Sentence examples for disenfranchised it from inspiring English sources

Especially among the poor and disenfranchised, it was religious groups and charities, many of them financed by conservative Gulf countries, that picked up the slack.

"Evidence shows younger people are overwhelmingly pro-European, and if they are disenfranchised it could cost us our place in Europe.

If you feel disenfranchised, it is unlikely you believe your concerns will be listened to, or that you have a clear idea what your rights are.

Justice Malala, a political analyst, wrote of the disenfranchised: "It might make many of us quiver with fear, but here is the cold, hard, truth: they will opt out of the current social, economic and political arrangements and they will choose anarchy".

The percentage of invalidated votes here was far higher than that recorded in Palm Beach County, which has become the focus of national attention and where Democrats have argued that so many people were disenfranchised it may be necessary to let them vote again.

Whilst FSWs worldwide have historically been marginalised and disenfranchised, it is arguable that the social fabric, infrastructural, economic and political context in many African settings is exceptionally disempowering [ 159].

As she did in the more lyrical and narratively restrained "Old Joy," Ms. Reichardt has set her sights on a man who's at once gravely conscious of his world and disenfranchised from it.

SAN KHAMPAENG, THAILAND — Once again the Shinawatra clan has pulled off an unlikely feat: One of the wealthiest families in Thailand has convinced the poor and politically disenfranchised that it understands their problems, feels their pain and will fight for their rights.

"It disenfranchises members because it is the leaders who appoint themselves," he said.

Bobbie was left feeling, as he put it, "disenfranchised from the family unit".

When network television shut the door to black and white movies, it disenfranchised the culture of a giant swath of history.