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disfranchise

[dis-fran-chahyz] / dɪsˈfræn tʃaɪz /




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Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2016

Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?'

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whom he can and will support Senator Johnson did not say but few of his followers expected him to disfranchise himself election day.

From Time Magazine Archive

They wished to61 reform the representation in Parliament in such wise as to disfranchise the rotten boroughs and give representatives to great towns like Leeds and Manchester.

From The War of Independence by John Fiske

Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Soumahoro says with a smile that he will have the "best suntan" in parliament, but is adamant that he intends to speak for the poor and disfranchised, regardless of their colour.

From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2022

By 1846, residents of Alexandria had grown irritated over being disfranchised, and political control of that area returned to Virginia.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2019

This both encouraged a more egalitarian discourse and made it possible for the voices of the previously disfranchised to be heard.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2018

It has disfranchised three millions of electors, two-thirds of whom are peaceable inhabitants of the country.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

But it is difficult to fathom the logic of disfranchising citizens because they were poorly served by politically controlled schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2016

It’s reasonable to conclude, then, that the Harsanyi plan would have the intended effect of disfranchising a substantial minority of eligible citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2016

Then the question arose whether or not disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was a rewording which struck out "color" and added "male."

From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

While the Gallic cock is crowing on one side of the Channel, and the British bull-dog barking on the other, your Assembly may pass the disfranchising act without fear of being disturbed by the blouses.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

But there was the clause of Mr. Turnbull to be dealt with,—a clause directly disfranchising seven single-winged boroughs, of which Loughton was of course one,—a clause to which the Government must either submit or object.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope


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