Sentence examples for disfranchised from inspiring English sources

As of 2004, more African American men were disfranchised (due to felon disfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the 15th amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.

Expatriate Zimbabweans on the state payroll were allowed to vote, but those who had emigrated to escape poverty or the attentions of Mr Mugabe's youth militia a number estimated at perhaps half the adult population were disfranchised.

Moreover, the joyous ones were President Khatami's children women and the young who had felt themselves disfranchised during most of the life of the Islamic republic, but who turned out to elect him president in May.

The militants claimed to be acting on behalf of neglected, disfranchised local communities, whose lands had been polluted by the oil companies and who received almost no money from the rich state governors.

The second act was the more important: among other things it enabled previously disfranchised blacks in 1973 to elect Mr Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, with the help of a fifth of the white voters, and thus to become the first black mayor of a major southern city.Mr Jackson served three terms, from 1974 to 1982 and from 1990 to 1994.

"l hang my head in shame when l say it," said one Coloured woman near Cape Town before the election, "but l could never vote for a black .The National Party, inventors of the system that uprooted Coloureds from their homes and arbitrarily disfranchised them, was set to win many of their votes.

In January's elections, the previously disfranchised Sunni Arabs won a lot more seats in the provincial councils of Nineveh (of which Mosul is the main city) and Diyala.

Mr Odinga said 2m opposition supporters had been disfranchised.

It is greatest and growing fastest among Tory and Labour voters, not just among the poor disfranchised Liberals who are a fickle job-lot of voters anyway, nor among the Scottish and Welsh nationalists who could yet benefit (temporarily) by the present system.

Its refusal would have left Sunnis feeling disfranchised and more sympathetic to the jihadists still afflicting the country, especially Baghdad.

Many Ivorians have since been branded "foreign" and disfranchised.