Sentence examples for widely disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — Senator Barack Obama said the leader of the civil rights division of the Justice Department should step down after suggesting that minority voters were not widely disenfranchised by laws requiring photo identification because many members of minorities died before reaching old age.

People don't identify as poor, though, and it's hard to mobilise around a group who were historically disenfranchised and still are widely considered unable to participate in economic or political affairs.

The prime minister's decision was widely viewed as an effort to reach out to the disenfranchised Sunni minority.

This coin has two sides, and while one side empowers the oppressed and disenfranchised, the other grants impunity for acts we imagine to be widely abhorred.

If they are part of an underrepresented and historically disenfranchised sector of an academic discipline – as women in philosophy are – the effects of these problems ramify more widely.

My generation feels disenfranchised".

You just hate the disenfranchised".

Women were completely disenfranchised".

And people feel disenfranchised.

"People just feel disenfranchised".

Yet Ms. Karman's selection was also widely seen in the Middle East as an endorsement of the revolts that broke out across the Arab world early this year, where popular uprisings have challenged entrenched leaders and empowered the disenfranchised.