Sentence examples for dislocation of communities from inspiring English sources

In contrast with the dams, flooding and dislocation of communities associated with large hydro power projects, well-planned run-of-the-river microhydro plants do minimal damage to surroundings, energy experts say.

His finest novels trace the dislocation of traditional communities in the wake of the Highland clearances.

But in places like this small, dusty town, located high on the Tibetan plateau in the western Chinese province of Qinghai, the most widespread problem is the dislocation of nomadic communities that comes with rapidly enforced top-down development.

Perhaps the current dislocation of the gay community has something to do with the fact that the battles we have been engaged in lack bloody spectacle.

Hunt argues: "Globalisation has created a sense of loss and of dislocation amongst our communities.

A number of businesses and brands have already seized on aspects of the digital distemper: the loss of real human connection and community, the dislocation of the poor and elderly, the rise of cyberbullying, the collapsing quality of content and concern about whether heavy mobile phone use could microwave our brains.

It's a community of communities".

But this isn't a simple momentary slip, rather it occurs within a social context of distrust between a minority community and the police, of economic dislocation, of racial divisions, of unhealed wounds of disrespect and dehumanization.

"Should we have scrapped plans for the many new, sorely needed academic buildings that will serve our community for decades to avoid a temporary dislocation of sports facilities?" she asked in an e-mail.

The dislocation of phone numbers has created logistical challenges.

The album is about the dislocation of stereotypes over centuries.