Sentence examples for dispossession on from inspiring English sources

What followed was a drama of redemptive, liberating settlement on one side and catastrophic dispossession on the other — all of it taking place on a patch of desert land too small for easy division and too imbued with historical and holy claims for rational negotiation.

Linklater notes that dispossession on other continents was also justified by the presumed superiority of the modern survey.

(In a sense America has recently experienced cultural dispossession on a national scale, and continues to do so).

But while Manchester is reclaiming some power from London-centric politicians, the move might lock it into a model of development that makes it look more like the capital a thrusting, prosperous place with rampant inequality and dispossession for those on the losing side.

Bruce Dov Krulwich Beit Shemesh, Israel, May 18 , 2008• To the Editor: Sixty years after Israeli independence, it is time for Jews to acknowledge the painful truth: the Jewish state was born on the forced expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

There are times the giddy dispossession borders on possession, or when an exorcism might seem in order.

The British were armed to the teeth and from the moment they stepped foot on our country, the slaughter and dispossession of Aborigines began.

Jacquie Zaluda Highland Park, Ill., Feb. 8, 2009 • To the Editor: If President Obama wants to be heard by Muslims, he must strip away the politics and honestly answer the question: "What's the moral justification for the dispossession of the Palestinians from Palestine by the Israelis that has gone on systematically since 1948?" And then he must act on it.

But what the Israelis do, in killing Palestinians on a much larger scale, is a continuation of the horrific and unjust dispossession of the Palestinian people".

The dispossession of black South Africans accelerated.

Several latched on to a quote from Graeme Leach, of the Institute of Directors, who compared Miliband's proposal to take land away from developers if they failed to build houses to Stalin's dispossession of the kulaks.