How To Use Depredation In A Sentence
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Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
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They make good the depredations of history to give us a Rome that appears both whole and eternally modern.
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The deer had become very numerous by this time in the New Forest, and there were numerous complaints about their depredations.
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Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect.
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He began to wish that his property might be attacked, feeling secure in his alertness, thinking that an over bold "badman" might come suddenly to the end of his depredations here.
Six Feet Four
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As the pasture in which Black Bruin had committed his depredation was a mile from the settler's house and not often visited except to salt the young stock kept in it, the real offender was not discovered, although it was apparent to the farmer that the heifer had been attacked by some wild beast.
Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear
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They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep.
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The task of preserving the timber recently cut and of preventing further depredations _within the disputed territory_ was assigned to the State of Maine after her military force should have been withdrawn from it, and it was to be accomplished by a civil posse, armed or unarmed, which was to continue in the territory and to operate in every part of it where its agency might be required to protect the timber already cut and prevent further depredations, without any limitation whatever or any restrictions except such as might be construed into an attempt to disturb by arms the Province of New Brunswick in her possession of the Madawaska settlement or interrupt the usual communication between the Provinces.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
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Despite protective laws and natural - park status, the depredations continued.
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For a while they remembered their faults and losses; but no sooner were they revived by the hospitable entertainment, than their venom was again inflamed; they stung their benefactor, and neither gardens, nor palaces, nor churches, were safe from their depredations.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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So, despite the great depredations of the slave trade, there was demographic growth.
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These wretches undismayed, unmoved by the terrors of the bombarding ravages around, strove and vied with each other in the committal of every act of the most unlicensed ferocity and depredation, breaking open houses, assaulting the inmates, murdering such as shewed resistance, denuding the more submissive of their clothing, abusing women — particularly in the Jewish quarter — to all which atrocities the Europeans were likewise exposed.
Travels in Morocco
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Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
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The otter is supposed to have been in the district for some time, for depredations that are now being laid to his charge have been going on for some considerable period.
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The gangs are reported to have used racial taunts during their depredations.
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There was a man at Renfrew, where I came from, who had a kaleyard, and he was very much bothered with the depredations of a hootie craw-the corn crow-and. he got hold of a rat gin and put it out in his kale yard and covered it over and put some seed on top of it, and got his walking stick, and got behind the door to watch events.
Imperial Plans in Education
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
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They loot and impose depredations on the countries where they operate.
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From this, you immediately see where the Beeb is coming from: the munificent, caring EU has delivered unto us with wonderful law which protects us – and the sacred environment – from the depredations of irresponsible and polluting car owners.
Love is blind
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The worst depredations upon the environment, give or take a few, have all been inflicted in the last twenty-five years -- the duration in which markets have gotten freer in the U.S., and the population explosion globally has been regarded a surmountable triviality.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The wolves have come back in numbers better than anticipated, and ranchers have lobbied for a return of sport hunting, to keep the wolf population numbers down and minimize "depredation"-that's cow-country jargon for "killing cattle.
Boing Boing
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Property rather than the people themselves were the victims of his depredations but his attacks were aimed just as much at the civil will as the morale of Confederate soldiers.
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The Traditions fight to preserve magic against the Technocracy, and to defend against the depredations of Marauders and Nephandi.
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For years, the gardens have been suffering from the depredations of the little pests.
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the depredations of age and disease
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This absurd belief would not even deserve to be called quixotic if it had not inspired masterpieces of art and music and architecture as well as the most appalling atrocities and depredations.
Christopher Hitchens: Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?
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Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
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They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep.
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Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect.
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So, despite the great depredations of the slave trade, there was demographic growth.
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It will have to be acknowledged that as long as the black rats were in power they were as much shunned by all other living creatures as the gray rats are in our day – and for just cause; they had thrown themselves upon poor, fettered prisoners, and tortured them; they had ravished the dead; they had stolen the last turnip from the cellars of the poor; bitten off the feet of sleeping geese; stolen eggs and chicks from the hens; and had committed a thousand depredations.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o’ the
Rob Roy
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The treaty evolved to preserve the fragile balance of ownership and nonownership and to protectTerra Incognita from the depredations of exploitation and warfare.
Terra Incognita
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His last, wretched, years were marred by drunkenness and the depredations of the bailiffs, who carried off his household furniture.
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Also at risk, as much from further delays as from the operations themselves, is the supply of humanitarian aid to the refugees who are already suffering from the depredations of the attacks.
