Adjective : The modern city dweller may feel spiritually dispossessed. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Landlords have dispossessed many old tenement buildings. From Dictionary.com.
If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com - Latest Articles] Reference
Well the tent cities of the dispossessed are a fine approximation and are likely larger than the 'villes of the' 30's, as there are more of us. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off] Reference
Of the 1079 households identified as dispossessed and affected by group areas legislation in the Knysna claim, 822 were classified coloured and 257 classified African. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Its a wonderful feeling to become 'dispossessed' from ones possessions!. From Wordnik.com. [Sophie Keller: How Happy Is... 5 Ways To Revamp Your House Without Moving] Reference
Restitution of Land Rights Act and whether they were "dispossessed" of any rights in the land. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Gradually some sense of what Ramsey might mean by a 'dispossessed', self-losing theology comes into focus. From Wordnik.com. [Addresses given to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey: I. Theology in the Face of Christ] Reference
So, the criminal is one of the 'dispossessed', is he (i.e. - they once had something, but someone's taken it away) - who then dispossessed Fred Barras?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-22] Reference
That is, to resettle the "dispossessed" Gaza settlers there. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
The Communist Party, already discredited, is being dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Idols] Reference
She is a cartographer in the land of those who are most dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Baudo Sillerman: Reading The New Yorker , Thinking About Daphne Merkin] Reference
Fortunes are lost, families are dispossessed and livelihoods are ruined. From Wordnik.com. [Quick Read] Reference
Some of the army of the dispossessed are nomads who have lost their herds. From Wordnik.com. [Battlefields Of The Food War] Reference
The dispossessed had Kennedy brothers fighting for them for more than 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Schimmelman: Thank You, Senator Kennedy] Reference
The Democratic Party likes to present itself as the champion of the dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [David Coates: The Foreclosure Crisis That Will Not Go Away] Reference
"He's reaching out to the young, poor, disaffected and dispossessed," claims his aide. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Buyer Beware] Reference
There he was, full-frame in their cameras, standing so humbly, like all the other dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Loneliest Hero] Reference
It would leave many Muslims permanently dispossessed, making them the Palestinians of the Balkans. From Wordnik.com. [Ethnic Cleansing] Reference
The dispossessed "husbandmen" now find themselves without land or money and turn instead to theft. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
At least 700,000 citizens of Bosnia and Hercegovina have been dispossessed in the last month alone. From Wordnik.com. [A Riptide Of Refugees] Reference
At present, the relocation program is in limbo, while 800 already dispossessed Navajos await homes. From Wordnik.com. [Range Wars] Reference
People are being dispossessed and losing their livelihoods -- displaced in a sudden and brutal way. From Wordnik.com. ['A FEARFULNESS IN THE AIR'] Reference
Disputes over land ownership prevent breaking ground on new homes for the displaced and dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [Anne C. Richard: Surviving the Blame Game in Haiti] Reference
Which is not to say the aggrieved and dispossessed don't exist, or that they never take to the streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Streets Are Silent] Reference
Last year's votes also proved that politicians must now pay attention to the excluded and the dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [A Blessedly Boring Year] Reference
But Lebed's voice resonates with the angry, dispossessed constituency who previously supported the communists. From Wordnik.com. [Lebed's On The March Again] Reference
By showing the stoicism of her subjects, Lange restored dignity to the dispossessed during the Great Depression. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Dignity In Poverty] Reference
As the hunt for the missing continues, aid agencies are scrambling to help those hurt or dispossessed by the storm. From Wordnik.com. [‘A Tragic Situation’] Reference
(Saben is a usurper, who has dispossessed King Nentwin and taken possession of his castle and his daughter Herrat.). From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"The voice on the line told me to stop defending the poor and the dispossessed or else I would be at risk," he recalls. From Wordnik.com. [Color My Money Green] Reference
It is time -- past time, actually -- to say goodbye to the Times Square of legend, the village green of the dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Damon Runyon Hello, Mickey Mouse] Reference
Li Xinyuan, 45, a dispossessed subsistence grower, says local authorities promised to provide new jobs but never delivered. From Wordnik.com. [GAMES AND GRIEVANCES] Reference
And so he hath no scheme to marry me with the miserable Neapolitan noble who held our lands while we were dispossessed, I care not!. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
The voices in Thompson songs often belong to the mad and the murderous, the alcoholic and the dispossessed, even a grave robber or two. From Wordnik.com. [Not Easily Categorized] Reference
Those reforms included neutral arbiters of land claims, buyouts of landowners and giving state-owned property to the poor and dispossessed. From Wordnik.com. [Land Grab] Reference
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