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. From Wordnik.com. [The Plight of CEOs] Reference
These women have battled the demons of disempowerment and won. From Wordnik.com. [Natasha Dern: Feminine Power: Mystical Radiance Is What You Want] Reference
Stigmatization, prejudice and disempowerment thrive on ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Strub: Swiss Say Condoms Not Necessary...Sometimes] Reference
Empowerment is necessary because there was disempowerment in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Black economic empowerment and the vision of the Freedom Charter] Reference
She finds a web of political intrigue, greed, apathy and disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgment: Books] Reference
South Africans caught in a poverty trap of dependence and disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI AT THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE PERKINS BRAILLER PROJECT] Reference
It is perhaps important to reflect back and illustrate how this disempowerment came about. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY MR MZONDEKI ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEBATE OF THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS] Reference
"This results in massive disempowerment, poverty and destruction of the environment," Weaver said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
One was that indeed there was a feeling of marginalisation and disempowerment among many Afrikaners. From Wordnik.com. [REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA ON THE QUESTION OF THE AFRIKANERS] Reference
It promotes disappointment, disempowerment and despair, which is just what our adversaries on the right seek. From Wordnik.com. [The 'principled left' Obama needs] Reference
It was to all our people whose lives were defined by poverty, marginalisation, exploitation and disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Overcoming racialised settlement patterns and the associated socio-economic disempowerment must also be a priority. From Wordnik.com. [ANC CHALLENGES HERANDIEN TO PRODUCE �LAND AUDIT� FOR LOW COST HOUSING] Reference
These measures severely exacerbated the impoverishment, disempowerment and landlessness of black rural South Africans. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This is a vicious cycle - of poverty, ill health and disempowerment - and it is a silent cycle, making it easy to ignore. From Wordnik.com. [Jan Eliasson: The Neglected Development Goal] Reference
By taking that position we would be saying that we must make foreign to Africa the disempowerment of the masses of our people. From Wordnik.com. [Statement by Deputy President Mbeki at the African Renaissance Conference] Reference
Binswanger and Deininger also explain the disempowerment of the rural masses, making it difficult for them to challenge the new masters. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the opening of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization] Reference
There is much that has taken place over the first 14 years of democracy to encourage us that the process of disempowerment is being corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Leadership Magazine's 'Tomorrow's Leaders' Convention] Reference
This requires us, first and foremost, to understand the historical origins of economic dispossession and disempowerment of the indigenous people. From Wordnik.com. [Black economic empowerment and the vision of the Freedom Charter] Reference
Our goal is to help people emerge from denial and face reality but not get stuck in despair or disempowerment as they move forward into constructive action. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Buzzell: The Waking Up Syndrome] Reference
It therefore follows that by establishing a democratic, non-racial and non-sexist state we seek, among other things, to end this situation of disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget Vote of the Presidency] Reference
The economic policies resulting from this divide and disempowerment of working people without a doubt creates more suffering and kills more people than guns. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Webb Cuts Ad For Obama, Strongly Defends Him On Guns, American "Greatness"] Reference
It should also facilitate greater equalisation of income, wealth and earning opportunities and address legacy of apartheid-based disempowerment of black business. From Wordnik.com. [DEBATE ON BUDGET VOTE: TRADE AND INDUSTRY BY: HON N KHUNOU] Reference
As we are all aware, this underdevelopment and disempowerment is juxtaposed, globally, with areas of high development, great wealth and concentrated global power. From Wordnik.com. [Speech at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland] Reference
The effect of such weakening would be to enhance the strength and impact of other centres of power in our society, with the resultant disempowerment of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Tasks of the NDR and the Mobilisation of the Motive Forces] Reference
This transforms the objective disempowerment of the African people into a subjective acceptance by these people of the view that they are incapable of empowerment. From Wordnik.com. [A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World] Reference
Neither the internal North-South division nor the racial imbalances can be solved, if the disempowerment of and discrimination against women are not brought to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget of the Presidency] Reference
And yet, by definition, the disempowered should not reasonably expect that their disempowerment gives them any possibility to have a decisive influence over the powerful. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
People in London, Sydney, Berlin, Zurich, Moscow and other major centres around the world protested against the capitalist forces they blame for their own disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET SPEECH BY EBRAHIM EBRAHIM, CHAIR OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE] Reference
We have responded to this by pointing out that in reality this amounted to a call to protect the power of the powerful and to perpetuate the disempowerment of the powerless. From Wordnik.com. [Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget Vote of the Presidency] Reference
Clearly, the government has a responsibility to ensure that all our people, regardless of their colour or race, do not fall victim to marginalisation, fear and disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the Opening of the Centenary Conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies] Reference
To ensure their gender emancipation means that our society as a whole must work to free them from poverty and underdevelopment, from ignorance, marginalisation and disempowerment. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Simply put, this means that the logic of the use of power is the reinforcement of the might of the powerful, and therefore the perpetuation of the disempowerment of the powerless. From Wordnik.com. [Speech to the high-level plenary meeting of The General Assembly of the UN] Reference
The comprehensive, all-round disempowerment of the black majority was a strategic objective and a distinguishing feature of the system of colonialism and apartheid in our country. From Wordnik.com. [Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget Vote of the Presidency] Reference
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