How To Use Dispossessed In A Sentence

In many of the worlds' bigger airports, the homeless and the dispossessed and the plain crooked are increasingly congregating, realising the scope they provide for buckshee food, drink, beds and bathroom facilities.
His father once asked for a cock-a-doodle-doo when the word for chicken eluded him. If you don't possess a language, you are dispossessed.
The pictures soon came to symbolize the dispossessed of America during the Depression; to the politically minded, they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate.
Writing on Alibayli’s Blog, even some of the dispossessed remain unimpressed by the campaign of street protests. Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition protests on hold, new concerns emerge
But underneath the searing humour runs a strain of deep discontent at the lives of the dispossessed in society.

We have to recognise them as a distinct people who were dispossessed of this continent and deal with them with respect. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Lastly, a person who has been wrongfully dispossessed may undertake a form of self-help known as re-entry.
Progressives should ask why the vote no longer provides the dispossessed with the same power.
In 1614 Hideyori fortified himself inside Osaka castle with over 100,000 troops, many of whom were ronin, dispossessed samurai whose masters had perished in battle.
You will rub shoulders with Hollywood stars and visit the poor and dispossessed. The Sun
Those dispossessed in these savage deportations have long since resettled, and no serious movement demands their return home.
Fear of the marauding rabble of dispossessed poor has existed for centuries.
The workers were mainly peasants who have been dispossessed of their land and forced to go to major cities to find work.
An entire people was dispossessed. Times, Sunday Times
Arnold has no time for the western powers which trumpet about democracy because white farmers are dispossessed of the land that their forefathers stole from Africans.
These are not sweet little kids any more - these are the teenagers, the morally lost, socially dispossessed gits who hang outside the off license letting off fireworks.
They have dispossessed her of her house.
We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters
And the predominantly male legal establishment is naturally reluctant to be dispossessed.
He tends to celebrate characters that have been outcast by society, dispossessed, or had a run of hard luck.
This time he is actively hated by the leaders of the dispossessed to whom he professes his allegiance.
They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, The Last of the Mohicans
The rise of fast growing slum quarters in cities, foul smelling, pestilent, disease ridden places where workers lived out short lives while working long hours, swelled with the dispossessed tenant farmers.
But Celtic went ahead in the 10th minute and it came after Stuart Duff had been dispossessed by Petrov close to the half-way line.
The government dispossessed the landlords of their property.
Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants.
An entire people was dispossessed. Times, Sunday Times
And the predominantly male legal establishment is naturally reluctant to be dispossessed.
It is predicated on sustaining a racist state-organization into the future, forever surrounded by those it has dispossessed and humiliated.
They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them. The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757
Environmentalists are failing to attract the disenfranchised, the disempowered, the dispossessed and the disengaged.
This should entail allocating large tracts of unused state land to landless and dispossessed people.
Rex Weyler, an American-Canadian journalist who sailed on the first boat to the Aleutian Islands, said: Greenpeace adopted a form of civil disobedience - it did for the environment what the civil rights movement did for the dispossessed. Greenpeace at 40: A global brand in good health or an out-of-touch bureaucracy?
You will rub shoulders with Hollywood stars and visit the poor and dispossessed. The Sun
The two exist in the same space, both geographically and intellectually, Palestine and Israel, homelands of the dispossessed, holy lands of mosque and synagogue, inimically opposed it seems because each claims dominion in the name of their God. Bin Laden's Speech - Part One
It recognised that Aboriginal people had lived in Australia for thousands of years and had been dispossessed of their lands. Times, Sunday Times
I think looking at us as vultures soaring over dispossessed people is a view born of ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Carew's restless disposition took him to Newfoundland, and on his return he successfully played the parts of a nonjuring clergyman, dispossessed of his living for conscience 'sake; a Quaker -- here is a good example of his wonderful gift -- in an assembly of Quakers; a ruined miller; a rat-catcher; and, having borrowed three children from a tinker, a Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
I think looking at us as vultures soaring over dispossessed people is a view born of ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed this social breakdown afflicts with equal vehemence those Aboriginal peoples who have never been dispossessed of their lands and who retain their classical traditions, cultures and languages.
Finding themselves dispossessed of everything they owned, they became squatters in their former land.
They are shunned, broken, dispossessed, and live a bleak, furtive life of agonizing loneliness.
I think looking at us as vultures soaring over dispossessed people is a view born of ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Its compelling first page draws you in to the strange world of Wilbur McCrum, dispossessed anti-hero extraordinaire and his outrageous adventures through cowboy country, meeting with tarts, religious swindlers, bank robbers, bounty hunters and freak shows, grappling with the problem of his great love, Ida May, who is dead and embalmed but being carted around by Wilbur. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010
Compensation could be payable to some dispossessed owners. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, Mowa Choctaw culture intersected with that of an even more famous group of dispossessed peoples, the Apaches.
