(v. t.) To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
(2) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(3) 7.48pm BST 2 min: Blaszczykowski runs towards the Bayern box for the first time but Ribéry tracks him all the way and eventually dispossesses him some 20 yards out.
(4) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
(5) Podolski dispossesses Lahm in the box, with the aid of a subtle shove.
(6) She read aloud the act preamble , acknowledging the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders as the inhabitants of Australia before European settlement and the dispossession, without compensation, of their lands.
(7) Man Utd 1-0 Barcelona (Scholes 14) Cristiano Ronaldo took on and beat Yaya Toure only to be dispossessed by Gianluca Zambrotta on the edge of the Barcelona penalty area.
(8) And yet London sometimes feels absolutely ready for an angry new movement that can take advantage of the disaffection and dispossession growing inside a city where property has become an asset class for international speculation, with even the pokiest flat well beyond the means of anyone earning the average wage.
(9) Whatever is finally agreed won't end Israel's occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land or halt its war of dispossession against the Palestinian people.
(10) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(11) Dispossession bequeathed land the size of Cyprus to Bradshaw Station, first for cattle, and now as the Bradshaw Field Training Area, one of the largest weapons training grounds in the world.
(12) In Labour's working-class heartlands there is a powerful feeling of being dispossessed.
(13) Chapter 39 laid down that “No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or diseised [dispossessed], or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go against him, nor will we send against him, save by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.” In chapter 40 the king declared that “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay, right or justice.” In these ways, the Charter asserted a fundamental principle – the rule of law.
(14) 25 min: Messi attempts another ferrety run into the the Inter penalty area with the ball at his feet, but is dispossessed by the combined efforts of Walter Samuel and Maicon.
(15) 10.31pm BST 62 mins Donovan dispossessed as he tries to force his way through on the left, but Diskerud is alert to the turnover and that's a really smart interception to stall the Panama counter.
(16) The beautiful moment in 2007 when our prime minister officially said "sorry" for generations of dispossession and destruction of indigenous Australians and their culture was a time when we knew who we were, and we were proud of it.
(17) From this West Ham broke, but Sofiane Feghouli needed too much time and was dispossessed.
(18) And yet the reason the judges gave the prize to Catton, rather than to either of the two other serious contenders – Jim Crace's parable of land and dispossession, or Colm Tóibín's spare, shocking portrait of the Virgin Mary – must be for its investigation into what a novel is, and can be.
(19) In the time it took to write this blog I received news of families in Uganda displaced by an oil treatment plant, a contractor sought in Kenya for alleged negligence in road safety, farmers dispossessed of land for a mine in Myanmar, and a threat to indigenous people in Nicaragua from another mega-project.
(20) Two minutes after Ibe’s goal, Roberto Firmino ran clear after dispossessing Glenn Whelan only to be let down by a piece of poor control.
Ejector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
(n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the best car – the Aston Martin DB5 with smokescreen, oil slick, front-wing machine guns and passenger ejector seat, all of which Bond employs against carfuls of henchmen in pursuit … to no avail, because he ends up totalling it and getting captured anyway.
(2) Finally, noise control techniques in the use and installation of nozzles and ejectors are reviewed.
(3) The death of Cunningham has bewildered senior RAF officers who say the ejector seat in a Hawk is almost impossible to activate accidentally, requiring considerable pressure from the pilot.
(4) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.
(5) The accuracy of five ejector flowmeters was assessed using three different gases and four flow-rates.
(6) The gas is evacuated from the Hafnia A circuit via an ejector flowmeter.
(7) (2) Because patients may have the need to swallow during a four-minute topical application procedure, the use of a saliva ejector during the procedure is recommended.
(8) The police refused to say what recommendations they had made, but at an early inquest hearing, the officer leading the inquiry, Detective Superintendent Shaun West, confirmed he was looking specifically at why the cockpit ejector seat activated and why the parachute mechanism did not work.
(9) An efficiency rating system is presented to aid in the selection of hand held air guns, nozzles, and ejectors.
(10) This modification involves forming a vacuum chamber at the posterior extent of the custom tray to which a saliva ejector tip is embedded.
(11) In a full statement, the CPS said it had considered charges against three individuals as well as the Ministry of Defence and the defence company Martin Baker Ltd, which makes ejector seats.
(12) Prosecutors are considering whether to bring criminal charges over the death of a Red Arrows pilot killed when the ejector seat of his jet fired as the plane sat on the tarmac at an RAF base.
(13) A simple time-cycled device uses an oscillating, fluidic, bistable element to control the high-pressure oxygen, supply to the ejector of a ventilating bronchoscope.
(14) When the saliva ejector is connected to the low-volume evacuation hose, the chamber will trap any excess impression material that might extrude from the posterior border of the loaded tray.
(15) This paper describes an ejector system for AH-drivers based on the Venturi effect, which was designed for this purpose.
(16) The incident bewildered senior RAF officers who say the ejector seat in a Hawk is almost impossible to activate accidentally, requiring considerable pressure from the pilot.
(17) When the ejector-detector assembly was moved to the caudate, dopamine could only be observed following pressure ejection after perfusion of the slice with 10 microM nomifensine.
(18) By means of an ejector attachment to the endotracheal tube a negative intratracheal pressure of approx.
(19) Calibrated gas evacuation is carried out through an ejector flowmeter from the anesthetic circuit or from a closed reservoir, where the gas is collected via a relief valve.
(20) The evidence related to the failure of the parachute to open, rather than to why the ejector seat had fired in the first place.