despoliation

1 Here, in this polluted and overfished ocean, is our despoliation of the natural world in microcosm.

2 Unaltered climate change, the continuing distribution of toxic chemicals, and despoliation of our oceans and forests will destroy our personal health and whatever semblance of social organization we're hanging on to.

3 Garth’s masterful book ends with a reminder that a profound concern for the environment and its despoliation imbues Tolkien’s work.

4 From how many a lustrous youth—tarrying too long by the fetid margins of sense—has the glory winged away, never to return to a creature fallen into hairy despoliation.

5 Daemon returned as a conqueror with a new haircut, seeming redeemed until he took Rhaenyra on her despoliation tour of the dirty old town.

6 When this despoliation was discovered, the rulers of the Empire removed Seti's mummy and the mummies of other kings to a tomb near the Temple of Der-el-bahri which could be more closely guarded.

7 Related Christopher Ciccone watched from the Radio City green room, thinking of his father and grandmother, who, like millions of other TV viewers, would see the show at home and be stunned by what appeared to be the on-air despoliation of a bride — by herself.

8 Possibly it was her desire to dispose of other volumes; perhaps it was to protest against further despoliation; at all events he would be guarded in his conversation until her object was disclosed.

9 With very unbecoming haste, Congress hurried to pass laws to legalize their despoliation of the conquered Californians, forgetting the nation's pledge to protect us.

10 Bezos was at pains to stress the importance of preserving the natural integrity of Earth, and Cox has consistently called for action on the climate crisis and environmental despoliation.

11 Maybe the whole paradigm of progress and growth is bent in the first place: The good old days of growth and expansion were also the awful old days of colonization, slavery, environmental despoliation and oppression.

12 Her new novel, “Barkskins,” is a clamorous epic of environmental despoliation.

13 But even the departure of a £4m-a-year boss would mark only a partial response to the scale of this catastrophe, which has cost lives and livelihoods, and caused huge environmental despoliation.

14 Eco-fascists have lamented the despoliation of nature, which they associate with modernity and an industrial society which they feel has diminished the connections between race and territory.

15 During the days of the war under Buzurg Khan, the only means of obtaining the necessary revenue was by despoliation and enforced levies on the occupied portion of the territory.

16 Of course, telling your friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members what you have learned about the potential despoliation of natural treasures, many in our own backyard, is also a big help.

17 The ensanguined bones, with some fragments of the cartilage still adhering to them, showed that the despoliation had been recent.

18 Construction, clear-cutting, despoliation, the discovery that even ugliness, when frankly described, can be beautiful: His photographs are evidence of what was there and what has gone wrong.

19 The book’s scope is comprehensive, documenting the grandeur and the despoliation of the region’s geography and the lives and spaces of its poorest—and richest—residents.

20 Environmentalists, concerned about the despoliation of nature, have been lobbying for the concrete to be removed and the river rewilded, with new marshes and wetlands to green the city and mitigate flooding.

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