that policies which disenfranchise the rabbis of the nonorthodox majority of American Jewry are hurting the fundraising for Israel. Begin and the Jews: An Exchange
As a nation of the disenfranchised, freaks, and outsiders, we can identify with the yearning to fit in somewhere.
But as long as the political monopoly of the slaveholders was broken, enfranchised blacks would have the power to prevent the re-emergence of aristocracy and inequality.
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
And besides, relying on a popular vote argument "disenfranchises" (to use a Clintonian term appropriately, for a change) all the participants in all the caucus states, the results from which are not reflected in any of the popular vote totals. Report: Michigan Re-Vote In Trouble
We have been ignored, disenfranchised and we are disenchanted!
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
This was an application by the Lessor for determination of the price for enfranchisement of the subject property under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.
But as generations proceeded, and the relationships within the family diverged beyond the degree of second cousin, a natural breaking up seems to have taken place, though in the direction of subinfeudation under the feudal enforcement of the rule of primogeniture, instead of the practice, more in accordance with tribal instincts, of equal division and enfranchisement. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
For Stowe, this French colonial tendency to enfranchise mixed-race slaves went hand-in-hand with the history of French slave rebellion.
Palin has been disenfranchised from the Tea Baggers and yet she insists that she will speak at their meeting. Think Progress » Boehner Feigns Ignorance That His GOP Retreat Is Attended By Goldman Sachs, Other Corporate Lobbyists
Sadly, but predictably, the effort to re-enfranchise people with felony convictions has come under attack from demagogues claiming a cynical political motive for the effort.
There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life! Behind the Bungalow
The rush to fix the latest glitches followed Comelec's revelation that it had evidence of a plot to disenfranchise voters by exploiting their unfamiliarity with the machine-countable ballot forms.
The only way she is winning the popular vote is to "disenfranchise" (that's right I said it Hillary) the 200 some odd thousand voters in MI that went for Obama. Clinton reviewing 'options' - but says superdelegates could shift
Barack Obama is in Florida to raise money from voters whom he has worked hard to disenfranchise from the Democratic Party’s nomination process. Carter: Obama-Clinton ticket unlikely
As I see it, real enfranchisement is an opportunity to participate in the selection of the nation’s political leaders in a way that has at least some chance of affecting the result, not merely having your votes “counted.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Could National Juries Alleviate the Problem of Political Ignorance?
They can be a great metaphor for any feared, misunderstood, disenfranchised group. Times, Sunday Times
They can be a great metaphor for any feared, misunderstood, disenfranchised group. Times, Sunday Times
The slaves, who were liberated by a generous master, immediately entered into the middle class of libertines or freedmen; but they could never be enfranchised from the duties of obedience and gratitude; whatever were the fruits of their industry, their patron and his family inherited the third part; or even the whole of their fortune, if they died without children and without a testament. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Obama could not seal the deal with the actual voters - even advantaged by caucus formats and disenfranchised voters in Fl and Mi - so now he needs the help of superdelegates. Obama continues to narrow Clinton's superdelegate lead
And it seems that there is a concerted effort lead by Democrats and parroted by the media, to disenfranchise us.
It disenfranchises and oppressed most of those that are supposedly part of the rescue. Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
It disenfranchises many voters in California.
This is the eighth measure proposing female enfranchisement that the South Australian Parliament has considered.
The Minnesota tradition in law [is] to enfranchise people, and their decision disenfranchises many Minnesotans whose votes have been wrongly rejected," said Coleman legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg. Unappealing
If the voters of Florida and Michigan are upset, and feel disenfranchised the correct place to take up their concerns is at the govenors mansion. paul DNC faces big challenge Saturday
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States has docketed Igartua, et al.v. United States of America (P-776-06) and Rossello, et al.v. United States of America (P-1105-06) as violations of human rights for the disenfranchisement of "four million American citizens". Puerto Rico voting ban lands USA in international court: 6th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Among the many questions following the confusing president election is whether some African-American voters were disenfranchised.
Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century
Also, the cases are disanalogous: you cannot legitimately compare the situation of a disenfranchised group to that group that aggressively manufactured said disenfranchisement over the past 500 years. Think Progress » Fifty-five years after Brown v. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation.
Their exactions at last became unendurable, and a long struggle broke out between them and the burghers, which resulted in what is known as the enfranchisement of the towns. General History for Colleges and High Schools
OnFebruary 24th the Senate voted to begin debate ona bill enfranchise Washingtonians.
People do not like being disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
She describes her students, mostly poor and minority, as "dissed" -- "disenfranchised, discouraged and dismissed. StarTribune.com rss feed
This is the second year we have been disenfranchised by this inept system and incompetence behind its planning.
The North's new Electoral Fraud Act may disenfranchise some voters in the run-up to the Assembly elections, according to the parties there.
It is suing to block the use of the punchcard ballots, claiming the system is faulty and disenfranchises minority voters.
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
In sum, natural independence and/or communal enfranchisement upon a rent-free, unmortgaged, plot is not a condition which defines wage-laboring majorities in the post-industrial age. FROM ENCLOSURE TO FORECLOSURE �� How Today's Capitalism Ruins Society, Economy, and Environment
Key to the success of such narratives is the existence of a disenfranchised population who want to be liberated and can be re-imagined as legitimate wielders of state power.
Linking human trafficking and torture victims to consenting adult sex work and focusing attention on the first to disenfranchise the second disenfranchises both. Survivors, trafficking and Piggybacking politics « Bound, Not Gagged
The idea would be that small investors who have previously been disenfranchised would be given a voice. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most disenfranchised groups in health care is older people with psychotic disorders.
The property qualification for voting was abolished and women were enfranchised in 1893.
Through the Civil War, Sumner and Wilson strongly supported the military, and pushed President Abraham Lincoln to emancipate and enfranchise the slaves.
After 1860, the trend across Europe was to widen the male electorate and enfranchise women for local elections.
Environmentalists are failing to attract the disenfranchised, the disempowered, the dispossessed and the disengaged.
The combined effects of disenfranchisement laws, inmate population trends and economic realities perpetuate a racial divide in society.
One would think that with the abolition of property requirements and poll taxes, the enfranchisement of people of color, women, and 18-year-olds, the battle for the right to vote had been won.
It's only relatively recently we've seen this surge of activity, in large part, I think, because the scale of disenfranchised is so much greater now because of the explosion of the criminal justice system over the last several decades. Convicted Felons Want The Right To Vote
The document is supposed to protect the disenfranchised from the enforcement arm of the state. April Fool’s, Justice Cosgrove! Clean Out Your Desk. : Law is Cool
The property qualification for voting was abolished and women were enfranchised in 1893.
The poorest and most disenfranchised members of the community may have different perspectives than the well-off, who exist even in urban slums.
She draws a parallel between the disenfranchised state of women and minorities in the nineteenth century and into the present.
If you don't get your name on the electoral register you may be disenfranchised.
In the eleventh century, many slaves were enfranchised, the greater part of whom settled in cities.
People feel pretty disenfranchised from the world around them - mostly their voices - their opinions - don't really matter in the slightest.
I've believe the exodus of good steady manufacturing jobs are at the crux of the spiritual disenfranchisement we are experiencing in our nation.
The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
He is finally supported by the poor, the disenfranchised, all black people who will vouch for this old white man, descendant of the plantocracy of Jamaica. Calabash, The Third Day : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
In other words, many people will have given up in confusion, disenfranchised by the pig-headed insistence on the procedure by a Government which has turned what was once a simple, enjoyable experience into a bureaucratic nightmare.
Yet somehow no other country similarly disenfranchises residents of its capital. Matthew Yglesias » DC Statehood
“I do sense that you are invested in felon disenfranchisement for some reason, like I am invested in having a universal franchise ….” Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy
Roman voters didn't want to enfranchise the Italians either, because it would water down their own votes.
