Sentence examples for they disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

By insisting on property-owning requirements for voting, they disenfranchised thousands of their neighbours.

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

Such claims, once made, had a "tendency to cascade," encompassing more and more groups, even as they engendered what she calls "evil twins": ideologies that dehumanized those they disenfranchised.

July 29 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday struck down a string of Wisconsin voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led legislature and ordered the state to revamp its voter identification rules, finding that they disenfranchised minority voters.

Over the past few decades, dozens of lawsuits have been filed to block redistricting plans on the ground that they disenfranchise one party's voters or the other's.

"And I started saying months ago that it bothers me that if you have a limited window of time, if they're out of town, if they're in the military, they're disenfranchised.

They are disenfranchised by the law.

Proponents said the monitors would help restore the confidence of voters who felt they were disenfranchised during recent elections.

From my conversations with him I got the impression that politics was very detached from the streets, the upcoming elections were of little interest to Ali or any of his family or friends; they were disenfranchised.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, they gradually disenfranchised Jews, expelling them from universities, schools and many professions, before eventually deporting and killing them in death camps across Europe.

If, near the end of next week, Mr. Gore was still not the winner, the Democrats will have to decide whether to go to court to challenge the ballot in Palm Beach County, which they said disenfranchised 20,000 voters in the Democratic enclave when their ballots were thrown out for voting for two presidential candidates.