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  • verb Present participle of disempower.

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Examples

  • It's also fundamentally backwards looking and maybe even a touch disempowering, which is ironic given the brilliantly capable, future-oriented builders of worlds who dot the speculative fiction landscape (authors and characters both).

    MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009

  • This narrative still clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect "with catastrophic implications" to whiteness.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Next week, we will discuss the second narrative: 'This shouldn't happen to a white' which as we said earlier, also clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect.

    ANC Today 2007

  • This narrative still clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect "with catastrophic implications" to whiteness.

    ANC Today 2007

  • This narrative still clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect "with catastrophic implications" to whiteness.

    ANC Today 2007

  • This narrative still clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect "with catastrophic implications" to whiteness.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Next week, we will discuss the second narrative: 'This shouldn't happen to a white' which as we said earlier, also clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect.

    ANC Today 2007

  • In his keynote speech, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called the limitations "disempowering" and warned that his office did not have the resources to track and prosecute spammers on its own.

    With This Law, You Can Spam 2004

  • "It's kind of disempowering for me for you not to see how very important it is for me," she says.

    Your Moral Leader 2009

  • It is profoundly frustrating, disempowering and, quite frankly, depressing to see so many one-time activists, caring friends and neighbors, concerned journalists, political and public policy leaders disappear like a puff of smoke once combination therapy brought a relative cure to those with the privilege of healthcare access.

    Sean Strub: 'It's Never Just HIV' Ad Campaign Oversimplifies the Issue Sean Strub 2011

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