forced removal

collocation in English

meaningsofforcedandremoval

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forced
adjective
uk
/fɔːst/us
/fɔːrst/
done against ...
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removal
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈmuː.vəl/us
/rɪˈmuː.vəl/
the act of taking something or someone away from somewhere ...
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(Definition offorcedandremovalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first stage of the scheme involved theforcedremovalof provincial students within the age range for military conscription (twenty to twenty-five years) to their hometowns.
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This situation has legitimated the appropriation of land, theforcedremovalof populations, and the destruction of livelihoods by the state, its agents, and their corporate allies.
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A reform programme has been put in place covering land restitution for victims offorcedremoval, land redistribution for landless people and tenure reform.
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The immigration officials agreed to defer hisforcedremovalfrom the country.
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It seeks to deal with their actual expenses in removal andforcedremoval.
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Land dispossession, poor wages, the migrant labour system and theforcedremovalof surplus labour to the homelands have exacerbated poverty.
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Densho continues to interview survivors of the camps and others who can describe how theforcedremovaland detention affected people's lives.
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The police changed their initial strategy offorcedremovalwith one of waiting for the squatters to get thirsty and hungry and come down.
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Using passive resistance over three days the squatters were able to hold off the police's efforts atforcedremoval.
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The most direct would be in theforcedremovalof their children to boarding schools from the late 19th century into the 20th century.
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Improvements to hygiene were also imposed upon the inhabitants with theforcedremovalof muck heaps from the houses and the banning of swine.
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Smaller villages were deemed irrational and listed for reduction of services orforcedremovalof the population and physical destruction.
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As such, theirforcedremovaland the demolition of their homes has resulted in widespread opposition and generated controversy.
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Each race was allotted its own area, which was used in later years as a basis offorcedremoval.
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Theforcedremovalof protesters, and sometimes the use of violence against them, often arouses sympathy from the public, increasing the chances of the demonstrators reaching their audience.
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Nonetheless, this social prophylaxis resulted in theforcedremovalof thousands of working class residents to the city's periphery where they have encountered significant economic hardship.
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Elizabeth's mother had been unable to conceive normally because complications during earlier unsuccessful pregnancies hadforcedremovalof her fallopian tubes.
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