Sentence examples for disenfranchised that from inspiring English sources

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.

Its productions take aim at injustice, especially in communities, often poor or otherwise disenfranchised, that are traditionally voiceless.

Connor has seen the toll on society, especially the disenfranchised, that has occurred since magic seed was destroyed in Buffy Season 8.

This may be because of their differing aims [ 65] - one is " an intellectual movement, led by prominent academic psychologists, that challenges the dominance of "negative psychology", whereas the other is " a grassroots movement of the disenfranchised that has placed itself apart from the human service professions, the academy, and the empirical research tradition" (p. 121).

Now a second ruling again disenfranchises that second popular vote.

"We don't use the term resident for voting, because resident has a separate legal meaning that would absolutely disenfranchise folks that do not have an indefinite intention to remain," Bissonnette said.

Republicans said the restrictions were meant to prevent nearly nonexistent voter fraud while Democrats said they were meant to disenfranchise groups that typically vote for them, like racial minorities and students.

ISIL's relatively strong foothold in Iraq has been aided by the US and its allies decision to support an Iraqi government that has disenfranchised the Sunni population of that country.

People often cast the boycott then as a matter of survival, refusal to participate in an order that disenfranchised them.

Fortunately, federal courts are seeing these efforts for what they are: a variation on the racist laws that disenfranchised millions before those tactics were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act.

At the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the former congressman Tom Tancredo voiced his regret that "we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country," which reminded some commentators of the schemes that disenfranchised black voters during Reconstruction.