Sentence examples for complete disenfranchisement from inspiring English sources

With unemployment rocketing from 1.5 million in May 1979 to nearly 3 million by the end of 1980, these communities further felt a complete disenfranchisement from any likelihood of work.

But given how tight both of Georgia's races are, concerns over disenfranchisement are pronounced.

Many believe that even though the fighting has ended, the disenfranchisement of Tamils from the political process continues.

In 1937, riots over poverty and disenfranchisement occurred, and people like Clement Payne had risen to fame advocating reform.

In a way, "How to Dance in Ohio" (which will be shown on HBO in the fall, courtesy of the executive producer Sheila Nevins's outstanding documentary division) completes Shiva's trilogy about disenfranchisement and its effects on youth who live for the normalizing effect of love.

Nationally, about 4.2 million Americans -- some still behind bars, others freed long ago -- cannot vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws, according to another study completed last month by two professors of criminology, Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota and Jeff Manza of Northwestern University.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who has been fighting to restore voting fight to felons who have completed their prison sentence in his state, has called felon disenfranchisement a vestige from Jim Crow laws.

Virginia has one of the country's strictest legal regimes limiting civil rights restoration for ex-felons who have completed their sentences and, not surprisingly, the country's fourth highest rate of felon disenfranchisement.

Total disenfranchisement".

"That's subtle disenfranchisement".

"We have significant disenfranchisement".