Sentence examples for they were dispossessed from inspiring English sources

In 1793 they were dispossessed by the French Revolutionary regime, and Monaco was annexed to France.

They're aware that the socioeconomic élite lawyers, financiers, and consultants profited mightily from the economic changes by which they were dispossessed over the past couple of decades, and I suspect that they don't want to be the objects of such people's charity.

Presently, they are dispossessed and their quarters are taken over by a famous producer, once widely acclaimed as a boy genius but now just a bit down on his luck.

They're dispossessed and we're outraged.

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 land redistribution of the 1997 was mainly from communal holds (grazing lands) and land from the holdings of the so-called "bureaucrats" who were dispossessed because they were at different administrative positions in the ex-military rule, which reigned from 1974 to 1991.

As the whites moved in, the aborigines were dispossessed.

Forty thousand families were dispossessed before the junta was overthrown.

At that time in photography, a lot of artists were showing people who were dispossessed.

The Jesuits were dispossessed just more than 200 years later and the Brera became state property.

The Africans were dispossessed, leaseholds of land were restricted to white settlers, and native reservations were established.