Perhaps more importantly, Ms Johnson Sirleaf has not been able to dispel the sense of disenfranchisement felt by many indigenous Liberians.
It happens all too often in large cities where people tend to live disenfranchised lives. Christianity Today
White supremacists devise new methods to disenfranchise Negroes.
They can be a great metaphor for any feared, misunderstood, disenfranchised group. Times, Sunday Times
The camera is objective enough in framing the size of the structure, in presenting its countless lifeless and identical compartments, but again the horror arises from the severe possibility of disenfranchisement gone awry. Weekend Weirdness Review: Tony - London Serial Killer | /Film
Substance abusers may be particularly likely to be disenfranchised from key societal institutions including the church.
A bloody civil war that practically tore the country in twain led to the enfranchisement of black former slaves.
Enfranchisement of slaves, often in a body, and ransom of slaves and captives became works of piety.
By using their weird caucusing (which disenfranchises old people & working people due to the time commitment) and their soviet-style party bosses, they are about to again nominate an unelectable figure. Exit Polls: Clinton gains edge among independents
It has disenfranchised many people from the sport. Times, Sunday Times
A viable solution must recognize and deal with the sense of disenfranchisement that motivates much terrorism, especially among Islamic populations.
Only recently, one only has to look at them, to listen to them hiss and mewl about Haiti, about the poor and disenfranchised. Steven Weber: The War on Hope
A common and altogether natural error into which the negroes soon fell after their enfranchisement was the belief that the Republican party of the North was securely lodged in governmental control, and that it was unreservedly committed to the maintenance of their political rights against their late The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
Born of the Great Depression, the brothers were unhinged maniacs with no roots, no ties, no responsibilities, fighting back on behalf of the disenfranchised little man.
The final image of Wikus stuck in the slum eating dog food with the rest of the disenfranchised is pretty potent stuff. The 11 « Gerry Canavan
The african americans had their vote disenfranchised, yes, I do not disagree that point however this is not the reason why kerry or Gore lost the Election, rather it had more to do with Kerry and Gore not standing up for themselves for fear that they would ruin their political careers. Conversations with the Young and Politically Motivated
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
Nowadays, women who are doing much work out in the big world -- the so-called "enfranchised" women -- are many of them proving that they find housework no detriment to their careers and some even admit that they enjoy it. American Cookery November, 1921
After enfranchisement there was virtually nothing approximating a 'freedman' status.
After women were enfranchised, women's political organisations such as the New South Wales based Women's Political Education League established classes in speaking and debating and ran schools for citizenship.
He should give some thought to the millions of viewers disenfranchised by the sell-out.
Christians; for such enfranchisement is doubtless a benefit so far as it may be compatible with truth and piety. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The tone is balanced, despite the author's sympathy for the causes of the disenfranchised.
Ergo it doesnt matter whow Amanda interpreted Limbaughs disenfranchised decoder ring gibberish. Think Progress » Republicans use failed terrorist attack as excuse to further delay Dawn Johnsen’s confirmation.
Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
The definition had to identify the individual units within a building which were to be available for enfranchisement.
Because so many voters were disenfranchised four years ago, Congress voted to require that all states provide provisional ballots to everyone who turns up to vote but is not listed on the rolls.
There is a definite link between the work women did in World War One and their enfranchisement in 1918.
The easiest and cheapest way to revote is to caucus, but Hillary and Monster Inc said no, they obviously want to disenfranchise the voters of Michigan and Florida. In Meeting, Dean Promises Florida Pols He'll Get Delegation Seated -- No Specific Ideas Discussed
Today, it means the voice of the disenfranchised alumni crying in the wilderness, paco ; "The wind of freedom blows." "No, that slogan blows."
Disenfranchisement case to be heard in Nevada tomo ... Rumblings on damaged state of US economy
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.
Knowing the depth of impact of digital literacy on low-income kids, Watkins is now focusing his efforts on figuring out how to connect these skills to what he calls "civic outcomes" -- issues that have a direct bearing on disenfranchised communities. Tina Barseghian: For At-Risk Youth, Is Learning Digital Media a Luxury?
