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i vikt

  • v  expel or eject without recourse to legal process
    The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m.
  • v  expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
    The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months

  • The city said no, and intends to evict.
  • Azzawi hasn't yet had to forcibly evict anyone in the area under his control, even as some 2,760 families have returned in the past few months.
  • Not all the judges whose writs he was refusing to execute shared his sense of outrage, and some of the banks and others seeking to evict the occupants of the foreclosed properties .
News & Articles

  • Homeless advocates make last stand to save Nickelsville
    City councilmembers still want to evict everyone from Nickelsville, but the Housing and Human Services Committee voted to move forward on one or two city-owned sites that would be suitable for temporary encampments.
    June 13, 2013 - KOMO Seattle
  • SF Police Remove Tree-Sitting Protesters From Hayes Valley Property
    Seven people were arrested and one was injured early Thursday morning in San Francisco when police used force to evict dozens of tree-sitting protesters occupying a small park in Hayes Valley.
    June 13, 2013 - CBS San Francisco
  • GUEST VIEW: Unrestricted journalism key in a fair society
    The state’s Republican-led budget committee may have done no greater favor for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism than voting to evict it from two tiny offices in UW-Madison’s V…
    June 13, 2013 - Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life
Quotes

  • Corazon Aquino in Taipei Times
    Our guiding light should not be an obsession to evict the president,Aquino said in a speech to the influential Makati Business Club.
  • Ehud Barak in Jerusalem Post
    However, the top story on its Web site over the weekend, headlined "Upholding court order, Israeli troops evict squatters," quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak as saying "what was tested today was the ability of the state to enforce its laws...
  • Jack Thompson in DailyTech
    I am delighted to work with Electronic Arts to evict the Zelnick Trojan Horse from within Take-Two's corporate walls,wrote Thompson. "In doing so, I can get the new Take-Two into the clear as to the trouble I and others can send its way."

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