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How to use dispossessed in a sentence

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An action for mesne profits, unlike ejectment, allows the claimant to claim damages for his loss during the period that he has been dispossessed.
The true test whether a rightful owner has been dispossessed or not is whether ejectment will lie at his suit against some other person.
One yearns for a strong third party which can become the voice of the economically and politically dispossessed.
Do they have the guts to break with tradition, to govern for all, especially for the economically dispossessed and socially displaced?
He tends to celebrate characters that have been outcast by society, dispossessed, or had a run of hard luck.
This should entail allocating large tracts of unused state land to landless and dispossessed people.
It is predicated on sustaining a racist state-organization into the future, forever surrounded by those it has dispossessed and humiliated.
Many sympathised with Dayaks as an indigenous people dispossessed of their forests by rapacious New Order development.
The pit closures that followed the strike saw communities dispossessed of their living.
As specified by deprivation theory, people who feel powerless and dispossessed are especially likely to look to religion for compensation.
It's for a local charity dealing with soup-kitchens, the homeless, and disowned and dispossessed around the area.
Those dispossessed in these savage deportations have long since resettled, and no serious movement demands their return home.
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.
Finding themselves dispossessed of everything they owned, they became squatters in their former land.
As the new 20th century approached, Mary Jones was an aging, poor, widowed Irish immigrant, nearly as dispossessed as an American could be.
Up to five billion dispossessed and poor saw little or nothing of their wealth, said the Secretary General.
The workers were mainly peasants who have been dispossessed of their land and forced to go to major cities to find work.
But underneath the searing humour runs a strain of deep discontent at the lives of the dispossessed in society.
This time he is actively hated by the leaders of the dispossessed to whom he professes his allegiance.
Progressives should ask why the vote no longer provides the dispossessed with the same power.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Irish were dispossessed, kicked out, and they have been out ever since.
But the time had come when even these kings of birds were to be dispossessed.
Of course these two tribes were the first who were dispossessed of their lands by the Europeans.
One of them must have ordered Mr. Stanley dispossessed on his own responsibility.
We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
He and his wife and Rob, then a youth of nineteen, were descended upon, during a cold winter's evening, and dispossessed without warning.
At the other end of the table was the bird-faced officer Bert had dispossessed, still looking hostile and whispering about Bert to his neighbour.
I am one of the dispossessed, a sansculotte, a proletarian, or, in simpler phraseology addressed to your understanding, a tramp.
But the devil does not suffer himself to be easily dispossessed from a place in which he has fixed his garrison.
So that the zemindars were dispossessed, the country racked and ruined, for the benefit of an European, under the name of a farmer.
The question was, how could he now be dispossessed and vang Khan restored.
The bill provides that an innocent, third-party buyer of a foreclosed home could not be dispossessed of the home if the foreclosure was later found out to be fraudulent.
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