The movement in that college to set up a dictatorship where there was once a JCR sees the dream of student enfranchisement replaced with sheer pragmatism.
The issue was only resolved by the enfranchisement of allies who had not participated or had laid down their arms (the historic Julian law of 90).
The library's main aim is to educate and inspire disenfranchised children who have seen arts education cut from their school curricula, said library and foundation president Valerie Ervin. Ray Charles Memorial Library Open In L.A.
Many Democratic voters have nursed feelings of anger and disenfranchisement for the past four years.
He was to celebrate the inauguration in Florida speaking up for the black voters who feel disenfranchised.
The working class has been politically disenfranchised, and faces a full frontal assault on its jobs, living standards and democratic rights whatever the final composition of the next government.
Lynching was instituted to crush the manhood of the enfranchised black.
It was not just those most disenfranchised members of our society, the children, who were patronized, humoured and ignored.
They will not suddenly enfranchise women, hold elections and step aside from power.
Thus redistribution without enfranchisement is not a credible alternative and does little to alleviate the threat of revolution. Shimer on Acemoglu, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
To date the drug war has focused primarily on inner cities and the politically disenfranchised minorities who live there.
Such chivalry, it would seem, is an insult to the power and intelligence of the women of Utah, who celebrated their "enfranchisement" by a convention to favor the free coinage of silver, 16 to 1, and whose behavior on that occasion was, to say the least, boyish. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates
Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
Libya's new government "will by definition disenfranchise religious minorities" and women. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Dave watched a friend be completely disenfranchised by the parents of his late partner - he was even excluded from the funeral.
I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Citizens who do not know how to use multimedia will become disenfranchised.
In the democratic contest that matters most to the world, the world is disenfranchised.
Europe's voters have been effectively disenfranchised by a cunning bureaucracy that finds ways to avoid consulting them. Times, Sunday Times
It's time to reach out to the increasing number of disenfranchised and disillusioned Americans.
Whilst the main parties vie for support amongst the wealthy, the working class has been politically disenfranchised and is bereft of any means of articulating its independent interests.
Those who study protoctists, nucleated microorganisms and their immediate descendants exclusive of animals, plants and fungi, are disenfranchised.
The DNC has to determine how to approportion the delegates for the national convention from 2 states that violated the primary process independent of voters 'enfranchisement'. Obama Campaign Calls For 50-50 Split Of Michigan Delegates
As if aware that their vote made little difference, more than half of the 3 million enfranchised Hong Kong people stayed away from polling stations.
It's a very disenfranchised neighbourhood and it needs as much community space and organising as possible.
Since when did the term disenfranchised come to mean my guy didn't win? CNN Transcript - Special Event: THE SPIN ROOM: Do You Know Who Your Next President is? - November 9, 2000
There were two main ways in which manumission, or enfranchisement as it was more commonly known in the Spanish colonies, could be achieved.
The sexual citizen from the ranks of youth demands enfranchisement, including full sexual rights.
Other people living near GM trial sites are similarly disenfranchised.
One reason may have been the passage in 1965 of the Voting Rights Act, which quickly and effectively enfranchised Southern blacks who had been barred from the polls for many years.
Europe's voters have been effectively disenfranchised by a cunning bureaucracy that finds ways to avoid consulting them. Times, Sunday Times
I agree K, BOTH candidates should have been concerned about the plight of the disenfranchised from the very beginning and not when it favored one or the other. Obama calls Edwards delegates in South Carolina
The institution had been wiped out in New England, not by enfranchisement, but by sale to the people of the South, when no longer useful or valuable at home; and all the sin of slavery had followed the slave, to barbarize and degrade the people of the South. The Memories of Fifty Years
In other words, many people will have given up in confusion, disenfranchised by the pig-headed insistence on the procedure by a Government which has turned what was once a simple, enjoyable experience into a bureaucratic nightmare.
The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
The enfranchisement of part of a building has the effect of separating the freehold titles to different parts of a single structure.
