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1. England’s green and pleasant land is no exception, with every home an entertainment gin palace, where businesses thrive and prosper in the information age, and where the electronically dispossessed watch the valves and fuses of their analogue existence slowly burn down towards a state of mass extinction
2. images of riot and unrest, of the dispossessed and the establishment
3. The Treaty of Rabbit Creek dispossessed the Choctaws and sent them packing to the Indian Territory
4. 39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it
5. So to solve two problems with one stroke, Dren bought the lands and buildings in Shinosa at the going rate, and sold them to the dispossessed from Whiskers Delta, who were allowed to take possession immediately upon promise of payments spaced over ten years
6. A two hour walk towards the mountains gave Kanu plenty of time to explain that although we were in Nubia, his family weren’t Nubians, they’d been dispossessed from their home in the south by the British generations before, and resettled here
7. They were oppressed and dispossessed
8. Friend of the dispossessed, shroud of evil, accessory to theft, violence, drunkenness, lust
9. A strong column of Roman infantrymen then opened a way through the crowd for the cavalrymen escorting the dispossessed king, going through the nearby Jaffa Gate
10. What was not communally owned was offered in patches for the millions of unemployed and dispossessed to scratch out a meagre existence
11. Unfortunately, she died of a fever during our sea trip and I landed in England alone, where I learned that my mother’s family had been dispossessed for cause of debts
12. The many separate tribal groups quickly joined their disparate forces, built an army to rival anything the dispossessed ones could come up with
13. ” Smart techno-labor built by brute labor and then used against the common labor for brute economic advantage is malicious and self-destructively creating an ever-increasing unemployable and dispossessed class: the non-trepreneur
14. You bring violence to yourselves, to your shores, when you refuse to hear the cries of the hungry, poor, homeless, dispossessed and oppressed
15. Revolition spoke through I'munity on behalf of the dispossessed Alter-Spaces
16. The dispossessed young seek it while the powerful elders resist it
17. The masses of the world, the billions of dispossessed, powerless poor were left out of the equation
18. Yet it is the corruption and blindness of this completely unquestioned freedom which is destroying the planet, as well as guaranteeing the suffering and poverty of all the billions of dispossessed and oppressed
19. You do not have to worry about all of the American fleets around the world upholding their orders to support all the dictators in the world and oppress all the billions of powerless dispossessed poor so you can but gas cheaper than anywhere else on earth
20. Europe forced the dispossessed Jews to colonize a land that did not belong to them
21. Battling over the remains of the carcass of the dying Empire writhing in agony… as millions of poor, powerless people who are not killers…are killed, starve, die, are dispossessed, torn from their homelands…and have new abstract borders created out of thin air… and having these imaginary arbitrary boundaries dictated to them; by total strangers of an elite class: not even living on their Continent
22. They are further represented as seeking liberty to transmigrate into the bodies of two thousand swine, and as accomplishing the destruction of the whole herd as by the passage of some malignant whirlwind; * at another time as possessing a slave-girl at Philippi, and enabling her owners to make 'much gain’ by her supernatural spiritualism; a 'divination’ so effectual that when the spirit was cast out there was no legerdemain remaining, or natural clairvoyance, so that the 'hope of their gains was gone:’—loudly crying up the apostleship of Paul and Silas as 'the servants of the Most High God,’ so as to fasten the brand of their abominable advocacy upon the ministers of the Gospel—and then leaving the wrathful proprietors of the dispossessed medium to wreak their vengeance on the evangelists before the magistrates of Philippi, who beat them cruelly with rods and cast them into the prison
23. 12) of the dispossessed spirits of darkness, and rule as guardians over the earth (over 'five ’ or 'ten cities,’ according to desert), enjoying its beauty and glory as a whole, and 'inheriting’ it, in a sense the most complete and satisfying until its end in the final conflagration? Caught up to meet their Savior 'in the air’ (ajrpaghso>meqa eijv aje>ra, 1 Thess
24. to be dispossessed of home and belongings while huge tidal waves inundated the planet's
25. Within a few years, two and a half million Americans would pull up stakes and head west into an uncertain future—rootless, dispossessed, bereft of the simple comfort and dignity of having a place to call home
26. Mr Samgrass was a genealogist and a legitimist; he loved dispossessed royalty and knew the exact validity of the rival claims of the pretenders to many thrones; he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favour, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith, and later liked to attend benediction in the chapel of Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; he loved forgotten scandals in high life and was an expert in putative parentage; he claimed to love the past, but I always felt that he thought all the splendid company,
27. Frequently, brown and withered country women with broods of towhaired silent children spent the night there, women widowed by the war, dispossessed of their farms, seeking relatives who were scattered and lost
28. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped
29. And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand
30. And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous
31. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression
32. "This has been a dull, prosy day," yawned Phil, stretching herself idly on the sofa, having previously dispossessed two exceedingly indignant cats
33. Even if we admit that under a combination of circumstances specially unfavorable for the government, as in France in 1870, any government might be forcibly overturned and the power transferred to other hands, the new authority would rarely be less oppressive than the old one; on the contrary, always having to defend itself against its dispossessed and exasperated enemies, it would be more despotic and cruel, as has always been the rule in all revolutions
34. Whether he had been dispossessed, Mr
35. A citizen comes before this House, and complains that he is dispossessed of his common right by arbitrary power
36. If, after a cause has been heard by a court, and a citizen put in possession of a property, by a decree of that court, he is dispossessed of it by military violence, where, if not before this House, is he to prefer his claim for redress? There is no court before which he can go, because the court which is the last resort in this case has already unavailingly given its decision
37. What, then, is this case? An individual comes before us, and says, that after having been put in possession of a piece of land, (I speak not of the validity of his title; it is not concerned in this question,) he was dispossessed by military force of this property
38. Much less would they have endured, military as the nation is becoming by the introduction of large standing armies, that he should have been dispossessed of his property by an armed military force, at the fiat of the Crown
39. It is in the very teeth of Magna Charta, which says that a freeman shall not be dispossessed of his freehold without a better right is ascertained
40. Nor did they then, nor have they since, dispossessed the Spanish troops of the post which they occupied
41. impossible to see how an individual having property, in which he was put in possession in 1804, by a judicial decision, could be dispossessed of it in 1807, 148;
42. if a citizen is put in possession of property by a decree of a court, and afterwards dispossessed by military power, where should he come if not to this House to claim redress? 150;
