Enfranchise

Along with helping "enfranchise" Florida and Michigan Democratic voters (I voted in the Florida primary so I don't feel I was disenfranchised), I hope Senator Clinton will also repudiate racism in the President primary, as well as sexism. wsu for obama ❋ Unknown (2008)

Depends on whether she manages to talk the Democratic Party into changing the rules -- retroactively -- to "enfranchise" Florida and Michigan by recertifying their delegates. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Vertical and Diamond cut a special deal to specifically target and "enfranchise" direct market comic book shops, by offering them a limited edition of Vertical's most important release of 2008. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most critically, I felt that we were losing out on a huge opportunity to enfranchise women by using the Internet to tap their brainpower. ❋ Leila Chirayath Janah (2011)

"The Minnesota tradition in law [is] to enfranchise people, and their decision disenfranchises many Minnesotans whose votes have been wrongly rejected," said Coleman legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A weaker economy of course means we need more government control There are more power grabs coming, but first he needs to enfranchise a whole new group of voters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This reaction was born, ironically, from the very reforms which were to enfranchise men. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Second, it would be tragic if Dr. King's second most famous speech in Washington, when he said at the Washington Monument in 1957 "give us the ballot, give us the ballot," did in fact enfranchise millions of Americans though the Voting Rights Act,,,only to posthumously fail when his spiritual descendants didn't try to stop corporate money from erasing those ballots. ❋ Mark Green (2011)

Government plans to enfranchise prisoners serving sentences of up to four years are a welcome step towards complying with the 2004 European court judgment that declared the UK's blanket ban unlawful An affront to democracy, 10 January. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the modern world, participatory justice demands that the political system enfranchise the entire population and that there be a system of checks and balances to prevent corruption and the concentration of power in the hands of the wealthy and the few. ❋ Rabbi Lawrence Troster (2011)

You just advocated additional votes for college graduates (not to say that there's anything wrong with that), and now you want to enfranchise a lower-IQ population dominated by high-school drop-outs? ❋ Unknown (2009)

A crossroads moments is looming for this parliamentary republic: it must enfranchise the nearly four million Palestinians who reside in the occupied territories, or admit to false advertising. ❋ Ariel Gonzalez (2011)

Hoping to capitalize on his newfound popularity as the country's foremost dispenser of righteous death, the president will propose a pathway to citizenship that could enfranchise millions of immigrants currently residing in the U.S. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

Daron and James argue that the elites enfranchise the poor to ward off revolution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The dinner was acelebration of the thirty-sixth anniversary of the day the white supremacist government of Rhodesia announced a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, which was pressingit to enfranchise black people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Visitors to the blog of Ian Bone, the founder of Class War, discuss this: Surely the definition of an 'anarchist' in Belgravia is a leaseholder with less than 70 years left to run on his lease who can't afford to enfranchise; or perhaps a leaseholder who has to actually live in his flat rather than renting it out and living in Venice. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Porter -- who Time described as a pert, brown-eyed, dark haired, nail-biting, chain-smoking, go-getter -- helped enfranchise American women to the investment world, teaching them core concepts and strategies so they need not ask for a man's help to take the reins of what Porter termed "pocketbook issues." ❋ Pamela Yellen (2011)