| That's why confronting and disempowering him is both difficult and vitally necessary. |
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| We could just as easily call this bunch of sickos any number of disempowering labels. |
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| The objectification of the female form continues to be viewed by most feminists as necessarily disempowering. |
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| They have even gone as far as to suggest that state government is disempowering children by taking away their opportunity to buy junk food in school. |
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| I do not accept the assertion that we are disempowering parents. |
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| Rites of degradation involve dismissing or disempowering people. |
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| Others have worried that trigger-warning advocates, in seeking to protect the vulnerable, run the risk of disempowering them instead. |
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| Those who claim that we should adopt the common position without question are disempowering this Parliament. |
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| Forcing an MP who is at odds with his or her party to sit as an independent in fact contributes to disempowering that member. |
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| Compulsory, and, at times, routine testing is disempowering and frequently compromises human rights. |
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| The feeling of travelling without control over one's travel time is a disempowering experience, and bad experiences are remembered by travellers. |
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| The experience of violence may be very disempowering, and may undermine the self-confidence necessary to enforce one's rights. |
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| Is it disempowering them and making them more secretive about and less able to change unsafe behaviours? |
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| We have also noted that short government turnaround schedules can have the most disempowering of effects. |
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| Sharing information on threats, within a structured framework-when you are looking together at how to manage security-isn't disempowering. |
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| Many teachers, who see the resulting division of labour and loss of overall control as disempowering, oppose these practices. |
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| For some women microfinance has not only had no positive impact, but has been positively disempowering. |
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| An increase in FDIs alone does not reduce poverty nor break up the structures that are disempowering the population. |
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| At times, these initiatives can contribute to stigma: marginalizing single women, disempowering girls, and overlooking young children. |
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| I didn't find it the horrible, disempowering experience I was expecting, though. |
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| Taking your emotions out of the situation is a way of disempowering them, and they're likely to move on to an easier target. |
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| Against such promising perspectives we also need to be reminded that strong disempowering effects are a realistic possibility, where people lose the capacity to control decisions affecting their lives. |
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| The evident benefits of global trade so conceived were contrasted with state control systems that seemed to limit innovation through disempowering and disincentivising their citizens. |
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| The trouble with most jobs, according to Leonard Schlesinger, co-author of The Real Heroes of Business, is that they are disempowering. |
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| While not completely disempowering, this realization casts the role of the BCDRC in a starker light: though neither purposeless nor powerless, we are puny outsiders and limited in our sway over the behemoth. |
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| In March, 1971 the British High Court ruled in McCartney's favor in his case against Lennon, Harrison, and Starr, and the Beatles' business affairs were put in receivership, effectively disempowering Klein. |
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| Regulations introduced to govern new production systems were stringent, punitive, disempowering, and sources of disincentives to rural communities. |
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| We see the impact of the macro environment and new technology, which may be disenabling and disempowering to our client groups that range from the child to youth, to adulthood and then old age. |
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| While offering to broker among local languages, a foreign official language is creating dependency and weak links which are essentially disempowering. |
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| It has created unprecedented wealth and well-being, but predominantly for rich countries and wealthier segments of populations, while bypassing or even disempowering the poor, countries and individuals alike. |
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| We can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and also disempowering. |
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| But we as a society have become obsessed with forcing fathers to fulfil their duties, and we are ignoring, just like in 19th century debt law, how we are systematically demotivating and disempowering them. |
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| Thus prejudice is often more subtly disempowering and institutionalized. |
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| Both the bill and the claim represent resistance by an indigenous people to the divisionist and disempowering nature of legislative regulation of their cultural heritage. |
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