Sentence examples for effectively disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

Some 70,000 Tatars who returned to their ancestral homeland after November 1991 were not yet eligible for Ukrainian citizenship and were effectively disenfranchised until 1996.

There must be millions of us, up and down the land, who have spent a whole lifetime being effectively disenfranchised by it.

The state's own statistics, he said, showed that "there are 81,938 minority citizens who are already registered to vote and who lack DMV-issued identification," and who thus risk being "effectively disenfranchised" by the new law.

As a public sector worker and a traditional Labour supporter, I've been effectively disenfranchised ever since New Labour took the reins of power and ditched the old Clause Four in favour of some fluffy-bunny type platitudes about justice and openness and everyone being nice to each other.

New voter ID laws have effectively disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of people across the country.

This past weekend, civil rights advocates gathered in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 51st anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attack on civil rights activists who had taken to the city's Edmund-Pettus Bridge to protest myriad rules that had effectively disenfranchised black voters across the South.

The state is home to the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group who have been left effectively stateless, and disenfranchised by the Burmese government.

African American men have higher rates of felony convictions and therefore fall into the felony trap – in Florida about one in five black men have been disenfranchised effectively for life.

I dream of expanding PPM into an organization that can effectively advocate for disenfranchised young people in the family and criminal court system.

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The end of Reconstruction saw the rise of the secret ballot, which, by effectively introducing a literacy requirement, disenfranchised black men.