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How to use dispossessing in a sentence

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Canada in fact has a history of dispossessing aboriginal peoples of land and resources.
That can also mean dispossessing local people who, denied ownership of a forest they may have considered their own for centuries, tend to become protagonists in its destruction.
In 1552 the area passed into the hands of the Russians, who founded Ufa in 1574 and thereafter began colonization of the area, dispossessing the Bashkirs.
The noise as Flavio put them ahead with his third fine header of the tournament, and then when Manucho clipped a neat finish over the goalkeeper after dispossessing Joseph Mpondo, was astonishing.
This aggression is all the more repugnant as it is also aimed at dispossessing the Kosovars of their past by erasing any sign of their historical presence in Kosovo.
It is for this reason that I chose to save my anthropological alliance with the host-society by bestowing upon it its well-deserved and affectionate attention without dispossessing my hosts of their own dynamic qualities.
Representatives of indigenous peoples have expressed their fear that big economic development projects, particularly in the fields of tourism, mining and farming, will contribute to dispossessing them of their lands.
The promotion of private regulation aims at further dispossessing the State and also trade union organisations, in the application of international labour standards.
However, there is an increasingly loud indigenous voice asking for more economic opportunity and a chance to share in the wealth of the country that is premised on dispossessing the land of its original peoples.
I believe that, when you assume the pride of our contribution in, say, the First World War, you also assume the burden of dispossessing Japanese-Canadians in the Second World War.
Having begun the same move by dispossessing Samir Nasri, Senna showed the breadth of his talent in the space of a few seconds, even if his accuracy then deserted him somewhat after the break.
The government passed a decree at the end of the war dispossessing Sudeten Germans of their property, and almost all of them were forced to leave Czechoslovak territory.
He forced a fine save from Vanins before the break, after dispossessing Ritvars Rugins just inside the half and holding off the chasing mob to get his shot off.
The land was settled by dispossessing the native people who lived here.
Examples from Classical Literature
Grewgious's comfort and convenience would manifestly have been advanced by dispossessing him.
After dispossessing Robbie van der Laan he drove the ball across the goalmouth and Gary Jones had only to turn it into the net.
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