Sentence examples for disenfranchised a from inspiring English sources

"They have alienated and disenfranchised a lot of parties they have had to work with," said Elliot S. Berke, who defended Representative Sam Graves, Republican of Missouri, against conflict-of-interest accusations from the ethics office.

And the second was to send up a partial count which, according to the evidence before the board, would have cut off a substantial number, not only of precincts that might have been significantly different that the result, but also that would have disenfranchised a particular minority within Dade County.

"By endorsing only proposals that provide for civic nomination of chief executive candidates, a relatively small and unrepresentative group of political activists has effectively disenfranchised a large section of the community who do not want to be led down a path towards direct confrontation with the central government," it said.

Yet Clinton is worried about Republican disenfranchise measures, but won't talk about the millions disenfranchised a policy she supports--drug prohibition!

For all their wisdom and virtue, the Founding Fathers disenfranchised a large segment of our country when they drafted the Constitution.

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".

By ending the exams — which they, of course, could not have passed — the Mongols effectively disenfranchised an entire intellectual class.

"I'm sure that Apple has some business rationale for doing this, but they have just disenfranchised an entire ecosystem and none of us can really understand why," Shapiro said.

"The appellate court created a tie by disenfranchising a voter".

"I believe the court would probably uphold the idea that you shouldn't disenfranchise a voter.

"You can only divide a community by disenfranchising a constituency," he said, "and a divided community is a weak community".