Dictionary Home » Sentence Examples » disenfranchise

disenfranchise - use in sentences

Object

  • majority: Positive discrimination schemes are racist schemes to disenfranchise the majority indigenous white community in favor of minorities.
  • community: The imperatives of Middle England serve to disenfranchise communities like these.
  • group: We need to work harder at improving the understanding of the needs of disenfranchised groups.
  • people: Advocacy Offering representation often to the most disenfranchised people in society.

Preposition: by

  • system: Are they disenfranchised by the system, by the teachers, by their classmates or by everything?

Adjective complement

  • due: Thirteen percent of all black men in the US - 1.4 million - are disenfranchised due to previous convictions.

Modifying Another Word

  • politically: The vast majority in Britain are disenfranchised politically by an undemocratic political set-up.
  • effectively: What do you think people can do if they are effectively disenfranchised?
  • increasingly: I believe that many voters are feeling increasingly disenfranchised.
  • not: Residents will continue to be included on the electoral roll ensuring they are not disenfranchised from voting in any election or referendum in 2006.
  • previously: Previously disenfranchised sections of the community came out to vote en masse.

Preposition: from

  • society: Learning fractions is irrelevant to someone who is disenfranchised from mainstream society.
  • process: Europeans, confronted by a powerful and somewhat remote bureaucracy in Brussels increasingly feel disenfranchised from the political process.
  • education: The provision attracts many learners who have been disenfranchised from education and are either unwilling or unable to attend ' conventional ' classes.

The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.