Sentence examples for displace someone from inspiring English sources

To move up to the next rung, you necessarily have to displace someone, right?

When accused of destroying communities, Moses responded, reasonably enough, that a vision like his inevitably meant displacing someone: heed the complaints, and you'd just find yourself facing a different group of naysayers.

Of course, our temporary heaven had displaced someone else's.

If someone's first experience of O'Connor was "The Displaced Person" (1954), at the denouement of which three people passively watch a tractor roll down a slope and crush a fourth, the event would be unexpected and shocking.

It might seem to be more humane, and accurate, to give someone who is forced to seek refuge a more expansive designation: "displaced person".

— displaced person — in New York.

When The New Orleans Times-Picayune asked him to redecorate the temporary shelter of someone displaced by Hurricane Katrina, a project called Pimp My FEMA Trailer, Mr. Batt and Mr. Cianfichi did a design for a woman in her 70s.

One way in which runners can help whether or not they made it to New York is by visiting Race2Recover.com and donating their hotel room to someone displaced by Sandy.

The objective of resolution giving isn't just to share or displace the pressure onto someone else (despite that being in the spirit of Christmas) but to ultimately eliminate it.

And if I trapped and released them I was just displacing the problem to someone else.

(Maroon 5's song "Moves Like Jagger," which "Someone Like You" displaced last week, returns to No. 1 this week with 220,000).