The futility of dispossessing the middling rich would be as marked as its immorality.
The earliest case noted in this connection was prosecuted in 1580 by the asesor of the governor against Dona Lucia de Loaxa, the widow of an encomendero, with the object of dispossessing her of an encomienda held at Butuan, Mindanao.
This same man gave testimony against me afterwards, stating that I had sold the whole quarter-section, and I had to pay the Indians for dispossessing them.
When each tribe was settled in its lot, it was to address itself, in detail, to the task of dispossessing such Canaanites as yet lingered there.
Secondly, That for a very long time they cannot comprehend our motives for coming amongst them, or our object in remaining, and may very naturally imagine that it can only be for the purpose of dispossessing them.
The story of that war and of the consequences of simultaneously dispossessing the French enemies of the colonies, and tightening the reins of government, belongs to the next volume of the series,--the Formation of the Union.
The King knew that he might count upon every sacrifice from the respectful attachment of his grandson, save that of the throne; and although he had adhered officially to the principle of the dispossessing of Philip V.
A bishop will find excuses, I warrant you, for dispossessing the native clergy, and of putting our men into their berths.
Bonaparte, fascinated by the career of Alexander the Great, pictured himself riding to India on the back of an elephant and dispossessing England of her most precious colonial dependencies.
They approved neither of dispossessing the king of Saxony nor of extending the Tsar's influence westward by giving him Poland.
It occurred to the youthful Maurice, Duke of Saxony, that by aiding the emperor against the Protestants he might find a good excuse for dispossessing his Protestant relative, John Frederick, of his electorate.
And he scorned Hugh for dispossessinghimself of them, and reducing the Earlston rooms into rooms of ordinary habitation.
Yet dying would be of no use, for there was Islay who would come next to him, who never would have dreamt of dispossessing him, but who, if this was true, would need to stand aside in his turn and make room for Will.
They also began to mine against another tower (tornellam) of the outer ballium, but by countermining we succeeded in dispossessingthem of the work.
According to their traditions, they came to this country before the Creeks, dispossessing a people of whom there is now no record.
The Catholic priests were remarkable for their zealous pretensions to peculiar powers in dispossessing demons, by fasting and prayer, and they were detected in numerous frauds.
The Sacs and Foxes were also trespassers upon Illinois soil, dispossessing by conquest, after the manner just related, the Santeaux, who claimed the soil from which they were driven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispossessing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
