Sentence examples for as dispossessed from inspiring English sources

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The dirt-poor whites in Faulkner's novels are as dispossessed of America as the Negro, by the Civil War, the Depression, by sour land, isolation, and corrupt government.

The battle is for those who see themselves as dispossessed, prey to joblessness and crime, and open to the blandishments of what are viewed in French politics as extremes.

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As soon as Osorio dispossessed Parker on the edge of the Mexican area he cariied the ball 60 yards forward down the right.

It would be against the rules of bloodcurdling serial fiction to reveal what was happening behind the wall in that house on Barton Street – except to say that the dreadful world has space in it for the possessed, as well as the dispossessed.

Ras Baraka delivered speeches in the style of a street preacher, rousing Newark's dispossessed as forcefully as Booker inspired philanthropists.

In truth, the possessed -- of any stripe probably -- are as inwardly divided as the dispossessed.

Palestinians rejected the plan as it dispossessed them of their lands.

In his black-and-white world, there is no middle class, just "the people who got it all and the people who got nothing", as one dispossessed homeowner puts it.

There was more shoddy Brazilian defending involved too, as Fabian dispossessed an opponent far too easily and eventually saw his overhead effort rebound off the crossbar.

The roles were reversed shortly afterwards, as Alex Lawless dispossessed Nat Knight-Percival on the halfway line and gave it to Gray.

According to historian Anatol Lieven, Smetona and Voldemaras saw themselves as the dispossessed true heroes of the independence movement, who despaired of returning to power by democratic means.

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