Sentence examples for dispossessed group from inspiring English sources

It echoes from the baseball sandlots of our national memory -- and from the lips of every member of every dispossessed group the pitcher disparaged in his infamous magazine interview.

His particular genius lies in his ability to take the misunderstood worldview of a dispossessed group and make it palatable to a diverse audience.

IT'S a puzzle: one dispossessed group after another — blacks, women, Hispanics and gays — has been gradually accepted in the United States, granted equal rights and brought into the mainstream.

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.

4For example: "Municipal law certainly governs persons, and even specific groups of persons, and not only dispossessed or marginal groups: but it does so in a different manner than the criminal law or constitutional rights law.

"I am currently working on finding three charities to whom I can be useful and with whom I can build a good relationship, with a particular emphasis on groups helping dispossessed or abused or destitute children, groups helping children to reconnect with nature and groups seeking the restoration of damaged ecosystems.

Ross, and many group members who maintained their connection to the land, had been working with cattle since the group was dispossessed of its traditional way of life about a century ago.

Vulnerable tribal peoples are being removed by force from India's tiger reserves and forests; tribal groups such as the Ogiek and Sengwer, the San, Maasai and Baka are being forced out of forests and wildlife-rich plains in Africa; and from Thailand to Ecuador, Cameroon to Bangladesh, ethnic groups are being dispossessed in the name of protecting nature.

This can lead the dominant group to feel robbed, or dispossessed.

In these times of declining social mobility, and as the gap between the rich and the poor ever increases, dominant groups attempt to divide the dispossessed by pointing to scapegoats to blame.

In contrast to Mark and his fellows, they are a more capable group insisting on casting themselves as dispossessed.