What is "evict"

Usage examples of "evict".

The latter privilege was deemed to have been abridged by city officials who acted in pursuance of a void ordinance which authorized a director of safety to refuse permits for parades or assemblies on streets or parks whenever he believed riots could thereby be avoided and who forcibly evicted from their city union organizers who sought to use the streets and parks for the aforementioned purposes.

Master Croke ordered her to her seat but then started to look for the little cat himself to be sure he had evicted it.

For if it were attempted to evict the Innisturk people the evictors would be accused of hurling an entire population into the sea.

Thus they were unemployed, and had to be evicted, and new favelas replaced the old ones, sprouting up like mushrooms.

Severin could, and would, have her forcibly evicted from his premises kept Pippin from conducting herself like a shrewish fishwife and throwing something, preferably large and very heavy, at him.

And the constables in the severall townes are required to make presentment to each particular courte, of such as they doe understand, and can evict to bee transgressors of this order.

As Witness Eight in the first week, Coucy testified from personal knowledge, telling how, when Pierre went to take possession of the Bishopric of Metz, he had required the men-at-arms of his brother, Count Waleran de Pol, to evict the Urbanist clerics who held the episcopal property.

These were tactics the Army had planned to use against Warsaw Pact tanks if a shooting war had erupted during the Cold War, and they seemed optimal for the sort of desert war the United States had waged when it evicted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

Troopers evicted the members of a commune in Texas, beating the boys with slapjacks, grabbing handcuffed girls by the pussy, smacking little kids around, and killing the stock, all of which Prairie, breathing deliberately, made herself watch.

A two-day siege of the County-City Building, occupied by an army of about 5,000 unemployed, was ended early tonight, deputy sheriffs and police evicting the demonstrators after nearly two hours of efforts.

He was not allowed to write in Bonita Vista, and there was a good likelihood he would soon be evicted from his little teapot museum office.

That number had been reduced by about a third after the Artifact War, when Brighter Suns was created in the wake of the collapse of the Outward Policorps, and the population was evicted from half the habitat while the Powers were brought in behind a wall of security and biologic shields.

He had a meeting with the local village elders, the fono, and pointed out that evicting them, while a defensible act, had its negative side.

It was a textbook case of chronic osteomyelitis, with a discharging sinus and probably a large chunk of dead bone inside, trapped within a new layer of living bone that was desperately trying to evict the dead matter.

Trixie was evicted, the cups were laid aside, Mister Snaith reversed his cloak and straightened his toupee.