Sentence examples for pattern of dispossession from inspiring English sources

And those events followed an even longer pattern of dispossession, including Canada's failure to live up to its promise to provide 1.4 million acres of land to Métis children as part of the Manitoba Act of 1870 (which, in 2013, was dubbed by the Supreme Court "inconsistent with the behaviour demanded by the honour of the Crown," about as harsh as a reprimand as you'll hear from such folks).

The uprooting of the 140,000 Jews of Iraq followed a Nazi pattern of victimisation - dismantlement, dispossession and expulsion.

Our study shows that the physical transformation of the territories and land control practices in Colombia follow patterns of 'accumulation by dispossession' and incorporation of small holder farmers through contract farming.

"Despite decades of dispossession, communal violence was minimal.

But the occupiers' sense of dispossession is fraught with racial and other ironies.

His internal landscape — "the homeless thing" — exactly paralleled the nation's sense of dispossession.

He briefly sent in the border guard, Israel's gendarmerie, reviving Arab fears of dispossession anew.

"The Politics of Dispossession" (Pantheon) was published in 1994.

Kleinschmidt is a technician of dispossession; he is not a therapist.

But you also have to remind yourself that it is evidence of dispossession.

Like many postcolonial fictions, Carpentaria is in part a chronicle of dispossession.