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How to use the word deprive in a Sentence? Page #2

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As this successful prosecution clearly demonstrates, we simply will not tolerate acts of violence and hate calculated to deprive people of their civil rights.

United States

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The vote will not deprive him of management rights.

Korean Air

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This shocking attack from the state against our clients exercise of religious convictions is deeply disturbing, the state seeks to punish Artis based on non-existent directives, and deprive her of a personal ministry to the veterans who have benefited from her religious services for years. Artis isnt fighting just for herself, but for the Gospel and for the residents who are unable to fight for themselves against the states attempted intimidation.

Brad Dacus

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is a unique case that has a very powerful twist. You have the unique dimension that the defendants in this case actually asked that their product be placed directly alongside the Jack Daniels product. They’re going to be using that evidence to try and drive home the point that the defendants knew exactly what they were doing in order to try and deprive these sales from the folks at Jack Daniels.

Seth Berenzweig

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What Bridgegate did was deprive me of the benefit of the doubt – that’s all. That’s a big thing. But that’s what it did.

New Jersey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The vast loss of potential caused by the crisis in education threatens to deprive Syria of the skills it will need to rebuild a war-torn society.

Sarah Brown

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is obvious that this statement aims to stop the process of negotiations and to deprive the High Negotiating Council of any hope to continue the talks, what else are we going to discuss if we are not going to discuss Assad's fate?

Riad Nassan Agha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The deliberate starvation of people is unequivocally forbidden as a weapon of warfare. By extension, so are sieges, which deprive civilians of essential goods such as food. And yet over 450,000 people are currently trapped in besieged towns and villages in Syria -- and have been, in some cases, for years, food, medicine and other desperately-needed humanitarian aid is repeatedly obstructed. Thousands of people may have starved to death.

Zeid Ra'Ad Al Hussein

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Expanding the shrine will deprive thousands of Samarra residents of the right to use their properties.

Kamil Abbas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we can somehow increase the external noise that these locusts are experiencing then we might be able to break up the swarm, isolate the individuals, and deprive them of the benefits of being in a swarm.

Christian Yates

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Developed and developing countries can move ahead by sharing about technology, and it doesn't mean this will deprive industry in the developed world of their share of profits.

Ajai Malhotra

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You need a pretty convincing argument to deprive somebody of their place on the ballot.

Brad Cook

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and I don't want to deprive people unnecessarily of that. There needs to be better due process.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We cannot let those who seek to disrupt our way of life succeed, we must increase our efforts at home and abroad to improve our defenses, destroy terrorist networks and deprive them of the space from which to operate.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Cutting off all gas transit through Ukraine would deprive it of $2.2 billion in annual revenue.

Energy Diplomacy Robin Dunnigan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Through these investigations we have uncovered serious and unprecedented actions taken by the most senior IRS official in charge of the non-profit unit, Lois Lerner, to deprive conservative organizations of their constitutional rights, despite the DOJ closing its investigation, the Ways and Means Committee will continue to find answers and hold the IRS accountable for its actions.

Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Malkohi camp in its present state is not conducive for that due to uncontrolled visits by relations and members of the public which deprive the rescued women the needed concentration to overcome their trauma induced by their captivity in the hands of Boko Haram?.

Mohammed Kanar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If they could deprive us of the air we breathe, they would do it.

Walid Abu Hassouna

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Young children need to nap for optimal performance, you don't want to sleep deprive them to see if they can sleep deeper at night, you want them to sleep the best way.

Richard Ferber

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Anybody that has a daughter or granddaughter knows how precious that person can be, ... And anybody who is interested in the future of (their) country or city that if they deprive half of their own citizens of an equal right to an education or an honest job, then their whole community is going to suffer.

Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

Antonin Artaud

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.

Burke

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I see that the house lights are still on. Let us not deprive the neighbours any longer of the chance to deplore how drunk I am."

Paul. F. Meekin

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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