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- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispossess.
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“(vi) Thus art in one sense 'dispossesses' us of our habitual perception and restores to reality a dimension that necessarily escapes our conceptuality and our control.”
“And then Johnson dispossesses him with an excellent, stretching, just-a-tiny-bit-wrong-and-it's-a-penalty challenge.71 mins: City seem better since the arrival of Dzeko, something of a fulcrum for Nasri and Aguero to buzz around.”
The Guardian: Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton
“The move is brought to an end as Huth dispossesses Delfouneso, the Villa player windihing himself in the process as he runs into the defender.86 mins Not it's Stoke's turn to win a free-kick in a decent position – certainly well within Huth's range.”
The Guardian: Stoke v Aston Villa - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
“-- Palestinians are to be relegated to isolated powerless cantons under Israel's control before a "final solution" dispossesses or annihilates them; Israel is for Jews alone; after the 1967 war, the Allon Plan affirmed it - named after deputy prime minister Yigal Allon; his goal:”
A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue
“Why, Ahmadinejad asked the UN General Assembly, do the countries of the world sit there while Israel murders and dispossesses the Palestinian people?”
“Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.”
“And, of course, this ultimately dispossesses real Americans.”
All You Need To Know About The Awful Immigration Bill…In Senate Spanish
“Seeing why Christian belief is credible is inseparable from that transformation of the self and its habitual ways of working that is prompted by grace; when you see that the gospel is believable, you do so because you have in the same moment believed, that is, trusted yourself to the presence that decentres and dispossesses the self.”
“Whose testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being dispossessed: Those who should be ashamed are they who dispossesses others.”
“The government goes even further and dispossesses many peasants of the arable allotments they hold if they cannot show that they have adequate means to work the land; their allotments are then turned over to those who can show such means.”
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