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- verb Present participle of
disempower .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"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
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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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