英:['vəʊtləs]
美:['voʊtləs]
英:['vəʊtləs]
美:['voʊtləs]
vote·less
vot lihs
"labor was voiceless"
"disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
The first known use of voteless was in 1672
1 This is no doubt partly explicable by the special circumstances of America, where the recent immigrants are apt to be voteless.
2 When the whole world was impressed by the idea that voteless women were an intolerable nuisance, then there would cease to be voteless women.
3 “These people have often been forgotten, many times voiceless and voteless,” he said.
4 Nobody says that most voteless men regarded a vote as unmanly.
5 If this were the case, it would infallibly appear in his manner towards our voteless friend.
6 The more so as there was a wave of indignation and anger sweeping over Australia, sympathetic with the indignation and anger of the voteless workers in the Queensland bush.
7 There is the thing that possessed Parker—the perception of the destructive significance of the repressed and balked instincts of the migratory worker, the unskilled, the casuals, the hoboes, the womanless, jobless, voteless men.
8 He is voteless, yet subject to income tax.
9 But, being voteless, there was no way in which their views could be authoritatively set forth.
10 The poorer citizens were voteless, and the plan of the aldermen was to levy the tallages per head, and not in proportion to the property of the inhabitants.
11 In vain: the demands of the voteless diggers went unheard.
12 Otherwise the consent of the voteless governed was obviously non-existent, and government was carried on in defiance of the absence of that consent.
13 National ignorance of our voteless plight is the single greatest barrier to progress on this front.
14 Their plight might have been summed up in a perversion of Gilbert’s lines— “Twenty voteless millions we, Voteless all against our will, Twenty years hence we shall be Twenty voteless millions still.”
15 Nobody says that any voteless men regarded it as unmanly.
16 Frequently the whole of the well-to-do townsfolk were voteless.
17 Politically speaking, they thus equate to thousands of “voteless” constituents who help GOP mapmakers top off the number of people required to create congressional and General Assembly districts.
18 But up until that time, they’re like a Zombie army of voteless pegs to be moved around on a gerrymandering board.
19 The huge populations of voteless citizens are partly a byproduct of harsh sentencing laws and mass incarceration that swept the country in recent decades.
20 Since his foray last week into truly oppositional and voteless territory – across the border to Mexico – his poll numbers have steadily risen, and they now show him nearly even with Clinton.