| The traditional Malay rulers and the King were disempowered, when some scandals offered a political opportunity to do so. |
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| On the other side, hotels where the staff were disempowered, and couldn't bring me a newspaper without their boss' say-so were dreadful. |
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| It is highly gratifying that the majority of the poor and disempowered Indian people have asserted themselves in this dramatic fashion. |
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| She supposed he was disempowered by having been in prison and at the mercy of the middle class. |
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| Environmentalists are failing to attract the disenfranchised, the disempowered, the dispossessed and the disengaged. |
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| Then we can learn to exercise citizenship, break through the deference to authority which has silenced and disempowered us, and effect change. |
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| Diplomacy, which should be the art of avoiding conflict, was already disempowered. |
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| African states, carrying unsustainable debt burdens, have been disempowered as fiscal managers and providers of essential social services. |
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| This would further disenfranchise millions already disempowered by conflict. |
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| It was rough feeling responsible but somehow disempowered from doing anything about it. |
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| This month Mr Chávez crudely disempowered the newly elected opposition mayor of Caracas, the capital. |
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| It describes giving a voice to communities, particularly those who are disempowered and vulnerable. |
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| Refugee and internally displaced communities may contain a high concentration of victims as well as other socially disempowered communities. |
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| Millions of girls and women continue to live in poverty, disempowered and discriminated against. |
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| Women who do attain positions of responsibility are often disempowered by male actors, often influencing them to leave the forest sector. |
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| On the global stage disabled people are the least recognised and most disempowered of all people. |
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| If knowledge is restricted in a knowledge-dependent world, people are disempowered in an entirely new way. |
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| Those who are disempowered or discriminated against, look to their religion as the force of mobilization of their dissent and protest. |
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| Without developing the discipline and self-awareness to judge themselves, dancers can remain permanently disempowered and under the control of others. |
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| The local reaction has disempowered many young people and denied them access to self-support and to the support of others who share their concerns. |
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| When you continue to hear stories about how disempowered ordinary women are, particularly in our villages, you have to ask whether anything is changing. |
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| Often disempowered with respect to governments and the companies, the concerns of communities affected by private investments are commonly ignored. |
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| Regardless of the methodological approach, researchers who question social structures, or deal with the disempowered, may face pressures from authority figures. |
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| As a consequence, however, many victims feel disempowered by a legal process that deprives them of any say in the ultimate disposition of charges and which often operates against their wishes to withdraw from the system. |
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| At the bottom of the picture, disempowered demons try to hide, and three angelic-human pairs embrace with foliage in their hands and hair. |
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| And little will likely be done to solve the Kindle conundrum because the people affected are disempowered when it comes to making the rules, while the rulemakers have little incentive to make them less annoying. |
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| Without this access to justice, these disempowered groups and individuals no longer have a voice in their efforts to seek equality and recognition. |
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| As we have seen above, this group's concerns overlap those of social citizenship in that their attention most often goes to those parts of the population disempowered by exclusion. |
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| An overwhelming majority of young people, moreover, strongly support these principles, and they would be deeply disempowered by a legislator who seeks to protect them in an inadequate manner. |
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| Girls are disempowered when they cannot go to school because of the threat of violence, when they are abducted or trafficked, or when their families disintegrate or must flee. |
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| In other instances, electoral conflicts and political violence arise, in part, from reactions of groups that have been deliberately disadvantaged and disempowered by their opponents. |
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| There are those who will try to protect the status quo, to impede change, and there will be others who seek to bring about change for the benefit of the disempowered. |
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| However, where there are few services, organizations can also provide support to other marginalized and disempowered communities in a country or city. |
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| These innovations in community accountability will need to be supplemented by stronger legal protections against systemic prejudices and unjust practices that have disempowered diverse populations. |
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| In the struggles among elites for power and economic benefits, the permanent discontentment among the excluded and disempowered parts of society provides a critical resource to destabilize and overthrow central government. |
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| This is in direct contrast to the present day, where Aboriginal women find themselves disempowered, oppressed and facing the threat and risk of violence in their homes and in their communities. |
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| Furthermore, NGOs could recommend innovative and creative practices for promoting the education, empowerment, gender equality, and human and labour rights of those who are currently disempowered. |
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| Jesus has instructed us not to pursue our own interests at the expense of others, not to be envious when the disempowered are re-empowered, not to obstruct justice when those who have been deprived are restored. |
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| This time, the most unruly tribe of them all, the Nordalbingians, found themselves effectively disempowered to rebel. |
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| Since then every right-minded Belgian knows what Kafka stands for: gone are the days of citizens and businesses being disempowered in the face of an unapproachable government. |
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| People already marginalized are more difficult to reach with HIV prevention messages and may be disempowered from taking steps, individually or communally, to protect themselves and others. |
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| The beggar had all the characteristics of disempowered poor people: they are without material things, self-effacing, dejected, humiliated, and have very low self-esteem. |
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| I first saw him at a panel-based event for young unionists in Congress House, where he was talking about his political awakening, from disempowered call-centre worker to union rep. |
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| They are so concerned with rearranging power relationships, so as to disempower the empowered and elevate the disempowered, that they are prepared in the service of that end to sacrifice liberty. |
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| The Sunnis in Syria have also been disempowered by a minority Alevite regime in the last few decades. |
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| It will provide a safe, social space for people to interact with others who may at times feel alone and disempowered by the lack of accessible information. |
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| Be that as it may, even more troubling is that their insular worries come as the unemployed, the homeless because of bank foreclosures, and the disempowered are being ignored. |
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| Freedom of expression was both a right and responsibility and that this realization was crucial to counter stereotypes and to disempowered racist ideologies. |
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| Father Gianfranco Testa will share his rich experiences and insight from over 30 years of work with disempowered communities throughout Latin America. |
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| They have been disempowered by a society that believes they are intellectually inferior. |
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