Sentence examples for meaningful voice from inspiring English sources

Slam's patients now have a meaningful voice that influences the way the trust operates.

Yet Washingtonians still have no meaningful voice in Congress and lack full authority over their own affairs.

This nation's founders rebelled against taxation without representation, but residents of Washington are still without a meaningful voice in Congress.

"We think the real issue is providing shareholders a meaningful voice in selecting and removing directors," he said.

Paumgarten describes the Indignados, comparable to Occupy Wall Street, trying to encircle the Parliament building, but he does not provide them with a meaningful voice.

"Board unresponsiveness, sometimes tied to corporate governance weaknesses, demonstrates the need for shareholders to have a more meaningful voice in the proxy process," he said at the time.

In a town where a mayor has a bright, hot spotlight, it's important that there be other meaningful voices.

Mr. Maliki, whose consolidation of power over the security forces and the judiciary has alarmed Western officials, presides over an unwieldy power-sharing government devised to give meaningful voices to Iraq's minority Kurds and Sunni Muslims.

In a sign of how difficult Mr. Bush's vision of a mature Palestinian democracy may be to achieve, Mr. Khader said that he did not plan to run for re-election himself, having given up on the possibility that the Legislature could be a meaningful, independent voice.

Last April, as part of Democracy Spring the two of us marched from Philly to D.C. with four game-changing demands for Congress: Get big money out of politics, ensure voting rights, improve voter registration, and reverse Supreme Court rulings that allow private wealth to defeat citizens' right to a meaningful political voice.

But extremely rewarding on the level of sitting with a kindred spirit who gives voice to your own longings to play a meaningful part in a meaningful whole.