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Dispossessing meaning
present participle and gerund of dispossess
Example sentences (10)
Maintaining it has meant keeping them marginalised and excluded ever since, gradually dispossessing them of ever more land.
Restored to seven players, Britain won the ball back to stave off the Canadian comeback with Glover dispossessing Oworu at the breakdown.
The policemen, including two Assistant Superintendents of Police and an Inspector, had whisked their unsuspecting victims to three states before dispossessing them of the said amount equivalent to N4.
Ultrarich cabals and govt are fleecing, dispossessing and depopulating most of the world with deadly products and pollutants, etc. to save themselves from the People.
Another returnee, Kingsley Okonkwo, was arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, for allegedly dispossessing a laptop dealer of three Apple laptops valued at N1.5million at gunpoint.
Dr. Bitrus Pogu, National President, Middle Belt Forum, MBF, in a press statement said, “Communities in the Middle Belt Region seem to be suffering from a deliberate agenda poised at dispossessing the natives of their ancestral lands.
History has described this process as “stealing” or “dispossessing” Africans’ birthright to feed the growing industry in European countries.
By early December, Llywelyn controlled all of Gwynedd Is Conwy apart from the royal castles at Dyserth and Dnoredudd as a reward for his support and dispossessing his brother-in-law, Rhys Fychan, who supported the king.
Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks.
In his book Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks, Mark David Spence made the point that in order to create these uninhabited spaces, the United States first had to disposess the Indians who were living in them.