dispossession

How To Use dispossession In A Sentence

• Stick in hand, leathery skin and leather chappals worn to shreds, his dispossession was clear from his finely twirled white moustache and neat beard.
• Instead of traditional medical techniques, Spiritists use such practices as past-lives therapy, dispossession and exorcism therapies, acupuncture, chromotherapy, yoga therapy, and homeopathy.
• The most obvious form of this separation is the dispossession of agricultural producers from the land, but it also applies to artisanal production.
• Australia was only one chapter in the great narrative of empire, whose spread across the globe was everywhere hallmarked by cultural theft and indigenous dispossession.
• The point that the video makes -- and which is made in much more depth in the excellent new report "Carbon Trading - how it works and why it fails" -- is not only that it doesn't actually deliver emissions reductions but it also comes at great costs - such as dispossession of indigenous peoples - whilst rewarding the main polluters. Steve Kirsch: New Poll Shows Americans Prefer Fee-and-Dividend
• Our people too crossed the ocean of dispossession and displacement to become rightless labourers in the land of their birth. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Dispossession has been encouraged by the transformation of the estate to a modern commercial farm.
• Dispossession was further compounded by discriminatory legislation designed to control the native population.
• The sons of missionaries then filled various magistracies that were arising as a result of the rapid land dispossession and the destruction of African identity, culture and traditions. CONTENTS
• The NGO, the Trust for Community Outreach and Education, says the tribunal may also consider the "criminalisation" of land dispossession and landlessness. ANC Daily News Briefing