Disenfranchised


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Referring to any person or cultural group with no political, social, or economic power
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Students, older people living in care homes and people living in hostels have all been disenfranchised by these changes and throwing money at the problem now won't change things before the General Election.
LAW CHANGE PLEA T TO HELP CI CITY TY VO VO TERS; New rules have left 20,000 residents without a vote
The difference, according to Bernard Fraga of Harvard University, is explained entirely by the huge number of black men who are disenfranchised.
The ex-con factor: felony-disenfranchisement laws suppress black turnout enough to swing elections, and the future of reform is murky
Humphrey (2009) described three reasons for disenfranchised grief.
Pet loss and disenfranchised grief: implications for mental health counseling practice
When I first got disenfranchised with skating, it was not because of the big money.
Pilot Scott Tracy
and) you will make your managers feel disenfranchised, alienated and impotent.
Perils and pitfalls: stay prepared after a promotion
himself believes there was a major population shift from the lowlands to the central hill country by people who sought "a new society and a new lifestyle" or who exercised a protest against a corrupt landed aristocracy that disenfranchised the peasant class.
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?
b) As a result of a service-learning lab with a disenfranchised group, did participating university students reflect on social injustice?
Closing the digital divide with service-learning
In 2000 Gore and the Democrats ran to the right and thought no one would care about the millions disenfranchised by their intolerant Drug War policy.
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties
Ethics are made inextricable from seeing and passive spectatorship is finally all but disenfranchised, and for all the talk that seems precisely the point.
Chris Burden: Zwirner & Wirth
This gives him a secure base of operations to carry out his role "as the leader of disenfranchised Arabs and other Muslims who seek the liberation of Palestine and the downfall of the authoritarian regimes of the Middle East and absolute monarchies and emirates of the Gulf.
Osama bin Lenin
He finds evidence that the music's founders and early torchbearers, artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and KRS-One, are, in his view, creating institutions that will ensure hip-hop's ability to galvanize the disenfranchised and spur social and political activism for years to come.
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
It features streetwise, take-charge kids and is written for those sometimes disenfranchised, always aching-for-adventure kids scattered about Suburbia like so much collateral damage of the modern age.
Newspaper Caper

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