(n.) The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
(n.) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster.
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.
Exorcism
Definition:
(n.) The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
(n.) Conjuration for raising spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
(2) (Father Karras is possessed and sacrifices himself; 23.66%) • "I cast you out" (the initial exorcism attempt by Father Karras and Father Merrin; 18.33%)
(3) The actual procedure in a similar case of exorcism by a psychiatrist is reported, together with details of the outcome and a discussion of theoretical, applied, and ethical aspects of the case.
(4) Deliverances or exorcisms can often involve physical violence.
(5) Each age and culture can be found to have devised its own appropriate treatment for depression; to remove the "biochemical" cause of the disease process by means of prayer, exorcism or fire, or to do away with the evil spirit.
(6) People with experience of misfortune and calamities had a higher ratio than those without such experience only in "visits to fortunetellers and exorcism rites."
(7) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
(8) Tamazai is locally-described as "an illness of the heart and soul, not curable by Koranic verses," but by exorcism of spirits.
(9) Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
(10) As his mother underwent a violent exorcism on stage, the boy told the preacher he hoped selling his toys and donating the proceeds to the church would stop his parents fighting at home.
(11) Lewis Hamilton indulged in some high-speed exorcism when he won pole for the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in nine attempts and beat his rival and team-mate Nico Rosberg to lay the ghost of last year’s momentous happenings at Formula One’s most celebrated setting.
(12) Why, just a month ago as part of her election campaign, did she visit the notoriously homophobic Jesus House , a fundamentalist church that equates homosexuality with bestiality and has supported exorcisms to rid people of same-sex attraction?
(13) The din that greeted the final whistle served as an exorcism.
(14) Manifestations of such supposed possessions have always been considered malevolent and treated by exorcism.
(15) A case of exorcism as apparently successful treatment of transsexualism has previously been reported.
(16) 'The exorcism was over in 15 minutes but nothing changed' - LGBT life in Nigeria Read more But for Olumide Makanjuola, executive director of The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERS), it is social acceptance that is a bigger issue than legal protection for the LGBT community.
(17) For Atlético, this was not just a victory, it was an exorcism.
(18) Perhaps David Cameron’s unexpected success on 7 May will allow an exorcism of sorts, but her shade still lingers.
(19) "It seems The Shining's extended periods of tension and soundtrack kept viewers' hearts racing throughout, but simply couldn't match the massive terror induced by Freddy Krueger's multiple gruesome murders or The Exorcist's explicit exorcism."
(20) The answer to demons is not some spooky exorcism,” Blackwood says.