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How to use the word deprive in a Sentence?

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PAST IS PROLOGUE: This book was written observing the premise that the seeds of Holocaust denial take root and prosper with misinformation. Clarity and transparency are imperative, as they leave no room for denial theories that would deprive the victims justice, or rob the living of a future. Generations of historians have enthusiastically gone about their craft knowing full well that 'he who owns the past, owns the future'. Improperly documented history, or more precisely, fraudulent versions of history not only deprive the victims of pasts injustices due recognition of their suffering, but also rob the living of a fair chance at a future free from the dangers of repeating past injustices.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

The main targets were energy facilities to deprive Ukrainians of power and warmth, the majority of missiles and drones were intercepted by our defenders. Unfortunately there were hits at substations. Nevertheless the situation in the power grid remains under control. Power engineers are doing everything to provide power supply.

Denys Shmyhal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election.

Susan Tyler Witten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If( Independents) were to win their seats, not only does it make the job for Liberal Party harder to maintain government, but Liberal Party will also deprive them of potential leadership options in the future, so it's a big stakes issue for the coalition.

Zareh Ghazarian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's no question that the Buffalo shooting video drives home both the stakes of the HB 20 dispute and what's wrong with HB 20 itself, if any Texas-based account reposted or rebroadcast the Twitch stream, taking that down would, on my reading, clearly violate HB 20. When you deprive social media platforms of the ability to moderate content, you are all but guaranteeing that they will be awash in violent, inappropriate, and otherwise objectionable posts.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our Armed Forces are doing everything to deprive the enemy of the wish to continue the war against Ukraine, it's the most powerful fighting against Russia in decades.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the legislature goes down that route I think that would be very beneficial, it would strike a good balance between penalizing the politicians who flouted the law but also not doing that in a way that’s ham handed and may deprive some innocent school kid of the ability to participate in a certain program.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Life is short, do not deprive yourself of the people or things that help you create real moments of happiness.

Tristain Abu Shury

added by choozenboy
2 years ago

We didn't have a vaccine to give them, but I would hate to deprive children of their lives because we don't decide to vaccinate them, even against the relatively low-risk thing.

Peter Marks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The executive order itself does not do anything that carries legal consequences, the( executive order) is actually pretty toothless in that all of the sections of law he invokes do not deprive the Department of Health of its power as the ultimate decision maker regarding measures necessary to inhibit the spread of communicable diseases as outlined in Section 1003.22( 3) of Florida Statutes.

Law School professor Richard Briffault

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're not going to deprive these executives their second or third home, travel privately by jet, it's not going to affect their standard of living at all. Not a little tiny bit. But I can affect the standard of living that people I grew up with.

Biden White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will not accept that some violence-seeking individuals want to deprive us of May Day as a day of peaceful demonstration, we do not give way to violence.

Andreas Geisel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You don't want to deprive them to get the younger ones, because they're the ones that are going to wind up in the hospital and have a higher rate of death, what we don't want to do is to neglect them.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But if they were, I would want them playing, and if they bring something back to the house, as much as I wouldn't want that, I would rather take that risk than deprive them of the opportunity to do things like this.

Ron Desantis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

George Mason

added by Normando
3 years ago

The point is not to be as austere as possible and deprive yourself of all joy, the point is to get to a right balance.

Dan Egan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental and spiritual

John Stuart Mill

added by Normando
4 years ago

Still maintaining the same plan: Cambodia by land, hun Sen cannot deprive us & the people the right to return. Open the border.

Mu Sochua

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

We're not going to vote with Boris Johnson today to deprive ourselves of the opportunity to complete the business that we've just seized control of the house to do.

Keir Starmer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

By closing the border like this, they deprive a lot of people of their earnings today. Most of the women here cross into Rwanda to find food for us in Goma.

Lucien Kalusha

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

By putting people like Derek Jason Bartoli out of business, we are able to deprive the robocallers of the important tools of their trade.

Andrew Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These cases are part of a coordinated campaign to deprive the public of information about our government, and they lay the groundwork to go after more mainstream media sources, outlets and publishers.

Jesselyn Radack

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
4 years ago

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    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    A abduct
    B emanate
    C affront
    D embellish