| Then we can learn to exercise citizenship, break through the deference to authority which has silenced and disempowered us, and effect change. |
| It is highly gratifying that the majority of the poor and disempowered Indian people have asserted themselves in this dramatic fashion. |
| The traditional Malay rulers and the King were disempowered, when some scandals offered a political opportunity to do so. |
| She supposed he was disempowered by having been in prison and at the mercy of the middle class. |
| On the other side, hotels where the staff were disempowered, and couldn't bring me a newspaper without their boss' say-so were dreadful. |
| Diplomacy, which should be the art of avoiding conflict, was already disempowered. |
