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- noun countable The act of
disempowering - noun uncountable The condition of being disempowered;
powerlessness
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Examples
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This resulted in disempowerment, lack of focus, a lot of self-doubt, and fear of sharing any "un-massaged" news at the risk of being another casualty of new-CEO-itis.
The Plight of CEOs 2008
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This resulted in disempowerment, lack of focus, a lot of self-doubt, and fear of sharing any "un-massaged" news at the risk of being another casualty of new-CEO-itis.
The Plight of CEOs 2008
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Citing the case of a school where one in six pupils was black, and there were no blacks on the governing body, he said legislators had to take note of the "disempowerment" of people who had no voice in their schools.
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It did because it drew the connection between the whole range of concerns and frustrations about downsizing and disempowerment which is a big theme of this book, and the way that economic forces, as well as cultural forces, contribute to the erosion of community and citizenship.
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy 1996
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We have no language, no conceptual structure, no word to claim, much less attempt to heal the experience of core female disempowerment.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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We have no language, no conceptual structure, no word to claim, much less attempt to heal the experience of core female disempowerment.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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Worse, since drill-n-kill programs make an end-run around reputedly incompetent teachers, it is children in public schools -- rather than private, elitist charter schools -- that end up suffering computer disempowerment.
Miguel Guhlin: Nurture Human Talents Miguel Guhlin 2010
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He is one of more than a thousand children in the community growing up beneath a shroud of disempowerment, hunger and violence.
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Can it be a coincidence that we have language for the primary disempowerment for men, but not for women?
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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Can it be a coincidence that we have language for the primary disempowerment for men, but not for women?
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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