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Even the "depredation" of private manuscript collections in the
Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40
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Far be it from me to advocate eating Hostess cupcakes: they symbolize the industrial depredation of anything homemade, the triumph of Big Baking Brother (perhaps in his death throes: Interstate Bakeries, the company that makes them, Twinkies, and Wonder Bread, has been in bankruptcy since 2004).
Not So Guilty Pleasure
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In the nineteenth century there was a movement, of which Steiner was a principal exponent, to keep geometry pure and ward off the depredations of algebra.
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The lignivorous insects that attack living trees almost uniformly confine their ravages to trees already unsound or diseased in growth from the depredations of leaf-eaters, such as caterpillars and the like, or from other causes.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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The duty of the former was to lead out the flocks daily at dawn, to follow and tend them while depasturing, and protect them from the depredations of the blacks, or the molestations of the native dogs; for which purpose in very remote districts, such as this, they are provided with guns.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
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Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
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Of course, his method of limiting the depredations of crime upon society differed dramatically from ours.
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We could end up, like the European countries, divided into several warring "confederacies," each too weak to defend itself against the depredations of the European powers.
City Journal
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I have a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly, I would like to see some serious depredation on the wolves - to get them back down to the original numbers FWS promised to maintain - not ten times more than that.
Wolfing One Down...
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We of the civilized world are not apt to attach much credit to the latter species of exploits; but horse-stealing is well-known as an avenue to distinction on the prairies, and the other kind of depredation is esteemed equally meritorious.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Then the victims of our depredations worldwide need to believe and participate in the making of a better world for them and us.
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Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
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Livestock can be insured against leopard depredations, so losses can be compensated.
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These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.).
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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-- Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners, while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue. '
Waverley — Complete
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The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace.
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M'Callum's, in which there was no bed-covering but the skins of wild beasts; during the contest the major was killed; but after it was over, the colonel retired to Jamaica, with much wealth, acquired by depredation.
A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
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Whatever the depredations of the Bush kakistocracy, we are quite a ways (though not as far as we used to be) from a fascist dictatorship.
Michelle Goldberg: The F-Word
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The trouble began in the spring of 1846, when some student depredations were traced to a small log house situated in the depths of what was then known as the Black Forest, the deep wood which extended far east of the Campus.
The University of Michigan
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The deeper problems in the art market have to do with the depredations of the auction houses.
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That, we respectfully submit, relates directly to a depredation upon the exchequer of the Commonwealth.
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However, the Department of Fish and Game does issue what are known as depredation permits which allows the killing of these animals under certain conditions, usually when they pose a danger to livestock or people.
Cheri Shankar: Mountan Lion Cub Poses Imminent Danger?
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The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job.
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Forget the background of the two, forget their previous depredations and concentrate only on the trial and its end result.
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These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.).
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless;
Rob Roy
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Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
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Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters.
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I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
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Hayek may have underestimated the power of the democratic impulse to restrain the more extreme forms of government depredation, but Hayek never put any sort of time frame on his predictions.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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We find a parallel in the old days in Shanghai, before the depredations of the American hetairai had aroused the hostility of the American judge, in 1907-8.
Satyricon
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The east wing had crumbled, taken on the appearance of a Victorian folly, its crenellations the result of depredations of rain and wind.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Into this special domain went winter coats and wool items to be protected against the depredations of moths, silver fish, and their ilk.
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There is an old theory which says that populations which are the most under-privileged and suffer most from the depredations of poverty are most likely to see war against an external enemy as an antidote and a release.
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Obviously no species could withstand such depredations for long, although the present losses of habitat may be considered even more serious.
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What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations?
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At this period, the tories on Lynch's creek, in the neighbourhood of M'Callum's ferry, had already begun their murders and depredations.
A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
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Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer.
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
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This neatly capsulizes the administration's ongoing depredations in Colombia, all under the shady banner of the war on drugs.
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In South India, roving bands of dacoits, carrying out their traditional depredations on the weak and unprotected, had been a part of the rural landscape for centuries.
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The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies.
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Depredations upon the coffle by the inhabitants — Continued attacks from banditti as far as the Ba Woolima river — Difficulties in passing it — temporary bridge made by the natives. —
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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Will they cease their depredations against the environment when it is so irreversibly compromised that even their own children begin to sicken and die?
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I am hearing bits and pieces blaming the increasing bear population for the decrease in deer via fawn depredation but I'm not necessarily convinced.
Success rate in WV in 2009