Sentence examples for were disempowering from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove confidence from (someone) to do something.
(42 year old female, BMI 56.4) Some felt that public health messages were disempowering for individuals because they only provided a small part of the overall message.
Some stated that diets - particularly those which provided pre-prepared meals - were disempowering because they did not create long term behaviour change: "That's not empowering to take hold of your own life, that's giving you a whole heap of frozen crap that I wouldn't eat".
How strange if Congress were disempowered in this critical arena.
Hypothetically, overturning Citizens United could happen but what needs to happen is re-empowering those who were disempowered.
Women who were disempowered from choosing their place of delivery were twice as likely to have home deliveries compared with those who had full autonomy.
In addition, some of the women also felt that they did not have an opportunity to voice their concerns and were disempowered from making informed decisions about consenting for HIV testing during antenatal services.
In particular, patients were disempowered by the paternalistic situation in which they neither knew what would happen after a first course of treatments, nor contributed to the decision to stop treatment.
The sensation is disempowering.
"To wait for international leaders is disempowering.
It was disempowering because of its administrative form.
