Sentence examples for were depriving from inspiring English sources

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were depriving

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To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

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The drought and the bears were depriving wolves of the opportunity to matter.

But there were also reports that attackers were depriving survivors even of the right to bury their relatives.

In order to apply pressure, Jude's kidnappers were depriving her of food, slowly starving her to death.

If she didn't buy the low-carbohydrate products, like the frozen muffins she often smears with butter, she said, she would feel as if she were depriving herself.

Here, the record at best offers scant support for Congress’ conclusion that States were depriving patent owners of property without due process of law by pleading sovereign immunity in federal- court patent actions.

BEIJING — China suffered another unexpected public relations setback on Wednesday when Buddhist monks interrupted a government-managed news media tour in western China by waving a Tibetan flag and protesting that the authorities were depriving them of their human rights.

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They said we were deprived, don't remember being deprived.

"I'm not saying we were deprived.

Lepers were deprived of civil rights, rounded up and confined.

We were deprived of sleep, of food, of water.

"We were deprived of our right to self-determination.

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