The result was a high percentage of Mexicans and their descendants being dispossessed of their property and the origin of systematic discrimination and oppression against the Mexican American community.
By the 12th century the term rōnin began to be used for samurai who, as a result of either losses in battle, the untimely death of their lord, or their own misdeeds, had been dispossessed of their fief and their noble sponsorship.
Yet Mr Bhattacharjee defended this outrage, claiming that the Maoists had been "paid back in their own coin .The dispossessed are not alone in their protests.
Map is not territory, and introducing or removing a name on the map does not invalidate the existence of the thing it refers to: it was European colonists, not their maps, who dispossessed the Native Americans.
First when, with a dozen minutes on the clock, Hull dispossessed their opponents high up the pitch only for his shot from the edge of the area to be gathered comfortably by Guzan; then, immediately after Jelavic's goal, when his header from Elmohamady's cross sailed wide.
The young – those under 35, let's say – have embraced the virtues of a tolerant, easy-going, multicultural society; many of those over 65, especially in the big cities, feel dispossessed, their old cultural certainties shattered; those in between – me and Paxman aside, perhaps – are just about swimming with the tide, or at least keeping our thoughts to ourselves.
It starts with the founding principles of the state such as the law of return, which allows Jews anywhere in the world - such as Nathan herself - to claim a right to migrate to Israel; but at the same time it denies millions of Palestinians the right to claim the homes they and their parents were dispossessed of 55 years ago.
"The essential truth is that Aboriginal people were dispossessed from their land by force, their populations reduced by disease and violence, and their cultural beliefs and practices disrespected and sometimes destroyed".
If the Mironoffs had been dispossessed of their wealth and their social status, the newly minted Mirrens were, nonetheless, able to generate a sense of their own exclusivity.
Gianroberto Casaleggio, Grillo's Internet strategist, called to discuss the plight of several thousand Sardinian farmers who were about to be dispossessed of their land because their mortgage rates had been drastically increased and they had defaulted on payments.
Paul Edwards, editor of The Deseret News, a church-affiliated newspaper in Utah, said, Latter-day Saintss, because of their history of persecution and forcefully being dispossessed of their livelihoods and properties, do have compassion and understanding" for immigrants.
