How To Use Enfranchised In A Sentence

Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
The Women's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote.
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.

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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
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
The trouble is not that the people are disenfranchised, it is that the people's representatives are disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
We have been ignored, disenfranchised and we are disenchanted!
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
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.
You name the disenfranchised group, she's campaigned on their behalf. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
Environmentalists are failing to attract the disenfranchised, the disempowered, the dispossessed and the disengaged.
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.
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.
It happens all too often in large cities where people tend to live disenfranchised lives. Christianity Today
They can be a great metaphor for any feared, misunderstood, disenfranchised group. Times, Sunday Times
Substance abusers may be particularly likely to be disenfranchised from key societal institutions including the church.
It has disenfranchised many people from the sport. Times, Sunday Times
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
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 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.
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?
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.
Today, it means the voice of the disenfranchised alumni crying in the wilderness, paco ; "The wind of freedom blows." "No, that slogan blows."
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 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.
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.
To date the drug war has focused primarily on inner cities and the politically disenfranchised minorities who live there.
Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
Dave watched a friend be completely disenfranchised by the parents of his late partner - he was even excluded from the funeral.
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.
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
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
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
With the fervor of the vinously disenfranchised, Riesling lovers have long worshiped the trinity of Germany, Austria and Alsace.
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.
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
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
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
Bloggers already dealt this year with so-called disenfranchised men whining that they need their own TV network.
He suggested the nomination " threw salt on the wounds of the thousands of Floridians whose voting rights were disenfranchised during the election.
Under such a system, every citizen including the 50 million who are now unregistered would be automatically enfranchised. Curtis Gans: A Proposed Solution to Voter ID Controversy
But then the disenfranchised men waged war and the ensuing chaos is with us still.
But he considers it wrong that rugby's heartlands are being ignored and substantial areas disenfranchised, purely for financial expediency. Times, Sunday Times
Now there was a practice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious masters in order to make them capable of the bounty, (as citizens,) and yet under the condition of transferring to their emancipators whatsoever they should receive; _ina ton dæmosios d domenon siton lambanontes chata mæna -- pherosi tois dedochasi tæn eleutherian_ says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order that after receiving the corn given publicly in every month, they might carry it to those who had bestowed upon them their freedom. The Caesars
The trouble is not that the people are disenfranchised, it is that the people's representatives are disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
Now there was a practice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious masters in order to make them capable of the bounty, (as citizens,) and yet under the condition of transferring to their emancipators whatsoever they should receive; _ina ton dæmosios d domenon siton lambanontes chata mæna -- pherosi tois dedochasi tæn eleutherian_ says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order that after receiving the corn given publicly in every month, they might carry it to those who had bestowed upon them their freedom. The Caesars
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 idea that if we create a fairer more forgiving society with a fully supportive social system the disenfranchised will lift themselves oput of the mire is frankly just not true anymore. Final Fantasy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
We disenfranchised viewers could then help to fund the roll out of fibre-optic lines to rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
While the revival of form and narrative among young literary poets could be dismissed by critical tastemakers as benighted antiquarianism and intellectual pretension," Gioia writes, "its universal adoption as the prosody-of-choice by disenfranchised urban blacks. . .is impossible to dismiss in such simplistic ideological terms. Is Rap Poetry?
And Florida's Supreme Court rejected the argument that voters are disenfranchised when provisional ballots they cast in the wrong precincts are not counted.
For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils — one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth, and forget the past in my union with her. Chapter 18
To speak to the disenfranchised youth of Britain. Times, Sunday Times
The trouble is not that the people are disenfranchised, it is that the people's representatives are disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
To speak to the disenfranchised youth of Britain. Times, Sunday Times
Europe's voters have been effectively disenfranchised by a cunning bureaucracy that finds ways to avoid consulting them. Times, Sunday Times
