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Meaning of "were dispossessed"
This phrase refers to the act of having property or possessions taken away or seized from someone, often by force or legal means, leaving them without ownership or control over their belongings
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The natives were dispossessed and sent away.
During the second world war many areas were dispossessed.
They also were dispossessed of their lands.
The few who remained were dispossessed.
They were dispossessed and became extinct soon after colonization.
Several men with large landed estates were dispossessed and executed or exiled.
The restoration of land rights is based on the actual rights that were dispossessed.
The land they were dispossessed of was then leased out to white pastoralists.
But surely one should also wish that for the descendants of those who were dispossessed.
Existing inhabitants were dispossessed and deported to Germany.
One year later the Germans living in the Sudetenland were dispossessed.
Over time the Wampanoag were dispossessed of their lands.
Some were dispossessed of their properties in Rwanda before being relocated to the camp.
Not all of the Palestinians who were dispossessed were expelled.
The family were dispossessed during the Cromwellian period.
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They and the Aborigenes took over Umbria but were dispossessed by the Tyrrhenians.
The Jacobins were dispossessed of the municipality and Chalier was arrested.
Their land was desolated ; they were dispossessed.
Some Algerians were dispossessed of their land.
Octavian 's land redistribution caused widespread tensions, as farmers were dispossessed in favour of soldiers.
The previous Chaudhrys were dispossessed for resistance to the British during the War of Independence.
At that point, they suddenly fell from the Sultan 's favour and were dispossessed.
For this his family were dispossessed by the Cromwellians.
During the French Revolution, the Dominican monks were dispossessed.
Many Catholics were dispossessed and their lands given to Anglican and Protestant settlers from Britain.
Indigenous people of South Africa were dispossessed of land by the Europeans.
The shōen ( feudal manors ) were obliterated, and court nobles and absentee landlords were dispossessed.
Overnight, communities were dispossessed of their traditional way of life.
The nuns remained in that convent until 1876 when they were dispossessed.
Too many times, they were dispossessed of their lands.
They were dispossessed in 1651 by the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Do you know how many residents were dispossessed because of the Olympics?
Both counts were dispossessed of their counties at the Assembly of Aachen in 828.
The Bader, Meyer and Heilbronn families were dispossessed of their property.
Ii To persons who were dispossessed of the said properties because of the events of 1974 ;.
The Counts of Toulouse and their allies were dispossessed and humiliated, and their lands annexed.
Its German residents were dispossessed and expelled, and replaced with Russians.
People, of whom 10 were children, were dispossessed of their dwelling.
Over 400 landlords were dispossessed by agricultural labourers ( often ITGWU members ).
Into foreign lands, and were dispossessed of their property, and.
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A thick darkness is the life of the dispossessed
The natives were dispossessed and sent away
