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im pow er muhnt

  • n  the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

  • The sisters look Baywatch but talk Oprah, preaching empowerment and individuality.
  • Back in 1975, when Wilder was the only black in the state senate (and the first since 1890), he gave voice to his overarching aspirations, a notion of empowerment far beyond what .
  • He reached out to white business leaders, but he made black economic empowerment his new issue, tirelessly promoting it and warning that it had to happen.
News & Articles

  • Column: Despite cuts, Teen Empowerment will continue critical work in Somerville
    Over the past 21 years, Teen Empowerment has operated successful programs serving thousands of young people in Boston, Somerville and Rochester, NY. Despite this success, Teen Empowerment (like many other valuable programs) has faced significant cut backs in funding from several sources. In order to insure that Teen Empowerment be able to continue services to the greatest number of young people ...
    June 14, 2013 - Somerville Journal
  • Fifth-Third Bank's Empowerment Bus Comes to Mid-Michigan
    The Fifth Third bank's empowerment bus stopped by CAMW Thursday.
    June 13, 2013 - WILX 10 Lansing
  • S.Africa's Zuma says to amend black empowerment laws
    CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday the government planned a shake-up of its "black economic empowerment" policies aimed at redressing the imbalances of white-minority apartheid rule. Zuma also told parliament the state would take a hard line on labour unrest in the mining sector. "Our law enforcement agencies have been instructed not to tolerate those who ...
    June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Robert Gates in Wall Street Journal
    The agreement has changed the chemistry of the relationship,Mr. Gates told reporters. "Nobody's the boss or the occupier or however you want to put it, but there's a real sense of empowerment by the Iraqis."
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Wall Street Journal
    My return heralds for the people of Pakistan the turn of the wheel from dictatorship to democracy, from exploitation to empowerment, from violence to peace,Ms. Bhutto said at a news conference in Dubai.
  • Robert Mugabe in Reuters South Africa
    They (reports of suspension) are completely false. There is no nullification of the indigenisation and economic empowerment law, no nullification of the regulations which have been made,Mugabe told reporters as he toured tobacco auction...

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