(1) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.
(2) But buyers rarely occupy the properties, leaving parts of prime central London empty of residents and any remaining local shops bereft of customers popping out to buy a paper or pint of milk.
(3) Best of the bunch is 2006’s Tempbot , which beautifully satirises the spirit-crushing ennui of office environments by imagining a robot struggling to connect with homo sapiens co-workers who often seem as bereft of humanity as he is.
(4) Alexander also believes that a cash-strapped populist campaign, bereft of helicopters and glitz, matches the austere times.
(5) Hillsides are bereft of trees, leaving communities such as hers increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides.
(6) The mass sell-off of council housing – never replaced – left many working class communities bereft of affordable homes for their children.
(7) Then there was the shot curled sumptuously on to the angle of post and bar as half-time approached that left Mourinho slumped over the wall in his dug-out, aghast that one of his players could be so bereft of fortune.
(8) "They knew I was not into sharing, but after she left, I was pretty obviously bereft.
(9) Newcastle may have spent more than £80m in the last two transfer windows but they have lost their last six away matches in the Premier League: rudderless and bereft of confidence, Monday can surely only go one way.
(10) Critics say shuanggui detainees, bereft of legal protection, are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses.
(11) It’s so artistically bereft that only a belief in a higher power could explain its existence.
(12) No sooner had punk exploded into the mainstream, it seemed suddenly tired and bereft of new ideas; the result being lots of bands playing the same three chords, dressed in the same studded jackets and shouting "oi" a lot.
(13) Updated at 5.36am BST 5.08am BST Guardian commentator Gary Younge says Obama looked tired and defensive , bereft of his usual charisma, and declares Romney the winner: Poorly moderated and often wonkish, the debate frequently got swamped in the kind of detail that few could follow and with charges and counter-charges that few could immediately verify.
(14) Alone and bereft, he found himself with the razor blade.
(15) If we don't make it known that most happiness studies say that mothers are no happier than childless women – sometimes quite the reverse – then women without children will always unnecessarily feel bereft.
(16) Bereft of company, he decides to awaken a female fellow passenger, leading to an unexpected romance.
(17) "No one could fail to be deeply moved by the terrible predicament faced by these men struck down in their prime and facing a future bereft of hope," he said.
(18) They are, and it’s worth having a sober discussion about what to do about these militants, bereft of whitewashing the existence of George W Bush or watching someone like John McCain score sad points by crowing that he was right about this one of 75 immediate existential threats he’s seen looming from every shadow for five years.
(19) His concession speech was graceful enough, but it soon became clear that he was shell-shocked, bereft.
(20) In defence Ron Vlaar was left wanting when up against Zamora while Austin’s movement was too much for a team bereft of confidence.
Devoid
Definition:
(v. t.) To empty out; to remove.
(v. t.) Void; empty; vacant.
(v. t.) Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.
Example Sentences:
(1) This treatment is usually well tolerated but not devoid of systemic effects.
(2) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(3) Immature follicles are practically devoid of receptors for this hormone.
(4) Coelenterate and poriferan connective tissues were devoid of these acid polysaccharides.
(5) Endotoxin is virtually devoid of effects at the metastatic level.
(6) The cytotoxicity was complement independent, as demonstrated by studies with heat-deactivated serum devoid of extrinsic complement.
(7) Eyes exposed to ultraviolet radiation with their lenses intact were devoid of significant retinal lesions.
(8) The infected flight muscle fibres of both "resistant" Aedes aegypti and "susceptible" Aedes togoi are almost totally devoid of glycogen granules, but show no other ultrastructural change from the uninfected state.
(9) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(10) Whey obtained by acid precipitation or by the application of rennin was devoid of bactericidal activity but was capable of slowing down proliferation of E coli.
(11) All these treatments, some of which were offered as a substitute to surgery, often give interesting results, but are not devoid of danger.
(12) The neutral polymer was devoid of type 6 activity although it was serologically active.
(13) The above analysis suggests that in aqueous solution the protein is devoid of alpha-helical and beta-conformations but that it contains a significant amount of turns.
(14) dl-5-Fluorotryptophan, nonmetabolizable and devoid of any inducing activity, resulted in a concentration-dependent inhibition of the l-tryptophan-mediated induction of tryptophan oxygenase; kynurenine formamidase induction, however, was not influenced by the presence of dl-5-fluorotryptophan.
(15) A cell fractionation procedure is described which allowed, by use of MOPC 21 (P3K) mouse plasmocytoma cells in culture, the separation of the cytoplasmic free and membrane-bound ribosomes in fractions devoid of mutual cross-contamination, and in which the polyribosomal structure was entirely preserved.
(16) In contrast, (+)-naloxone was devoid of any activity.
(17) Furthermore, the 52-base central region that is devoid of repair synthesis contains the lowest frequency cutting sites for DNase I in vitro, as well as the only "internal" locations where two (rather than one) histones interact with a 10-base segment of each DNA strand.
(18) Fine immunohistological analyses established that one transgenic line is essentially devoid of E complex in the thymic cortex, another displays almost no E in the thymic medulla or on peripheral macrophages, and two lines display no E on greater than 98% of B cells.
(19) Furthermore, an antiserum prepared in strain 13 animals against the lymphoid cells of a GA(+)2(-) outbred animal was devoid of inhibitory activity on the GA response of cells from a (2 x 13)F(1), while an antiserum prepared in strain 13 animals against the lymphoid cells of a GA(+)2(+) outbred animal was capable of specifically inhibiting the response to GA.
(20) Our studies on human amniotic membranes show that Mg acts as a competitive antagonist on 2 or 3 weak carcinogens, Pb and Cd, but not on Co. Mg is a non-competitive antagonist of Ni and is devoid of action on As, both of which are powerful carcinogens.