Sentence examples for were disenfranchised for from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of thousands of voters were disenfranchised for lack of new biometric identification cards.

A 2002 study estimated that about 4.7 million American felons in total were disenfranchised for the 2000 election, while a 2004 estimate pegged the number at about 5.3 million American felons for the 2004 election.

In a special election for mayor on Nov. 8, 1932, you could have been disenfranchised for being too short.

The final screen indicated that the only citizens who remain categorically excluded today are those convicted of serious crimes, who in some states are disenfranchised for life.

The court, in a unanimous decision, said that voters should not be disenfranchised "for a mistake of election officials in performing the duty cast upon them".

"People in South Jersey were disenfranchised and ignored for far too long," said Mr. Norcross, who grew up in Pennsauken.

"So basically, the folks in Park Slope were disenfranchised".

He's disenfranchised them for a very long time".

African American men have higher rates of felony convictions and therefore fall into the felony trap – in Florida about one in five black men have been disenfranchised effectively for life.

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 highly sectarian and religious cast of that alliance has raised tensions here and fear in the United States that Sunnis could be disenfranchised and support for a democratic government eroded.