Sentence examples for prominent disabled from inspiring English sources

It then turned its attention to the world's most prominent disabled runner.

Among the major commercial producers we contacted, the Disney Channel, Zodiak Kids and Nickelodeon do not have a single current children's show with a prominent disabled character.

Three stops go past and the man doesn't move, and he seems oblivious to the hard stares of several other passengers, who let their eyes rest on him, and try to draw his gaze to the prominent disabled passengers sign to his right.

The decision to turn one of the most renowned female superheroes into a paraplegic was regarded at the time by some comic fans as misogynistic, although many came to appreciate one of the few prominent disabled characters in popular culture, and will now regret her disappearance.

As with women of colour, historians have so far found a couple of examples of prominent disabled suffragettes and suffragists.

When the 13 episodes of season one of Daredevil went live on Netflix on April 10, Daredevil/Matthew Murdock, played by Charlie Cox, instantly became the most prominent disabled character in media.

We do not discuss an important, but quantitatively less prominent variant for disabled people.

The loss of financial resources was particularly prominent: As a disabled senior living in poverty, the insecurity of my housing is a great stress that becomes a crisis once a year.

They have placed a prominent player on the disabled list in each of the last three days, ending a difficult month with a thud.

Prominent bumper bars can push disabled vehicles and spin out fleeing suspects using the P.I.T. (pursuit immobilization technique) maneuver familiar to late-night viewers of police reality shows.

The dearth of disabled actors in prominent roles is rendered all the more troubling in "Stronger" by the fact that the movie's most powerful moments involve not the psychology of disability but its physical aspects, something that a disabled actor would be better equipped to convey.