| Some say that it would be cruel to dispossess these people of the only means of making money that they have. |
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| Lords who unjustly dispossess their vassals can expect punishment from a higher authority. |
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| He didn't need to laugh at me as I failed to dispossess him, or to use his goalkeeper to run upfield to have a punt at goal. |
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| Reconstruction projects that, in compliance with traditional role models, address men dispossess women of their newly gained potential. |
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| One of the most powerful means of white control during the apartheid years was to dispossess black people of their land. |
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| Another weekend, another invader with a British passport threatening to dispossess America of a million more dollars. |
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| This made it impossible to dispossess his three daughters when dividing up the land. |
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| She explained how colonial laws had been used to dispossess indigenous peoples of their lands and resources. |
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| We do not accept that unfettered commercial exploitation of our genetic resources should continue to dispossess and impoverish us. |
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| Publicly, Bowen did not challenge the government's right to dispossess him, claiming only that it must be done in the right way. |
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| Workers feared, often quite correctly, that the new machines might dispossess them of their jobs. |
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| The Government of Canada does not dispossess third parties, nor does it force them to sell their lands unwillingly. |
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| If it continues to have the ambition to dispossess India of the remaining part of the state through a proxy war or diplomatic gamesmanship, no solution is envisageable. |
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| They see in it just one more ploy to dispossess and acculturate them. |
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| Other officials have threatened that the next step will be to seize white-owned mines and businesses, and then to dispossess Zimbabwe's Asian citizens. |
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| Joan was able to persuade her father not to dispossess her husband completely, but Llywelyn lost all his lands west of the River Conwy. |
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| There were occasional retreats to type for Hargreaves: a clattering challenge to dispossess David Pizarro and start another move which saw another of his own crosses dealt with. |
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| Unless otherwise provided by law or other stipulations, the handing over to the creditor of the deed recording the existence of the right shall dispossess the settlor. |
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| To turn politics into a matter of expertise means to dispossess citizens of their priorities by reducing the political game to an exercise in universal rationality. |
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| To invade and dispossess the people of an unoffending civilized country would violate morality and trangress the principles of international law, but savages were exceptional. |
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| The principle of self-determination could not be applied to the decolonization of Gibraltar because the current inhabitants were not a colonized people but had been used to dispossess the indigenous Spanish population. |
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