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- adjective Not
empowered .
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Examples
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When the word power is understood to mean "power over," all but the most powerful are left to find an unempowered place within the system.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Why Women Need to Be the Ones Occupying Wall Street Barbara 2011
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It's no wonder that in a country whose governing leaders are mostly men, whose major corporations are by and large led by men, that women are left feeling exhausted and unempowered.
Rosalyn Hoffman: We're All Barbie Now? Rosalyn Hoffman 2010
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Older males of a certain persuasion feeling emasculated or unempowered?
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*** Rick Santorum has a lot going for him, most especially a deep identification with and caring for the working class, for the displaced and unempowered people who once worked in steel mills and factories and have seen it all go away.
Romney Wins but Takes a Beating Peggy Noonan 2012
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Wanted to protect them from profits before life people like you that would see them unempowered and dead.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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Women, by tradition unempowered, in the setting of heroin and opium use reportedly are the last to use the shared needle, and thereby the most vulnerable to HIV transmission.
Roberta Sklar: Observations of an AIDS Conference Virgin Roberta Sklar 2010
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Women, by tradition unempowered, in the setting of heroin and opium use reportedly are the last to use the shared needle, and thereby the most vulnerable to HIV transmission.
Roberta Sklar: Observations of an AIDS Conference Virgin Roberta Sklar 2010
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Women, by tradition unempowered, in the setting of heroin and opium use reportedly are the last to use the shared needle, and thereby the most vulnerable to HIV transmission.
Roberta Sklar: Observations of an AIDS Conference Virgin Roberta Sklar 2010
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They are the rich leading the old and unempowered.
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Today, international bankers are looting world economies with the aim of turning them into Guatemala - subjugated, unempowered, enslaved, and impoverished like in Orwell's classic dystopian novel - "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
"Over the Rainbow" 2009
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