Sentence examples for enfranchised from inspiring English sources

Finally, Myners says it's about time the Co-op enfranchised its ordinary members and introduced the principle of one member, one vote.

Yet none of this reduces the esteem in which he is held by most Turks—especially women, whom he enfranchised.

They were enfranchised in 1962, by amendment of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, although at that time their enrolment was voluntary rather than compulsory, as with all other voters.PETER COATMANMelbourneSIR The first political jurisdiction to give women the vote was the Territory of Wyoming (which now styles itself the "Equal Rights State"), in 1869.

Others, while railing in public against what they view as an attempt to undermine Kuwait's traditional Islamic culture with western values, privately suggest that the newly enfranchised women may swell Islamist ranks.

Neither Anthony Smurfit nor his younger brother Michael "is enfranchised", says the chairman, "but nor are they disenfranchised".

That could set a precedent especially if the newly enfranchised vote to stay in the union, as Westminster hopes.Most of the coalition's reforms flopped because there was little electoral incentive for politicians to support them.

Let's empower and enfranchise our young people".

Better still, it enfranchises people who might not otherwise have a chance to participate.

More quietly, they worry about enfranchising a lot of people who would probably vote against them.

Government efforts to enfranchise more Palestinians had been obstructed with protests.

In Brussels, Flemings accuse French-speaking bureaucrats of enfranchising francophone Moroccans so as to tilt the balance against Dutch.