To conserve it was to protect it from human despoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference
That way leads to technological despoliation, as we already know. From Wordnik.com. [Books, Ebooks and the Environment « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
We are determining that dynamic trade cannot lead to environmental despoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President In Nafta Bill Signing Ceremony] Reference
People have boycotted to protest apartheid, to protest the despoliation of the environment. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values] Reference
In this sense, there can be no war, no despoliation, no hatred that does not come back upon ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Amster: From Oakland to Afghanistan, Can We All Get Along?] Reference
Normally one would be aghast at the arrival of a band of gypsies bent on despoliation of the countryside. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-23] Reference
We once said in the United Nations; If the philosophy of despoliation ends, the philosophy of war will end. From Wordnik.com. [SIXTH SUMMIT CONFERENCE OF THE NONALINED COUNTRI] Reference
The US is a selfish, individualistic society devoted to commerce, profit, and the despoliation of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Americans Abroad] Reference
It may be the only tool they have at their disposal as the animals seek to survive the despoliation of their habitat. From Wordnik.com. [Nikolas Kozloff: BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee] Reference
He had attended a campus rally in Baltimore of "middle class white radicals" who attacked environmental despoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I now want to know if the London Exhibition succeeded, or not, in displaying the Nazi programme of artistic despoliation. From Wordnik.com. [20th Century German Art Exhibition, London 1938] Reference
Beyond the incalculable costs of the despoliation to the ecology of the region, the damage measurable in dollars is immense. From Wordnik.com. [David Morse: BP Profits From Gulf Spill] Reference
Moorcroft said that to allow the commercial despoliation of the area by any commercial company, let alone a foreign one, would be. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Alberta ombudsman, Randall Ivany, looked into complaints of despoliation and cultural genocide in 1984, and found no merit in them. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
Just about all the sins of American business (from environmental despoliation to accounting fraud) can be pinned on the anonymous bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [Sometimes it feels like...] Reference
Appropriately, we do not rely solely on the market to protect us from unsafe products and workplaces, or from despoliation of the environment. From Wordnik.com. [Competition And Innovation: Bedrock Of The American Economy] Reference
The despoliation of traditional Ogoni land in the Niger Delta inspired Saro-Wiwa to lead an international, nonviolent campaign targeting Shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon] Reference
What this means is that the accelerated production of oil sands is sure to be linked to environmental despoliation, pollution, and global warming. From Wordnik.com. [Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over] Reference
And many Nigerians will continue to blame the West's insatiable appetite for petroleum as the root cause of the despoliation of the Delta environment. From Wordnik.com. [Amb. John Campbell: Oil Pollution in the Niger Delta: Who's Fault?] Reference
Good heavens! shall such a cruel despoliation be permitted!. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference
Day and night the game went on without abatement, the game of despoliation. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
Don't I remember something about the despoliation of Alberta for oil shale?. From Wordnik.com. [Marketplace] Reference
Another despoliation of the landscape by Ontario's allegedly green government. From Wordnik.com. [David Frum] Reference
At no period was this despoliation more rife than in the time of which we write. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
At present he is working on a collection of poems centered on the despoliation the Niger Delta. From Wordnik.com. [Davao Blogspace] Reference
Besides this was the home of a prominent loyalist, protected from despoliation by high authority. From Wordnik.com. [My Lady of Doubt] Reference
The region has suffered years of neglect and despoliation of its environment and eco-system on account of oil prospecting. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguard] Reference
The ensanguined bones, with some fragments of the cartilage still adhering to them, showed that the despoliation had been recent. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference
So that by early education I was taught to think that the despoliation of the public, in certain ways, was a legitimate industry. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935] Reference
We should all be concerned about environmental despoliation and pollution, but the global warming crusade has become a hallucinatory cult. From Wordnik.com. [The AnarchAngel] Reference
"There are many and devious ways by which the law can be evaded and by which the despoliation of the public may be accomplished," said Selwyn. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935] Reference
The Query of your correspondent opens a tale of despoliation perhaps unparalleled even in the days of iconoclastic fury, and but very imperfectly known. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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