Verb (used with object) : Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.    From Dictionary.com. 

Most grants are dedicated to programs that benefit the disadvantaged and '' disempowered '' members of the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [QCOnline Metro News] Reference

Right now, Democrats feel disempowered for good reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005] Reference

They were no longer required and they were disempowered.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2007] Reference

Just as managers have been disempowered, so have OGC staffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report Streamlining Management Control Part] Reference

Most of us have an odd or disempowered relationship to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Give Yourself More Time and Space] Reference

Rural communities which are underdeveloped and disempowered.    From Wordnik.com.  [READY TO GOVERN] Reference

HOWARD: Because he felt disempowered, because he felt powerless.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 3, 2005] Reference

MILCH: You know, that's a very disempowered medium for a writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2004] Reference

Because if you do that, you end up with a presidency that's disempowered.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009] Reference

JEALOUS: And how disempowered people feel going across town to go to the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009] Reference

They just leave me feeling enraged and disempowered -- how do we stop this swill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worst Yet? McCain Campaign Robocall Ties Obama To "Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers"] Reference

We sort of imagine him to be kind of meek and disempowered and he ` s wielding his power.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2008] Reference

My enemy's enemy is my friend and the priority is to see New Labour disempowered - at any cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

There was evidently a struggle for control of government between the empowered and disempowered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of cats, factions and a revolution] Reference

There is considerable variation among poor people and the extent to which they are disempowered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental change and socioeconomic factors in Africa] Reference

The arrogant smirks will be wiped off the misfits faces and they will be disempowered by the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Historically, disempowered minorities tend to patronize the biggest establishment figure to be their rainmaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Still Has Popular Vote Lead ��� But Just Barely] Reference

And, you know, I think that there are a lot of reasons in life that people come to disempowered interpretations.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Woman's Journey From Homeless To Harvard] Reference

He kept promising to empower Democrats who, believe me, feel very disempowered right now because they have no power.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004] Reference

She contends that the effort's nonpartisan, though she says, "In the last four years, people have become disempowered.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ACTIVISM: HARVARD HITS THE SWING STATES] Reference

It describes itself as "a volunteer non-corporate effort to provide news coverage and media resources to the disempowered".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Both the powerful and the disempowered will undoubtedly agree that terrorism and war represent a serious threat to all humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address at the 59TH session of the United Nations general assembly] Reference

One senses a message in all this: a message of hope for the disempowered, as well as a message of defiance against corporations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karin Badt: "In the Beginning" Premieres at Cannes: Solid Story with Emotional Punch] Reference

They do nothing but drive the dealers from street to street, from playground to park, from one poor, disempowered neighborhood to another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real War On Drugs] Reference

The democratic state must therefore function as a social institution that empowers the millions in our country who have been disempowered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget Vote of the Presidency] Reference

I wonder why she's still with him, if she's just dependent on him and disempowered, or if they've truly reconciled and she's forgiven him.    From Wordnik.com.  [PA-10: Sherwood's Wife Claims Carney Gets "Pleasure Out Of Hurting Our Family"] Reference

They are also able to engage with distant audiences, creating new constituencies of support despite this otherwise disempowered condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bharati Chaturvedi: Another Green (Justice) Revolution] Reference

They're politically and economically disempowered which produces enough alienation that you can find a couple dozen who you can radicalize.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008] Reference

This affects people who have felt inconsequential and disempowered in their lives and then discover or happen upon the "intoxication of power.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Goulston, M.D.: Reverend Terry Jones: A Case of 'Somebody' Envy] Reference

A filibuster proof majority in the Senate would be a much greater benefit to the leftists than a few centrists in a fairly disempowered cabinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I believe we should demonstrate our commitment to people who are poor, disenfranchised, disempowered before we talk about putting troops anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008] Reference

What happens when newly disempowered Republicans call Obama's bluff and start flooding these tools, and Obama is forced to ignore their suggestions.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Revolutionary is Obama's Anti-FISA Group?] Reference

Benda and others were given a platform by the rise of mass literacy in the 1880s; they were then disempowered by the rise of television in the 1970s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Judt on Harry Lyme and Other Intellectuals] Reference

Chris: "Instead of feeling disempowered by narratives I can't do much to change and messaging that doesn't speak for me, now I have my own anti-McCain ads.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Commence Shoe Leather Phase?] Reference

And how disempowered people feel going across town to go to the bank or how, you know, the fact that walking down their street, they're going to be roped in by some broker.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2009] Reference

Whether they were in the small state or in the large state and I think that people more -- that far more people would feel empowered than disempowered by having a popular vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2004] Reference