(v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
(v. t.) To evince; to prove.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(3) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(4) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
(5) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
(6) But it isn’t.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children risk eviction from Calais refugee camp.
(7) Occupy activists have lost their case at the court of appeal to halt their eviction from an abandoned London building that previously housed the multinational banking giant, UBS.
(8) They raised their issues with the council in 2012 and now the landlord is trying to get them evicted.
(9) Four years earlier, Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals had evicted the Conservatives (referred to most often then as Unionists) by what seemed a decisive margin.
(10) Oliver's departure followed the exit of Kenneth Tong last Thursday, which forced Channel 4 to abandon the planned eviction vote on Friday and offer a refund to viewers who had already voted.
(11) Peter Kruse, a spokesman for Vestas , suggested the eviction would not take place today.
(12) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(13) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(14) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
(15) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
(16) At least two successive Kenyan governments have threatened the Sengwer communities and forest squatters with evictions.
(17) Tennis Australia apologises for Bernard Tomic 'Hall of Shame' typo Read more When police arrived they allegedly told him he was being evicted from the hotel and gave him a trespass warning.
(18) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
(19) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
(20) The latter involved the pressure group New Era, named after the estate that six weeks ago was the scene of a famous victory when residents forced a US investor to abandon plans to evict families and triple rents.
Expunge
Definition:
(v. t.) To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.
(v. t.) To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In seeking to escape all interpretive subjectivity, medicine has threatened to expunge its primary subject--the living, experiencing patient.
(2) When you build a wall in this city to expunge, reject, thousands of people on a demographic basis, that’s un-Jewish.” “What is Jewish?” I asked.
(3) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
(4) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
(5) This responsibility rightly involves executing convicted murderers, including abortionists, for their crimes in order to expunge bloodguilt from the land and people.” On Wednesday Butler welcomed the minister’s decision to block the visa and rejected claims Newman had been subjected to false accusations.
(6) I want to assure the people of NSW that, as premier, I intend to overhaul the political culture of NSW so that the wrongdoings that have been uncovered in a series of recent ICAC investigations will never happen again.” Baird said he was a supporter of using public funding to pay for political campaigns, “as a mechanism to expunge the corrosive culture of political donations”.
(7) "We will be doing all we can to get this ludicrous notice expunged and hope common sense eventually prevails."
(8) Statues are removed from their plinths; the names of streets, squares, buildings and banknotes are hastily changed to expunge mentions of discredited leaders and dubious historical heroes.
(9) It was treated as a misdemeanor, and he was about to finish a diversion program which would have expunged all mention of it from his record, but it was deemed enough in the age of Trump to have him picked up and held overnight.
(10) It became so good at enabling the industry's excesses that the industry returned the favour, embroiling the agency in a drugs-and-sex scandal that forced high-level resignations and a re-branding aimed at expunging its tarnished record.
(11) One excerpt editors want to expunge from the latest edition of her 2004 novel refers to the forced abortions and sterilisations undergone by women as a result of China’s one-child policy, which was formally scrapped last month after 35 years.
(12) One raised the fact that "Pygmy" is not actually an ethnic group, but a word used by anthropologists to describe various ethnic groups whose adult males are less than 150cm tall on average , going on to ask whether, given that it "isn't a race but a rather arbitrary size categorisation … we are going to expunge all insulting language [if] it demeans someone?"
(13) The government has also said applications for expungement will be ruled on by the secretary of the Department of Justice, as they are in New South Wales.
(14) While Podemos vows to expunge corruption, the governing PP has sought to downplay its existence.
(15) "It was expunging of the soul in that song: here I am, cut me with a sword, let me bleed, and I'll get back up and we'll move on."
(16) The Earth itself being demonstrably finite and thus – even if all other life is expunged to support humanity – there is an end point.
(17) At the same time that, when it comes to poor people, vacant rooms are deemed an offence to be expunged, they grow unchecked in the most desirable parts of London.
(18) The legislation will allow men to apply for expungement of convictions they received under three previous laws criminalising “sexual intercourse against the order of nature”, “consensual sexual intercourse between males”, and “indecent practices between males”.
(19) Take the collective memory from our museums; remove the bands from our schools and choirs from our communities; lose the empathetic plays and dance from our theatres or the books from our libraries; expunge our festivals, literature and painting, and you're left with a society bereft of a national conversation … about its identity or anything else.
(20) Chinese links were expunged from the "Mandarin", a comic villain played by Ben Kingsley.