Sentence examples for was disenfranchised from inspiring English sources
verb
To deprive someone of a franchise, generally their right to vote
On Wednesday, its executive director, Michael Ryan, insisted that "no one was disenfranchised"—a claim I'd like to see him explain to my wife, a registered Brooklyn Democrat who has voted in the borough in every Presidential election since 1996, and many local elections, too, but who discovered on Tuesday that she had been eliminated from the electoral rolls because she was "inactive".
Mary and William were strong advocates of Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright in the controversy, and as a result Mary's husband was disenfranchised and disarmed for supporting these "heretics" and also for harboring his own heretical views.
The Heritage Foundation seems to be concerned that legal voters are being disenfranchised, but the only thing disenfranchising them is their own choice.
It's not only the working class that's disenfranchised but the owning class as well — disenfranchised from their intellectual and artistic aspirations.
"We will not be disenfranchised," Salih said.
That voter is disenfranchised by error.
Voters of the centre are being disenfranchised, he sorrows.
"So basically, the folks in Park Slope were disenfranchised".
Whole groups of Palestinian migrants are disenfranchised altogether.
It might be people who were disenfranchised in school.
"They don't want to be disenfranchised," Mr. Edwards said.