The uprooted and the dispossessed must look for ways to rebuild their lives. Times, Sunday Times
They dispossessed him from his home.
The nobles were dispossessed of their lands after the Revolution.
They dispossessed him from his home.
Running the ball, the move came to nothing and Waterloo went back downfield for a decisive fourth try when Graham was isolated and dispossessed inside his own 22 and centre Mark Tattersall strode over to seal the comeback.
It tells the story of Vindici (played in our film by Christopher Eccleston), who, impoverished and dispossessed, returns to court to murder the villainous duke.
He's a cultural icon, a standard-bearer for the dispossessed yet still proud black urban youth.
Shortly after the Civil War, the ‘dispossessed and freebooters,’ as one rancher described them, established sprawling cattle ranches on the rich bottomlands of the Yellowstone River.
That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. Matthew Yglesias » Why They Fight
During the revolution, when the peasants of all the adjoining estates violently dispossessed their landlords of their property; when every adjoining chateau exhibited a scene of desolation and ruin; the peasants of this estate were remarkable for their moderate and steady conduct; so far from themselves pillaging their seigneur, they formed a league for his defence "-- Ils l'ont soutenùs," as they themselves expressed it -- _and he continued throughout, and is now in the quiet possession of his great estate_. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
Vryas gets the ball, but is dispossessed on the edge of the penalty area.
Waves of grain, fruited plains, dispossessed people, tears of rage.
They dispossessed him from his home.
We have to recognise them as a distinct people who were dispossessed of this continent and deal with them with respect. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
They soon increased their lead when Matthew Cox dispossessed his opposite winger on the half way line and outpaced the cover in a thrilling run to the line. Hargreaves again converted.
You can almost smell the stench of the garbage; poor families struggle in dismal apartments; the streets are populated with the homeless and dispossessed.
The nobles were dispossessed after the revolution.
They dispossessed him from his home.
Future decades saw the clan being systematically dispossessed of their land under apartheid laws until they became completely landless in the 1970's.
Compensation could be payable to some dispossessed owners. Times, Sunday Times
He makes a dash for the byline but is dispossessed before he can get a cross in.
It recognised that Aboriginal people had lived in Australia for thousands of years and had been dispossessed of their lands. Times, Sunday Times
Having ditched all that electrical equipment all those years ago he is coining it at the helm of the new folk movement of nice middle class young people who can really relate to the poor, the dispossessed and the colored folks.
Someone had taken the book away from him - he could still feel his anger at being dispossessed of it. THE BROKEN GOD
He was more interested in emancipating the dispossessed than in celebrating the body or floating the signifier. Literary Study
One yearns for a strong third party which can become the voice of the economically and politically dispossessed.
They dispossessed him from his home.
As great cities were being built pell-mell, millions of peasants were being dispossessed and bigger capital was destroying small artisanal and shopkeeping enterprises.
It's for a local charity dealing with soup-kitchens, the homeless, and disowned and dispossessed around the area.
At times there are echoes of the raw Gaelic keeners who sang the songs of the dispossessed.
The pit closures that followed the strike saw communities dispossessed of their living.
We have to recognise them as a distinct people who were dispossessed of this continent and deal with them with respect. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
He was quintessentially labor, he was uncompromising in his stance for the poor and the dispossessed, and he was unyielding in his respect for the dignity of work.
Duffy failed to deal with a kick from England outhalf Matthew Leek, delaying his pick up so long he was tackled and dispossessed.
Dispossessed people have the right to the lawful recovery of their property and compensation.
I remember the despair of educated land owners who had become dispossessed kulaks.
An entire people was dispossessed. Times, Sunday Times
He is the permanent Fool to Gambon's raddled Lear, yet in his refusal to kiss his master reminds us that even the dispossessed have their dignity.
The disconnected and dispossessed, like Mason, are left to take care of their body and not expect any ‘consumption’ beyond simple nourishment and promises.
Though her pictures of celebrities, particularly those of Monroe on the set of The Misfits, have come to define her in the mainstream, Arnold also chronicled the lives of the poor and the dispossessed, travelling to Cuba, Russia and Afghanistan, as well as China. The big picture: Eve Arnold's Bar Girl in a Brothel in the Red Light District, Havana, 1954
At a later stage, the tenant was able to assert his rights to possession of the land against anyone who dispossessed him.
