Sentence examples for remained disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

The white parliamentary chamber could override the Coloured and Indian chambers on matters of national significance, and all blacks remained disenfranchised.

Mosul, Tikrit, Fallujah and Ramadi - all majority Sunni cities - have remained disenfranchised ever since the US-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein and his Sunni power base.

That could intensify sentiment among Sunnis that despite voting in force, they remain disenfranchised in Iraq's new democracy.

Nearly 4 million of these people are not in prison, yet they remain disenfranchised for years, often for decades and sometimes for life.

Mr Chester and his fellow lags will remain disenfranchised.Britain is unusual in Europe for applying a near-blanket ban on prisoners voting.

"There are more than enough to change the bottom line," he said, and as long as those ballots are uncounted, the voters who cast them remain disenfranchised.

But a majority of Cablevision's consumers, primarily on Long Island and in Westchester and Connecticut, who get MSG in a premium package or as an à la carte service, would remain disenfranchised.

Right-to-work laws are not so good at expanding freedom, but they are good at ensuring American workers remain disenfranchised in the one arena in which their rights are most restricted, eight or more hours a day, five or more days a week.

And millions of Ahmadi Muslims remain disenfranchised with no representation in government.

The extent to which the internet has made porn very easily accessible, more than ever people are able to pornographically consume trans women's bodies yet we remain disenfranchised socio-politically.

The country's Sunnis, meanwhile, say they have remained severely disenfranchised at the hands of the Shia majority, which will not meaningfully share power with them.