Sentence examples for Was disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

The last time voting turnout hit 80percentt was 1888: Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland ran for president (Harrison won); more than half the electorate (women, minorities) was disenfranchised; and Civil War pensions were one of the hot campaign issues.

He was disenfranchised and he got involved with you, so can you talk a little bit about that and about that strategy of bringing in people from the other side?

On Wednesday, its executive director, Michael Ryan, insisted that "no one was disenfranchised"—a claim I'd like to see him explain to my wife, a registered Brooklyn Democrat who has voted in the borough in every Presidential election since 1996, and many local elections, too, but who discovered on Tuesday that she had been eliminated from the electoral rolls because she was "inactive".

Mary and William were strong advocates of Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright in the controversy, and as a result Mary's husband was disenfranchised and disarmed for supporting these "heretics" and also for harboring his own heretical views.

The Heritage Foundation seems to be concerned that legal voters are being disenfranchised, but the only thing disenfranchising them is their own choice.

"We will not be disenfranchised," Salih said.

Rural citizens are disenfranchised through transitions.

That voter is disenfranchised by error.

Voters of the centre are being disenfranchised, he sorrows.

"So basically, the folks in Park Slope were disenfranchised".

Whole groups of Palestinian migrants are disenfranchised altogether.