Construction collapsed, which deprived the economy of a key source of slack-eliminating employment.
His wife too suffers from a system which treated her as a suspect but which deprived her of the facts.
They cynically changed the law to keep out the Chinese from Hong Kong, which deprived Britain of many brilliant entrepreneurs who went instead to America, Canada or Australia.
The peasants, who were resisting the centralising policies of the German princes – which deprived them of their traditional rights – were mercilessly slaughtered by the state.
The rock opera was performed with no chat between songs, which deprived us of the repartee of Townshend and Daltrey, whose patter has always been the best.
When he retained office in MacDonald's coalition, he had to leave the Labour Party and the NUR, which deprived him of his pension.
Even if it were, it would be impossible to overlook his abuse in custody, and status as a juvenile, which deprived him of mature judgment.
Trumbull called Hamilton's fatal duel with Aaron Burr in 1804, "the unhappy event which deprived the United States of two of their most distinguished citizens".
She was the first racer on the course, which deprived her of the chance to watch others negotiate the trickier parts of the course.
That provoked Chile, which deprived Bolivia of its coastline in the War of the Pacific of 1879-83, to recall its ambassador in Caracas.
The court also gave Contador a two-year ban from racing, applied retroactively, which deprived him of the Tour this year, as well as the Olympics in London.
