And the electorate has been deprived of information, knowledge and opinion vital to its function.
Consumers are deprived of information they need to protect themselves from unsafe products.
Largely deprived of information about his absent father, the narrator can only invent fantasies.
The former group was deprived of information and the latter became stuck in an echo chamber.
When I say that, people sometimes respond, 'Well, then, children will be deprived of information they have to have.' But who says they have to have it?
Voters would be deprived of information they would have received from the parties and from the independent groups that want to have a say in the electoral decision.
The workings of the state are no longer monitored at first hand and the electorate is deprived of information it needs to exercise choice.
It is quite possible that the average Iraqi cleric, deprived of information under a totalitarian system, is not fully aware of the Iranian people's increasing distaste for Iran's experiment with "Islamic democracy".
The governor claimed that Americans had been particularly deprived of information on Obama's youth, while they knew a great deal about the formative years of the other chief executives all the way back to the way the youthful George Washington "chopped down a cherry tree".
His brain, deprived of information from his eyes for 18 years, didn't know what to make of the flood of visual stimuli.