That must surely give comfort to minority groups or to non-whites who feel disenfranchised.
There has also been much criticism of holding the vote midweek, which meant many students were disenfranchised from casting their vote.
They can be a great metaphor for any feared, misunderstood, disenfranchised group. Times, Sunday Times
To speak to the disenfranchised youth of Britain. Times, Sunday Times
A quarter of a million slaves were liberated and enfranchised in the Caribbean, while a new port settlement was also established in 1849 at Libreville in the Gabon for former slaves.
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
Some disenfranchised minority voters also complain of police harassment.
Dublin is harbouring a posse of disenfranchised closet cowboys, hollering for a dedicated country music radio service.
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
Only males aged 21 or older who owned, leased, or rented a freehold estate or dwelling above a specified value were enfranchised under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852.
It was an epic failure and Lindsay should probably revisit that time now that he is feeling matterless/disenfranchised. Think Progress » Graham Falsely Claims GOP Has Only Used Reconciliation With ‘Bipartisan Support’
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.
Although the political scene continues to be dominated by nationalist demagogues, there are signs that a significant section of voters feel disenfranchised as a result.
Women and slaves were not given the vote and qualifications limited the number of men enfranchised.
This has left the working class disenfranchised, with no political mechanism through which to articulate their independent interests.
Indeed only he believed that women should be enfranchised at this time.
The 1857 Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes that "enfranchised" men over 21 who met specific criteria, not only stripped them of their Indian status, but that of their wives and children as well. Progressive Bloggers
But it's that unclear set of requisites that makes a meeting between the empowered and the disenfranchised so impossible.
A general synod can alone consummate the union of the churches; nor can such a synod be held till the three Oriental patriarchs, and a great number of bishops, are enfranchised from the Mahometan yoke. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Bismarck taught the king to bury the Prussian towns in an avalanche of votes from newly enfranchised and resentful peasants, who he rallied with demagogic rhetoric, calling the perfectly reasonable Prussian liberals "loafers, freebooters, all sorts of scum. The Shrewdest of the Shrewd
New Scientist reported Juma as saying that modern communication technologies such as teleconferences, email and internet, could turn disenfranchised expatriates into a valuable resource - and that many were desperate to help. ANC Daily News Briefing
Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a marginal existence in equatorial climates.
So far its new policy has designedly disenfranchised many eligible disabled and chronically ill students.
He knows he deliberately disenfranchised farmers - and they have long memories.
Throughout the six-week election campaign, the working class has been completely disenfranchised.
Can anyone tell me, please, how it is that those who once felt "franchised" now feel "disenfranchised" because a single door has been opened to allow others at the table of grace? Kanouse writes with `heavy heart' of Lutherans' decision on gay pastors | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Such people, the powerless, are easy prey, for those who stalk the political landscape, searching for scapegoats onto whom the angry and disenfranchised, whether socially or economically, can be sooled, as we say where I come from.
The Department of Justice determined that there was no impropriety whatsoever, and that voters were not disenfranchised.
Florida is home to 400,000 of these disenfranchised voters.
In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.
Where sightseers once splashed about in silly algorithmic frotteurism, they will be treated this summer to an $85,000 community garden, whose “rural delights” will probably not go to supplement the nutritional needs of the disenfranchised but rather will go to make bloody marys and beer for architecture students. A Farm Grows in Queens
Are we as technologists [doers] disenfranchised from the people who make decisions? Notes from 'MCG Futures' at MCG's Spring Conference
Europe's voters have been effectively disenfranchised by a cunning bureaucracy that finds ways to avoid consulting them. Times, Sunday Times
But when fathers are disenfranchised by misguided government programs, here's the result.
By and large, they are disenfranchised with the current government, have lost faith in having faith, and look to be about to vote a serious question mark into power.
(whom we will therefore call enfranchised burghers) are in like manner of two kinds. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
This is the second year we have been disenfranchised by this inept system and incompetence behind its planning.
The working people are politically disenfranchised.
The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, the differential rates of risk factors predict a future increase in morbidity and mortality among underserved and disenfranchised groups.
Some disenfranchised minority voters also complain of police harassment.
And it was Disraeli who grasped that 'jingoism' - a potent cocktail of popular patriotism and imperial expansionism - could win new voters among newly enfranchised groups such as artisans, skilled workers and shopkeepers: the Essex Men of the Victorian era. Home | Mail Online
The existing law stated that only those who had been granted citizenship would be enfranchised.
The result: stratospheric property prices that enriched some but left many feeling disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
In the process, diplomats worry, the actions of the United States could even nudge the Arab Spring toward radicalism by angering newly enfranchised citizens of democratic nations.

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