How To Use Despoliation In A Sentence
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In the earlier films humans had been punished for their ambition, but in this later phase of worst-case dramas the planet had a more solid motivation for hitting back: our despoliation of the planet.
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And one horror echoes down the centuries: the despoliation of a green and pleasant land.
Times, Sunday Times
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That way leads to technological despoliation, as we already know.
Books, Ebooks and the Environment « Tales from the Reading Room
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He bemoans the 'tsunami' of 1920s semis and, especially, the despoliation wreaked by the car.
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Fixed lines contribute to the despoliation of our mountains.
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It lists noise pollution, environmental despoliation, training accidents that damage property and a stunting of urban and industrial development as reasons to object to their presence.
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Because of our sins, our desecration and despoliation, we witness in our own times the destruction of a universe.
Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: For Our Sins, We Were Exiled From The Land
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Edinburgh and Aberdeen had less of a problem and so less despoliation took place, but Dundee and smaller towns, such as Falkirk and other burghs in the central industrial belt, were badly hit by this municipal vandalism.
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So I propose that the Scottish Green party makes itself useful for a change and begins a campaign to stop the tartan despoliation of other people's places and stick to despoiling their own.
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Outpost, Tue to 21 AugSSWorking from his native Benin, Romuald Hazoumè has used the ubiquitous jerry can as his trademark emblem for capitalism, consumerism and ecological despoliation.
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He balances his outrage with the sad reflection that there's nothing new under the sun; that exploitation and despoliation are as old as humanity itself.
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This asserts that the despoliation of the planet has resulted from mankind's illegitimate assertion of superiority over the natural world.
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But when the late Saro-Wiwa changed his focus to the despoliation of the delta, suddenly it became the cause du jour of the environmental movement and international journalists.
Nigeria at 50
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The despoliation of the Galician coastline raises fundamental issues which must be urgently addressed.
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By the time Katherine R. Tsiang visited the temple caves of Xiangtangshan in 1990, the sixth-century complex bore witness to both the Northern Qi's glorious sculpture and its irrevocable despoliation by looters and traders.
Gaining Enlightenment Through Technology
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See that brutality, that infantilisation, that despoliation and desecration, that endless warfare, that emotional nihilism, that bottomless corruption — that's us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even today, some so-called Christians give their stamp of approval on cuts in crucial government programs that serve poor families, or the despoliation of the land by oil companies in the name of economic growth.
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This is an old dialectic—purity vs. despoliation, virtue vs. smut—but for families with teenagers, it is also everlastingly new.
Darkness Too Visible
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The ever-rising levels of pollution are pressuring her into some type of response that can hopefully demonstrate to these shameless ones that further unabated despoliation is unacceptable.
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To lose these recordings would be an act of cultural despoliation.
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