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Briefly, dispossession affected only pastoralists that practiced transhumance.
This arose from government policy position that betterment dispossession did not fulfil the criteria of the Restitution of Land rights Act.
Facing a bleak future of dispossession and impoverishment, they had appealed to the Supreme Court in a final desperate throw of the dice.
He calls attention to the way in which racism against blacks is intertwined with economic dispossession.
The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms.
Together, they have survived displacement, prejudice, and dispossession, but at a cost to their humanity.
Faulkner's novels dealing with race and slavery return again and again to the concerns and dispossession of white male characters.
There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords.
Seven of his relatives were threatened with or suffered dispossession, and he organized purchases for some of the latter.
So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people.
The background to this whole debate is the history of colonial and apartheid era land dispossession.
So, what kind of redress might work best for this specific expression of Sunni marginalization and dispossession?
Members of the middle or lower classes are acutely aware of the mechanisms of dispossession and exploitation.
The approach to colonization varied significantly from one region to the next, some areas experiencing a harsher kind of dispossession than others.
This dispossession was ratified by the treaty of Meaux-Paris in 1229 and the city became a royal jurisdiction of a seneschal.
Just as European depictions of Indigenous people, flora and fauna gained accuracy as contact, dispossession and white settlement expanded.
Later circumstances may be relevant to title, for instance in cases of dispossession of traditional lands occurring after sovereignty.
The dispossession of land and illness and death from introduced diseases disrupted traditional lifestyles and practices.
Since indigenous peoples generally have faced cultural repression and dispossession, there is a strong argument for special treatment.
Other related rights, such as protection against the dispossession of such resources, are also recognized.
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And he never felt so to the full his dispossession as in thinking of Robert.
Indeed, a sacramental vision of dispossession, of egolessness, perfuses Cage's work from first to last.
He said the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 demonstrated the victory of international law against the illegality of aggression and dispossession.
There are lots of denials about the land dispossession of the African people in South Africa.
In what other genocide were the victims forced to finance and organize their own dispossession, deportation, and eventual extermination?
There was no legal provision for this brutal dispossession of the existing shareholders until it was voted into law by the Cyprus parliament.
According to Ngwenya, the claim was not targeted at uprooting people or causing dispossession.
For one thing, it would involve the dispossession of that year's baby.
The Spaniards had won a footing already too secure for dispossession.
How dim was her own love-dream beside this torment of dispossession.
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