7 sentences with 'deprived'
Example sentences and phrases with the word deprived and other words derived from it.
• « One specific group of Turks, the Seljuks, had already seized much of the Middle East in the 11th century, and over the next two hundred years deprived the Byzantine Empire of its remaining possessions outside Constantinople and its immediate environs. »
• « Instead, the victors deprived the French of their conquests and imposed a modest indemnity, but did not dismember the country. They did, however, redraw the map of Europe. »
• « As a direct tax, it appeared to be an unconstitutional measure that deprived freeborn British subjects of their liberty, a concept they broadly defined to include various rights and privileges they enjoyed as British subjects, including the right of representation. »
• « Having no representation in the House of Commons, where the tax bills originated, they felt deprived of this inherent right. »
• « The Tallmadge Amendment was narrowly defeated, the balance between free and slave states in the Senate was maintained, and Southerners need not fear that Missouri slaveholders would be deprived of their human property. »
• « Many American miners, often profligate, resented their presence and discriminated against them, believing that the Chinese, who accounted for about 8% of the nearly 300,000 who arrived, deprived them of the opportunity to earn a living. »