With the fervor of the vinously disenfranchised, Riesling lovers have long worshiped the trinity of Germany, Austria and Alsace.
I do sense that you are invested in felon disenfranchisement for some reason, like I am invested in having a universal franchise. Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy
The rush to fix the latest glitches followed Comelec's revelation that it had evidence of a plot to disenfranchise voters by exploiting their unfamiliarity with the machine-countable ballot forms.
Listen to the radio, and there's the man talking about the racist plot to disenfranchise black voters during the election.
And just in case you have not entirely made up your mind, remember what happened in the US elections when thousands of voters were disenfranchised in Florida.
It has disenfranchised many people from the sport. Times, Sunday Times
If we count the votes in FL and MI and do not "disenfranchise" those voters – how are the voter's in the caucas states to be "counted" in order for them not to be "disenfranchised? Clinton says she expects lead in popular vote, primary delegates
To speak to the disenfranchised youth of Britain. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the postwar era, desperate and disenfranchised young people in developing countries sought solace in communism.
For all their influence on American culture, they haven't tackled big challenges such as poverty, police brutality, voting disenfranchisement and the racist prison complex.
In other words, it shows that the poor are once again disenfranchised!!!!! cmoore Protest planned before hearing in Florida lawsuit
Further, these "shut down the vote" campaigns harken back to Operation Eagle Eye, when a young attorney named William Rehnquist led a team of Republicans who disenfranchised black and Latino overs in Phoenix. David A. Love: The Corporate Financing of Voter Suppression
Often very funny, there is a sadness at the heart of this film, that of disenfranchised people who still carry the weight of the past. Times, Sunday Times
Without question, Obama's Administration will reshape the good-ole-boys' club we have seen for centuries, altering the political terrain, and it may very well spawn new hope for the disenfranchised.
In the USA of course, prisoners have been disenfranchised in many states for yonks, and it is considered normal.
Readers familiar with Roosevelt ' s " Autobiography " — or other TR biographies — will be stunned to read Mr. Morris claiming that Roosevelt and progressives of his class looked down, with " aristocratic fastidiousness, " on " poor whites, and at the dreg level, imported coolies, reservation Indians, and disenfranchised blacks. Bull Moose In Twilight
Uh so as this profound sense of disappointment and disenfranchisement that seems to come with each cycle.
White women of British origin were newly enfranchised; their goals were equal rights, higher education and jobs in the new helping professions.
Often very funny, there is a sadness at the heart of this film, that of disenfranchised people who still carry the weight of the past. Times, Sunday Times
Civil discourse and outreach work in ensure these communities do no feel alienated and disenfranchised. Obama hosts Muslim-focused entrepreneurship summit
And as with so many wars of attrition against the working class, this one begins by shafting disenfranchised communities, especially immigrants. Michelle Chen: Children of Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in Congress
a disenfranchised generation of precariat youth
Women over 30 were enfranchised in 1918; and women over 21 received the vote in 1928.
They must also explain their policies to the Hispanics who are enfranchised.
Elections have been stolen and voters disenfranchised with paper ballots, too.
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
The party's decline is a function of a deliberate and sustained attempt to disenfranchise the working class, which has provided the political basis for an unprecedented growth of social inequality.
I do think that privilege almost always ties into - isms, since very infrequently is one either totally privileged or totally disenfranchised — we all have overlapping identities that may be at once in the majority and in the minority. Fucking hell. « Love | Peace | Ohana
Apparently the weather forecast will no longer show wind unless it's significant, and they've ditched isobars and fronts as they disenfranchise the thickos.
Bloggers already dealt this year with so-called disenfranchised men whining that they need their own TV network.
I was childishly elated to be on the electoral roll for the first time, after 20 years of residential disenfranchisement.
In pagan antiquity wholesale enfranchisements are frequent, but they never include all the owner's slaves, end they are always by testamentary disposition -- that is when the owner cannot be impoverished by his own bounty, (Justinian, "Inst.", The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

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