VERB + DISEMPOWER
designed, head
DISEMPOWER + NOUN
opposition
ADV.
sometimes
verb
To strip power from (someone or some group), as:
A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia.
The reformation disempowered the established church and thus roiled the aristocracy.
Conflicts are designed to disempower the opposition.