Denied their identity, defined as subhuman, dispossessed of their land, their country and their freedom, millions became chattels in the ownership of others who convinced themselves that they were true masters of all they surveyed. ANC Today
Tostig, who had been dispossessed of his earldom, raided the south-east coast before joining the invasion by Harald Hardrada of Norway in northern England.
Surely he was only afraid his memories might fade, leaving him dispossessed.
Waves of grain, fruited plains, dispossessed people, tears of rage.
And she actively fought for the most dispossessed of that class, those who labored in the nation's fields.
The old story held that industry pulled recently dispossessed rural people to the city, where - along with deskilled artisans - they became part of a growing urban industrial proletariat.
An action for mesne profits, unlike ejectment, allows the claimant to claim damages for his loss during the period that he has been dispossessed.
Ridley knew a brief satisfaction at the thought that the man and his descendants had been dispossessed. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
But even here, on the Island, the makeshift homes of the country's dispossessed fill every space unoccupied by sunbeds and volleyball nets.
As specified by deprivation theory, people who feel powerless and dispossessed are especially likely to look to religion for compensation.
Certainly neither I, nor as far as I know any of my ancestors, ever dispossessed anyone of their land, language or self-esteem or prevented anyone being educated.
Not even ressentiment by the dispossessed escapes this religious traditionalism; the ethical prophet may be an exception.
The dispossessed "husbandmen" now find themselves without land or money and turn instead to theft. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
We find these vicious attacks on the LPM as a direct clampdown on the fundamental freedoms of poor people of South Africa to express themselves through public protest, and tantamount to the kind of brutalities inflicted on the dispossessed masses during the dark days of apartheid. ANC Daily News Briefing
I tried it on a Russian friend; he knew it, of course, and when he hummed it, balalaikas accompanied him, icy winds whistled across the steppes, and in the simple melody there was the sadness of a million dispossessed kulaks.
Hardly any local tories or rapparees are remembered in Connacht, the generally less fertile province to which the dispossessed ‘mere Irish’ were forced by Cromwell.
The true test whether a rightful owner has been dispossessed or not is whether ejectment will lie at his suit against some other person.
Glaswegian writer James Kelman gave voice to the oppressed, dispossessed, disillusioned working class, portraying characters such as Robert Hines in Bus Conductor Hines, Sammy Samuels in How Late it Was, How Late or the hundreds of characters in his short stories spending their existences on the broo or just talking in the pub.
But even here, on the Island, the makeshift homes of the country's dispossessed fill every space unoccupied by sunbeds and volleyball nets.
But by then Livingston should have killed the game when Fernandez dispossessed Murdock again in 67 and cut inside to Lilley who dallied before striking a tame shot wide.
They are bewildered to find themselves dispossessed, as their land is taken away without as much as "by your leave" for commercial exploitation by the towkay friends of the powerful. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
But the video referee ruled that Paul Johnson had been illegally dispossessed.
Only on one occasion, temporarily dispossessed of his own flat when the bathroom flooded, had Control stayed a night under the club's roof. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
In effect, then, the physicist has dispossessed the many imponderables in favor of a single imponderable -- though the word imponderable has been banished from his vocabulary. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
You will rub shoulders with Hollywood stars and visit the poor and dispossessed. The Sun
As the new 20th century approached, Mary Jones was an aging, poor, widowed Irish immigrant, nearly as dispossessed as an American could be.
He was dispossessed of his wealth.
Compensation could be payable to some dispossessed owners. Times, Sunday Times
In America the intense desire to accumulate wealth and power was democratized; the wealthy, the highborn, the titled, the poor immigrant boy, the disappointed New England businessman, the dispossessed farmer, the unemployed young man all believed they had a right to the pots of gold at the end of the American rainbow. Bird Cloud
Much of the author's fiction involves, for instance, her search for an authorial voice with which to tell, or rather retell, the stories of partially dispossessed women across the diaspora.
It is about the dispossessed who look to us to provide quality public services.
He appears as a ‘squirearch’, a man of standing in Megara, but subject to criticism and hostility, eventually betrayed by those he trusted, dispossessed of his estates in a civic upheaval, and forced into exile, where he dreams of revenge.
Do they have the guts to break with tradition, to govern for all, especially for the economically dispossessed and socially displaced?
It recognised that Aboriginal people had lived in Australia for thousands of years and had been dispossessed of their lands. Times, Sunday Times
Christ the prince of this world, the great destroyer, is cast out, is dispossessed, has his power broken and his attempts quite baffled. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
And it marks the great diffusion of these luxuries about this era, that on occasion of the reinstalment of two princes of Mecklenburg, who had been violently dispossessed by Autobiographical Sketches
The community claims to have been dispossessed of the land, about 80 km north of Pretoria, around 1917 under racially discriminatory laws.

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