Meanings of dispossess of in English

Wrens they can readily dispossess of an attractive tenement, and do.

Architects have been dismissed or dispossessed of the competence they used to have, says Zaera-Polo.

In a sense Irish is dispossessed of its Irishness.

Out-of-towners were dispossessed of a bit more cash by state legislators, who passed no-fault quickie-divorce codes.

The group are seen as the first ethnicity to be dispossessed of their land back in 1652.

Indigenous Africans were dispossessed of land and human rights during white minority rule under apartheid and during colonial times.

True, the king had expressed sympathy for what the defeated and dispossessed of Ireland had suffered in the royal cause.

He fills the roundhouse with Scarpes, and turns a blind eye when our tied clansmen are dispossessed of their farms.

In the 1970s, the Prudhoe community were dispossessed of their land when the apartheid government established the Ciskei as a homeland.

Mainly from tribes who feel they were dispossessed of their land by the white man, usually long ago, in the nineteenth century.

I was dispossessed of every item from my old life which could have reminded me who I was -except my son.

With one eye on a promotion to management at the bank where she works, she declines, and Ganush is dispossessed of her home.

The majority of black citizens who were dispossessed of their land during apartheid remains the greatest scar on the face of this nation.

Secondly, that they were dispossessed of these land rights as a result of racially discriminatory practices after 19 June 1913.

No doubt Bono gives some of his wealth to help the dispossessed of the world, but no doubt he retains a huge amount of it.

The author of the expose on how people worldwide are being dispossessed of their common ancestral lands will take your questions on Wednesday between 1-2pm.