Not knowing just what is wrong with you can be very disempowering.

Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling, Jordan.

This is very disempowering, and means helplessness can take over.

The researchers found that disempowering photographs were equally common across all three countries.

Doctors told us there was nothing we could do - that was very disempowering.

Changing disempowering habits, beliefs and attitudes to positive ones is an important part.

An example of a disempowering photograph would be a woman tied up or contorted, with little care given to her own comfort.

This is a disempowering system that dehumanizes and deindividualizes the participants.

The debate is useful only if it jettisons some uniquely American disempowering myths about television.

Korten: It's the most disempowering myth that's out there.

It's one of the most disempowering experiences.

This disempowering cycle needs to be broken.

All addictions are supported by one or more disempowering selves that help with denial - not noticing the problem.

As well, the authors suggest that lack of purpose and a negative mindset combine with professional practice approaches to create a disempowering process.

Lack of method is as disempowering as lack of agreement.

It is quite possible for parenting education to have a disempowering effect, quite the reverse of what is intended.

That preliminary report said income management was a disempowering control measure and there was little evidence it was helping people.

It's quite a disempowering situation.

In addition government and community institutions reviewed the disempowering discourses which had informed many of their attitudes and actions toward disabled people.

As carers they will have their own opinions but our experience shows that carers and parents can be very disempowering towards disabled children.

During the protest it was very disempowering; the cops pushed and prodded and corralled us like cows.

However they cannot (and should not) take the matter out of your direct control as this can often perpetuate the disempowering feelings initiated by the experience itself.

Most disempowering polarised selves, high intensity patterns and addictions are directly linked to our core belief-adaption bind.

Protest movements exploit and widen the resulting legitimacy deficits, challenging the disempowering logic of neo-liberal globalisation.

The disempowering aspect of high heels plays a role in some men's sexual fantasies; "In high heels, women can't run away."