Sentence examples for a dispossessed from inspiring English sources

He is a yeoman, not a peasant, nor a knight, still less a dispossessed nobleman".

This theme – resentment towards a dispossessed people – is not only repeated throughout the book.

In May, a dispossessed farmer in the southern city of Fuzhou bombed government buildings, killing himself and two other people.

He tells of meeting giants on the A14 with the relish of a natural charmer, and swaggers about his ­woodland grove like a dispossessed monarch.

A dispossessed farmer asks in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939), "Isn't there anybody who knows what a shotgun is?" Thorstein Veblen asks the same question in Absentee Ownership: the Case of America (1923) and, in both cases, the question is, sadly, rhetorical.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are home to 100,000 Hmong, a dispossessed ethnic group of mountain people from Laos and Cambodia whom the C.I.A. enlisted to fight the North Vietnamese and their supporters, and were promised resettlement in the United States after the war.

First, the anti-tax Tea Parties in April began energizing white people in suburban and ex-urban communities...Then Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination allowed the white people-are-a dispossessed majority-crowd to grab the platform and explicitly re-introduce racism into the discussion.

Like Earl and Huey Long, of Louisiana, he was a kaleidoscopically strange and contradictory political beast: a man of civil rights, a man of fallen character, a cunning operator, an arrogant hack, a builder, an underminer, a spokesman for the dispossessed, a bullshit artist.

How can a people dispossessed of their homeland get caught up in a tournament's nationalist frenzy?

Hell hath no fury like a tycoon dispossessed.

"The figures that I draw are representing marginalised communities and have a certain dispossessed feeling about them".