Sentence examples for have disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

Missouri's voting-list problems received far less attention, but may have disenfranchised more eligible voters.

High taxes, expensive operating costs, rigid labor markets and heavy regulation have disenfranchised many companies, said Mr. Merszei of Dow.

Iowa and New Hampshire have disenfranchised the rest of the country, and I'm of two minds about it.

In Zimbabwe, independent domestic monitors said the polls were "seriously compromised" by registration problems that may have disenfranchised up to a million people.

But the litigation this situation may spawn can be readily dismissed unless the irregularities can be shown to have disenfranchised enough voters to overturn the election results.

They note that Mr. London has argued in the past for empowering artistic directors, so that they become influential patrons of new plays, yet now his study seems to be suggesting that artistic directors have disenfranchised playwrights.

Next up: peace in the Middle East.8 40 : The caucus system has disenfranchised me.

Before 1913, his claim to fame was helping to draft a state constitution that had disenfranchised African-Americans.

In a joint letter to the Olympic committee, they said, "The task force has disenfranchised the education-based community".

By that time, the Reconstruction era was over, and efforts by conservative Democrats had disenfranchised most African-Americans once again.

With population as a whole growing, it is plain that this process has disenfranchised hundreds of thousands.